jaysyourhandyman
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is there a strength difference from stock to aluminum?
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thanks for all the great infopipeous said:Hop ups are good and bad. I personally won't use aluminum lower arms on anything because you have to have something that breaks in a crash. arms are cheap and easy to replace. if aluminum, you end up ripping apart bulkheads and/or ripping suspension pin holders, bending suspension pins. I will boil my lower arms in water to help in durability (most plastic parts benefit from this)
aluminum is good for places you don't want flex, like hinge pin retainers, the gear plate, dif locations, motor mounts, bearing carriers and such.
just think, if I have aluminum here and I crash, and the aluminum won't break, what will it take out instead.... and will the aluminum bend because you can't really bend it back or it gets weak in that spot and will bend easier next time
i was told about 10 mncable97526 said:How long would you reccomend boiling the parts for? I remember the days of old with the traxxas hawk with the white nylon arms we used to dye blue and whenever we acheived the color we wanted we pulled them out.
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