XDEEDUBBX's build thread

[Keith81]

I love seeing the redcat come out of the box, brings back memories to me of when I got my first MT... hehe

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

This is by far my most favorite RC vehicle I've ever owned, even better than my tyco 9.6v bandit LOL

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

bad news, throttle servo just went out. Steering servo works fine but throttle and brakes won't engage. Just spoke with redcat and they will be sending me out a new one! Gotta love their customer service!

 

[fluxn81]

Time to upgrade.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

what do you recommend flux?

 

[fluxn81]

http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/c.885035/n.1/it.A/id.2550/.f

 

[Deluge]

Or...

Hitec HS-645MG Throttle Servo

Hitec HS-5645MG Digital Throttle Servo w/ Metal Gears

Either one of those will work.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

thanks guys, I will be looking forward to one of those.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

I received my jetpro pipe in today directly from jetpro. Dino is a cool guy and shipping was very fast. Started to install it today and noticed something wrong:







Can you guys see the problem? The pipe is perfectly fine and the finish is awesome but looks like redcat themselves goofed up. They installed the gas tank the wrong way. The pipe is hitting the top of the gas cap. So now I have to pull the diff and the driveshaft out cause it goes through the gas tank.

What's the easiest way to pull the driveshaft out so that I can flip the gas tank around the other way? Any info would help..

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

oh and here's a pic of it mounted without the body cut out yet.



this things takes up my whole kitchen counter lol.. please help!

 

[Guest]

You do need to reverse the fuel tank. Its not as bad as you might think. Take the whole rear suspension out by removing the screws under the dif. Then you can slide the tank out and turn it around.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

thanks dad, so you are refering to the screws under the chassis correct?

You do need to reverse the fuel tank. Its not as bad as you might think. Take the whole rear suspension out by removing the screws under the dif. Then you can slide the tank out and turn it around.

 

[Guest]

Yes. Sorry I get ahead of myself and always assume that everyone knows I'm thinking.LOL

 

[Guest]

Here you can see it does fit the same when turned around. I think the older versions came the tank the other way. Jetpro would not have designed a pipe that blocked the cap.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

funny, when I called up jetpro and told them about the issue he was pissed off at redcat LOL

 

[GTS 666]

They obviously changed it around because the redcat pipe runs on the other side to the jetpro. And it's east to burn your self.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

hopefully my replacement throttle servo will come in tomorrow so I can start working on it and get it running by the weekend..its so sad to just see it there and I can't even run it... =(

Thanks for all the help

 

[Deluge]

Nice. Gotta love the all black beadlocks.

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

Thanks RCDAD for the advice, it helped out a lot! If you didn't inform me I wouldhave taken the whole rear assembly apart! LOL.



Look! Fuel cell in the correct position now!

 

[XDEEDUBBX]

deluge,

Glad you noticed that! I couldn't stand all that chrome on the wheels!