Pick up an YXL - Need a few pointers

[pbsandman7]

What's up everyone. I just picked up a used XL from a friend with a ton of spare parts, all stock unfortunately. I've spent the last couple days reading and searching; I try to keep forum newbie educate up so i'm not asking a million questions

Here's where i'm at to get this thing set up. I'll only be running it on 3s for now since it came with a couple batteries.
I plan to buy a front Bulkhead from either HR or GPM.. torn between the two and can't decide which way to go honestly.
I would also get the Bellcrank and steering parts from the same location so its all by the same brand.

3 bearing mod
New Bearings - Fast eddy
Maybe HD gears - undecided if its really necessary. Thoughts?

I assume I can't go wrong with either HR or GPM.. do you guys have a preference for any reason or am i good either way? I like GPMs color options too vs only black..

Lastly, looking at GPMs website for the steering bellcrank, is there a full kit available? It looks like you buy it in pieces?

Thanks for the help guys.

[Spunkybob]

Hey man! Welcome to the love affair you are about to embark on with the yeti XL.

From the list of things you want to do our yetis will be about the same.

I have the kit one so I already have HD gears.

My mod list so far is the GPM front housing, rear drive shaft and bellcrank with RPM front arms.

3 bearing mod front and rear.

As far as hot racing vs GPM, the quality is about the same (good) but I prefer the GPM parts as I like the look better and for the rear axle id get the RC4WD one as its already confirmed as modded for the HD gears and look spot on.

I have only run mine on 3s and my gears front and rear still look reasonably new.

Ps.. this subforum is reasonably dead unfortunately :-(

I suggest getting on this Facebook group as it's way more active.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1504892906429813

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[pbsandman7]

Thanks man for the welcome and replying. A couple yrs ago I was on here when it was more active but I ended up buying an Hpi Baja and completely modifying it instead. But here I am hooked again.

I was leaning more towards the gpm mods as well, quality looks good and I like the color options as well. What has me confused with gpm is their bellcrank setup.. dhawk sells a full assembly that looks nice! Gpm looks to sell the assembly but you have to buy the parts separately to make it complete. Is that correct or am I looking at it incorrectly.
I see the steering mount, posts and assembly all sold individually. Is that what’s needed to upgrade the bellcrank or am I doing this wrong. Ha
Thanks

[Spunkybob]

With the GPM parts you need to.buy the bellcrank, posts and connecting bit separately.

I already had the cross bit from a cheap company called TFL on eBay so I just got the bellcrank and posts from gpm.

https://www.gpmparts.com/axial-racin...-90068837.html

https://www.gpmparts.com/axial-racin...-90068835.html

https://www.gpmparts.com/axial-racin...-90072709.html

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[pbsandman7]

Ya I’ll be ordering up these parts real soon. The steering has so much slop in it and a fairly poor turning radius from it. Looks like a little bit of wheel wobble too up front.

If you had to do it over again would you stay with gpm or go with a dhawk bellcrank set up?
100% will be getting a gpm bulkhead either way.

[Spunkybob]

Originally Posted by pbsandman7

If you had to do it over again would you stay with gpm or go with a dhawk bellcrank set up?
100% will be getting a gpm bulkhead either way.

Can't say.. I don't know anything about the dhawk bellcrank but the GPM one works well enough.

I have a 29kg (1000oz) servo which is A LOT for any rc and the GPM one has been great.

The cheap integy servo horn on the other hand was crap and stripped out after only about 20 batteries.



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