Post Pics of what Ruined your Trial Day HERE!

[GoSpeedRCerGo]

I think this would be an interesting thread to start.

Rules: Post a Picture of what and describe how (if known) things broke on your rig(s) and caused the fun to stop and the search for missing parts in the dirt, or worse, it made you go home.

I'll go first!

I Loosened the screw that held in my steering linkage after smacking into rocks and sand. In a "spur of the moment" reverse 180 my rig barrel rolled and landed with one wheel straight and the other, well.. not, . I had no replacement on hand I so had to find it. Found it 5 mins later after following my most recent tire tracks



Your turn!

[o0wiz0o]

Same here ish... 1 mile into a 6 mile trek. Had to lug the beast round the other 5. Mine had a small stress crack in the knuckle which i thought i had reinforced..obviously not. Ally upgrade on the way. :-)

[GoSpeedRCerGo]

Originally Posted by o0wiz0o

Same here ish... 1 mile into a 6 mile trek. Had to lug the beast round the other 5. Mine had a small stress crack in the knuckle which i thought i had reinforced..obviously not. Ally upgrade on the way. :-)

With the wheels like that it looks like its saying what's wrong! what did I do!?

[Calderwood]

[lonleycreeper]

Smoked my fxr 15 min into a 4hr crawl fest. Fortunatly I brought my Cco1 and the car was only a 5min walk.

[arctichorse]

A year or so I had a horse chase the crawler and step on it because it didn't like it when it moved and broke the knuckles and body post mounts, surprisingly, those were the only things that broke.

[Fletch24]

Hahah mine is exactly the same, spent $160 on upgrades and break a stock knuckle :(

[z50king]

Seems a lot of steering knuckles break

[Tonysmini]

We had a big impromptu meet last year so I thought I'd give everything a good run out.

Two Tamiya Dagger chassis trucks lasted less that five minutes after the kids drove through water and the bottom turned out to be silt like quicksand. I had to wade in and grope into the slime to find them. Motors knackered.

The third Wild Dagger took a tumble down a 50ft rocky gully and smashed two wheels, one knuckle and buckled three shocks. My Dingo blew it's steering servo, my Wroncho stripped the rear axle ring gear, my SCX10 recovery truck snapped the rear prop, and my Exo Terra skidded a rock and buckled the front toe block.

I drove three hours to this meet and had broken this lot in less than an hour.

Luckily my Wraith proved to be trustworthy and took the next three hours bashing without skipping a beat.

[o0wiz0o]

Wow that was a costly trip!

[z50king]

I changed the battery and the power wire came off the speed control post. This is the first time any of my soldering has given my problems. Probably because I soldered the wire, the capacitor, and the bec to the same place

[Liv4rc]

Broken Homemade front lower link. I am sure my poor driving skills helped.

[Twisted Nuts]

Beef tubes didn't save me this time! Lol

[Drail]

top motor screw backed out and well the HD slipper held up outstanding i have broke alot of parts...Alot but this was a first..swaped the junk 23tooth for a fresh 20tooth and away we go Drail

[canadianbacon]

This was over a year ago, but it was kind of cold that morning, stock shock cap didn't feel like cooperating anymore.

[GoSpeedRCerGo]

Bump, Any new stories...?

[lrhsr]

guess i need to take pictures when mine breaks!

[gottorque]

Alrighty, so it was around 20* outside and I had been running the truck for hours already. Buddy was doing doughnuts on the icy pavement with his brushless 10+lb wraith and he got the thing spinning pretty fast. We were just messing around and I drove my jeep into his spinning wraith and it caught....ended up ripping my drivers side front link and shock mounts off the housing. Luckily, i did this after we finished the run

Brittle plastic and spinning monster of a wraith never really ends well.


Old truck, but slightly interesting.

Got the front tire bound up pretty bad and instead of backing up, i gassed it. Thanks to 141:1 final gear reduction I ripped the whole shock tower off the frame.


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Other than stupid stuff like a blown trans and the drive shaft falling off repeatedly, ive been pretty lucky with both my SCX and wraith

[Hirschowl]

Broke the steering knuckle on its maiden voyage into the real world. It broke about 20 min into the run. It is probably due to cold temps, the 3 foot fall off a log onto a rock, or the the high torque ouput of the servo. I knew that this was the weak link in the steering. Now I guess I have to upgrade...

[billj]

Boy, its like a broken record.....