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--CATEGORY-- General Information General Electric General Nitro HPI Savage Losi LST Sportwerks Mayhem Traxxas E. Rustler Traxxas E. Stampede Traxxas N. Rustler Traxxas N. Stampede Traxxas E-Maxx Traxxas T-Maxx Traxxas Revo --ARTICLE-- Ball Joints Brake Upgrades Bumper Adjustment Cut Wheels/Tires Exploded Views Forward Conversion Frequency Access Installing a Failsafe Metal-Gear Servos MIP CVD's Motor Head Swap Motor Swap Pullstart Conversion Receiver Pack Rerouting Fuel Line RPM Arms Servo Savers/Horns Shocks Shock Mounts Slipper Clutch Slipper Pegs Spare Screws Spur Gap Steel Spur Steering Bellcrank Throttle Bellcrank Throttle Return Spring Upgrades Work Stand |
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Bumper AdjustmentI often hear people who talk about how fragile the stock bulkhead is on the T-Maxx. While it's true that the T-Maxx is a heavy RC truck, and a hard enough crash or high jump can break the bulkhead, you can minimize your chances of this happening. When many people reinstall the bumpers to their truck, they think that they should fully tighten the screws that hold the bumper braces to the truck chassis. This is wrong. Tightening down the screws will prevent the bumper braces from flexing when they impact the ground, tree, or some other object. You want to leave you screws loose enough so that your bumpers easily flex upward about .5 to .75 of an inch. This allows the bumpers to cushion an impact instead of taking the full brunt force and passing it to the bulkheads. Likewise changing the stock plastic bumper braces for aluminum braces are a bad move as well. Aluminum will not flex, it just bends. Therefore aluminum braces will not help absorb the impact, but rather transfer the force of the impact to another component on the truck. This is usually the bulkheads. Below are some pictures demonstrating the bumper being allowed to flex.
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