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By Brandon on October 15, 2010
I have been having a blast with my Axial SCX10 Honcho kit for about a year now and thought I would share everything I have done to it.
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By Bender on September 15, 2010
The 2010 R/C Rock Crawling Nationals, one of the biggest annual R/C rock crawling events, was held on Sept. 9-12th in Disney, Oklahoma. This event is an invite only competition so to get in, you have to either be the best in your local club to earn an invite or win one of the several [...]
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By Bender on September 1, 2010
For this last installment of our XR10 build, I will cover the assembly of the beadlock wheels. This wheel is a completely new design. It is a true beadlock wheel, but it only requires the removal of 6 screws to change your tires. You can tune your foam or change the weight inside your wheels [...]
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By Bender on August 30, 2010
For this installment of our XR10 build, I will cover the assembly of the chassis and link installation.
First thing’s first, tear open Bag “G” and dump it’s contents into your parts tray.
Grab your front axle and a pair of upper suspension links. Slide the long 30mm screw through the ears, and rod ends, in the [...]
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By Bender on August 27, 2010
For this installment of our XR10 build, I will cover link and shock assembly.
To get started we will need Bag “E”, part’s tree #AX80059 (2) and parts tree #AX80057.
Here you can see all the parts that make up one of the front lower links.
First thing we’ll do is thread the long 16mm set screw into [...]
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By Bender on August 26, 2010
Here’s the 2nd installment of our step by step XR10 build. This post will cover proper assembly of the rear axle.
First step, open Bag “C” and dump it into your part’s tray. Building the rear axle is very similar to the front, especially the gear box assembly.
Now grab the required parts for step 15.
Install 2 [...]
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By Bender on August 26, 2010
Now that the XR10’s are starting to hit distributors, we figured that it was a good time to do a step-by-step build of the new kit with pictures and detailed descriptions. This will serve as a guide for a basic XR10 build by the kit instructions. While it is relatively a straight forward build, there [...]
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By Brandon on August 17, 2010
Here is a cool tip for those who like to wrench on things a lot, or just like to run all the same tricks that the Team Drivers use. To help ease the time it takes to separate the axles and gearbox’s, you can cut a small notch in the AX30557 Gear Case Plate.
I [...]
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By Brandon on August 16, 2010
With the XR10’s starting to arrive in the hands of our loyal consumers, I figured it would be a good time to share some tips, tricks, and precautions on the rear axle assembly.
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By Brandon on August 10, 2010
Thought it would be great to share my XR10 setup that I ran at WCC for you guys preparing their parts and starting to think about your own setups before the kits arrive. Let me start by explaining that the XR10’s that Scott, Brad, and myself ran at WCC were all pre-production and at [...]
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