My new toy...

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:43 pm

...I had been saving for about a month to buy a Mini LST and when i was on eBay the other day this one had just "called out to me"!!!! I went and created an account and placed a bid on it. When I got on the computer today i saw that I had won and was overjoyed. I right away Paypaled away $200 to the seller and am expecting it to be here in a week!!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I think I got a pretty good deal, since everything there is worth $250ish and I only payed $200

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:18 pm

Sweet.

I'll still whoop your ass with one Mamba 6800 and beat ass bearing.

No, really. Have fun. I've beat the shit out of my MLST and have put many replacement plastic parts on it since I've bought it. It still goes great.

Please pay attention to the hinge pins if and when you break the truck down. There are 2 different sizes. The jackasses at LOSI don't and won't tell you about. The proper placement is key to breaking less parts.

Happy bashing!!!!

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:10 am

That was a sweet deal. My MLST is shelved until I can afford to put more speed in it, so I'm jealous.

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:45 pm

Thanks Guys!!!!!

Thanks for that tip SG, I'll make sure to keep my eyes open!

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:52 pm

Well i've bashed and crashed and broke lots of parts

I've probably spent near $50 on Losi Plastic allready. Everytime I try to save somne cash to upgrade it, I get about half of it saved and then break the truck and spend all my saved cash on stock replacments.

I have rebuilt all 3 diffs and packed them with gear grease and earlyer today I rebuilt all the shocks, just before my run. I'm still waitin g on the free wheel hexes and diffs that Losi is sending me ( Just call 1-888-899-LOSI and ask for a Mini LST upgrade kit, and in under 2 minutes it will be shipped off for free. It consists of the diffs and wheel hexes

)

Today I broke the right front upper and lower arms, I laughed for a bit as all that was holding my wheel to the car was the shock. I just had to take a picture to show you guys, and then I fixed it up and took some more pics of her

She's basicly stock except for the 24T pinion gear and 50T spur gear.

Pics....

Crashed

Fixed

Enjoy, all comments and concerns welcome

SHAUN · Post by **SHAUN** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:45 am

Wow, you cant drive worth a shit.

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:36 am

No, It's called I'm not afraid to drive my LST and beat the living shit outta her

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:15 am

skylinekid wrote:Well i've bashed and crashed and broke lots of parts

I've probably spent near $50 on Losi Plastic allready. Everytime I try to save somne cash to upgrade it, I get about half of it saved and then break the truck and spend all my saved cash on stock replacments.

See that's exactly what would happen to me when I running 1/10th scale cars, and the reason why I'm afraid to run my MLST now.

I gotta know, what are you guys doing to break your cars so much? I mean trying to jump mine indoors, I was taking some pretty hard smacks, and I've only dented the body... Its gotta be the extra speed, because you did get those faster motors with it.

Shit man I'm see too many broken MLSTs on them intranets. Now I'm not only afraid to run mine, but I'm afraid to hop up the speed.

Ya know, I've been checking out the RC18B, I'm thinking smaller wheels means less stress on the driveline...

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:35 am

Well the way I broke the Arms was that I was running it from far, far away and going to turn it around to comeback to me and it was supposed to go around a tree, the wheel/arms had caught the tree and the LST got yanked around and then it would barly move, so i ran up to it and started laughing

I haven't put the fireballs in the LST as they would require tonnes of modification to fit, all new motor mounts and all, so I decided to save up for a Mamba Brushless setup

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:31 pm

skylinekid wrote:I haven't put the fireballs in the LST as they would require tonnes of modification to fit, all new motor mounts and all, so I decided to save up for a Mamba Brushless setup

Can't you just drill new mounting holes?

stampede_dude · Post by **stampede_dude** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:29 pm

crazydave wrote:
skylinekid wrote:Well i've bashed and crashed and broke lots of parts

I've probably spent near $50 on Losi Plastic allready. Everytime I try to save somne cash to upgrade it, I get about half of it saved and then break the truck and spend all my saved cash on stock replacments.
See that's exactly what would happen to me when I running 1/10th scale cars, and the reason why I'm afraid to run my MLST now.

I gotta know, what are you guys doing to break your cars so much? I mean trying to jump mine indoors, I was taking some pretty hard smacks, and I've only dented the body... Its gotta be the extra speed, because you did get those faster motors with it.

Shit man I'm see too many broken MLSTs on them intranets. Now I'm not only afraid to run mine, but I'm afraid to hop up the speed.
Ya know, I've been checking out the RC18B, I'm thinking smaller wheels means less stress on the driveline...

Quick Two Step Fix:
1-sell losi
2-buy associated

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:46 pm

stampede_dude wrote:
crazydave wrote:
skylinekid wrote:Well i've bashed and crashed and broke lots of parts

I've probably spent near $50 on Losi Plastic allready. Everytime I try to save somne cash to upgrade it, I get about half of it saved and then break the truck and spend all my saved cash on stock replacments.
See that's exactly what would happen to me when I running 1/10th scale cars, and the reason why I'm afraid to run my MLST now.

I gotta know, what are you guys doing to break your cars so much? I mean trying to jump mine indoors, I was taking some pretty hard smacks, and I've only dented the body... Its gotta be the extra speed, because you did get those faster motors with it.

Shit man I'm see too many broken MLSTs on them intranets. Now I'm not only afraid to run mine, but I'm afraid to hop up the speed.
Ya know, I've been checking out the RC18B, I'm thinking smaller wheels means less stress on the driveline...
Quick Two Step Fix:
1-sell losi
2-buy associated

I concur....

silla

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:11 am

crazydave wrote:
skylinekid wrote:I haven't put the fireballs in the LST as they would require tonnes of modification to fit, all new motor mounts and all, so I decided to save up for a Mamba Brushless setup
Can't you just drill new mounting holes?

The mounts would have had to be about a mm closer to the pinion so i would have one really big hole on the top and almost no material between the pinions hole and the motor mounts. It all seemed doable but a very unstable thing. I might hand make a new mount later on in life

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:46 pm

My ESC and Battery Pack have gone up to that Mini LST in the sky

Losi Promised me new ones after I sent in the burnt up ones

I hope they don't break that promise

skylinekid · Post by **skylinekid** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:35 am

Losi sucks

They sent me parts, THE WRONG PARTS!!!!!! I got my batt pack back, but instead of a ESC i got another reciver

I was oo pissed and agravated to try to get Losi to send me the right stuff so I just spent (blew) $120 on a Mamba competion pack with the 6800 motor and some deans ultra connectors from www.b-p-p.com. I have them being shipped to my temporary home in Canada and my Truck in in Germany, and I'm in Hungary, going to Serbia tommorow. I'm also getting some random parts like dish wheels and some alloy sent to Canada for me so when I get there I can bot on some parts and have a REALLY fast Mini LST

I get back to Canada at the end of August so then I will have some pictures of the new setup.