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My new toy...
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:43 pm
by skylinekid
...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

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:18 pm
by sg219
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!!!!

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:10 am
by crazydave
That was a sweet deal. My MLST is shelved until I can afford to put more speed in it, so I'm jealous.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:45 pm
by skylinekid
Thanks Guys!!!!!
Thanks for that tip SG, I'll make sure to keep my eyes open!

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:52 pm
by skylinekid
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

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:45 am
by SHAUN
Wow, you cant drive worth a shit.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:36 am
by skylinekid
No, It's called I'm not afraid to drive my LST and beat the living shit outta her

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:15 am
by crazydave
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...

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:35 am
by skylinekid
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

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:31 pm
by crazydave
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?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:29 pm
by stampede_dude
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

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:46 pm
by payaso
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

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:11 am
by skylinekid
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

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:46 pm
by skylinekid
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:35 am
by skylinekid