Salt Lake Mini-Z Club Forum

I’ve finally got my truck back together in working order.   I also made a few upgrades to it as well as I wasn’t really happy with the way it was handling.  My battery was also starting to die as it wouldn’t charge up to capacity and wouldn’t last very long.

I found a great deal on a 8.4v 1000mah lipo  so I purchased one for mine to test it out.   I ended up putting deans ultra plugs on it and my ESC as the original connectors were different.     After testing it out I also purchased another one for Cygens truck, but it’s not here yet.   To go with the lipo I ordered a couple of Low Voltage Buzzer Alarms to use in conjunction with the lipo batteries as to not damage them.

I went through the truck and changed out  one of the rear axle shafts that was bent.  The shocks that I have on it were pretty much a joke,   the springs were too hard and although they were oil shocks (at least for a minute or two, until the oil all leaked out) they just weren’t right.    I cleaned out the remaining oil,  and used some “jade jizz” grease to coat the inside of the shock for some dampening.  The “Jade Jizz” is a mini-z dampening grease to that should help me right??  I also changed the springs out to some softer ones I had.  Anyway it seems to handle a lot better,  I guess we’ll see tomorrow.

I also need to look at how Luke did his sway bars,  I was thinking about doing that as well.   His truck just seems to handle much better than the others.   :frusty:

We also got mikes truck all done with the steering mod and installed the fireball motor,  so we'll have both trucks running tomorrow.   :flex:

Love my truck, thanks Brian! Cant wait for the bodies to come in!  :D