r/rccrawler

How many rigs do you pack with you?

This is the Redcat Ascent 18 Scout ii. I just changed out it's shocks yesterday to the INJORA 59mm Long Threaded Oil Shocks with 25wt oil and it's having extremely poor rebound. When I turn my RC while driving, it leans and then stay leaned.

It does this with and without all the acessories on the car.

Things that I have already done to troubleshoot:

- removed all the oil and refilled it + bleed out all the air

- tried new

softer and stiffer springs

- ran it without oil (still does the same thing without oil in the shocks)

- adjusted the preload to all types of heights

- ran it without all the top heavy acessories

- oiled the O-rings

- loosened the cap where the O-ring is

Any help or advice or criticism is appreciated. I'm desperate, please help!!

Finally got this thing out in the creek!

Ordered a Treal SCX10 Pro aluminum front axle housing with brass diff cover for a deal. This is what I got.

Fitted some scx24 Meus V2 isokinetic to my FCX24M. Meus sell a reverse gear set for their mullet setup with is needed to run normal axles on a fcx24m. Bonus is you can also get an overdrive for the front.

Needed some link adjustments. Rear upper needed to be longer. Front driveshaft was too short, so fitted the stock plastic one, which I think is the stock rear.

As the axles are worm gear is massively reduced top speed. FCX uses a pinion which is a 2:1 ratio whereas the Meus worm is like a 8:1 (don’t know exactly). I’m also running brushless, so the reduction is speed as sort of brought it back to a stock speed. But with a lot more control.

Extra bonus: this means you can run better servos. Now have an injora one. The waterproof 7kg (of the top of my head)

Need to get it one some rocks for some proper testing!

By far easiest motor upgrade ive done to date

What would cause this? This happens multiple times per battery and im about to throw the titan in the trash.

edit: long ending to show battery is not nearly dead

Built this for my buddy’s son. He is turning 5. Our families do a lot of camping together..pretty sure we are gonna have some crawl parades around the campground.

I’ve had it for 4 months and about a week ago whenever I get half speed it starts sputtering and almost like it bounces

Not even got them all in, and have no idea how I’m gonna keep this clean. I really don’t want to punch and holes in the body.