Any one else having Torsion bar slipage or do I just run my kit too hard?
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:15 am
Hey buddies,
It's been a while since I had time to play/dive my Leopard kit around but with the 4th of July coming here in the states, I got my kit ready for the neighborhood kids to paly with. I only gave them 12v battery (out of 48v max) to drive with for saftey reason so they couldn't have driven it too hard but for the 3rd time I had only 1 side of the sussy fail due to the stationary end of the torsion bar slipping under the 2x m6 bolts.
The first time it happened I assumed it was my fault as I was kinda super ginger about how I torqued the fasteners down at first, as I was building the kit without the instructions and I had to undo a few (lol, more than a few) bolts along the initial fitting of the major parts. But after the last re-fixing of my left drive sides tracks, I was pretty damn sure they wouldn't slip again but they did.
I'm thinking of grinding in flats for the m6 screws on the stationary steel cylinder.
So is this just a problem I'm having? Everything else on the tank has held up great, although I have not put on the delicate looking parts yet... oh and I have lost about a dozen rubber pads but that seems like normal wear and tear to me for the 2-3 hours of total drive time on the terran I have been driving it on.
It's been a while since I had time to play/dive my Leopard kit around but with the 4th of July coming here in the states, I got my kit ready for the neighborhood kids to paly with. I only gave them 12v battery (out of 48v max) to drive with for saftey reason so they couldn't have driven it too hard but for the 3rd time I had only 1 side of the sussy fail due to the stationary end of the torsion bar slipping under the 2x m6 bolts.
The first time it happened I assumed it was my fault as I was kinda super ginger about how I torqued the fasteners down at first, as I was building the kit without the instructions and I had to undo a few (lol, more than a few) bolts along the initial fitting of the major parts. But after the last re-fixing of my left drive sides tracks, I was pretty damn sure they wouldn't slip again but they did.
I'm thinking of grinding in flats for the m6 screws on the stationary steel cylinder.
So is this just a problem I'm having? Everything else on the tank has held up great, although I have not put on the delicate looking parts yet... oh and I have lost about a dozen rubber pads but that seems like normal wear and tear to me for the 2-3 hours of total drive time on the terran I have been driving it on.
