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Looks awesome so far

Just ordered 8, should be here tuesday hopefully P.S. you bastards!

With an increased gear ratio you should find that it is slower with more torque.

I thought it was the small cylinder, not the pump that was the problem.

What are you trying to do to me people? I love these tyres so much I think i'm waving bye bye to total lego purism and bye bye to my money too

Forget your internally geared motors, this beast performs great with a 5f+1r tranny (and is rather heavy!) It's been dismantled for at least ten years tho, I can do much better now

Oh man do I love those tyres! Anyway, in the past I have strengthened UJs by tightly wrapping fine sewing thread around the ends. Makes the ends very strong.

Those UJs running along the centre are actually under the most stress because they are providing force to two UJs per axle with less than a 1:2 differencial gear reduction (20:28 is a tiny reduction for a diff), yet another gripe I have with their parts designs

When the pressure reaches a certain point, do you want it to release all the pressure from the tank and then automaticly reset or just let a little bit out to maintain a certain pressure?

By type is better because you can see what colour it is at the smallest glance I find.

Looks like you have almost as many axles, bushes, and pins in your collection as I do, it took ages to sort them all

So what are you saying? If someone disagrees with your opinion on what's good or bad they are either narrow minded or just trolling? Sounds kinda narrow minded to me I don't like it. That does not mean I have to have a problem with people who disagree with me because I don't, so lets keep it friendly shall we?

And you say you want to put portal axles on it? Surely the axles you have are better.

That's business. I guess they want to pursuade you to buy the whole set, not just the new motors. Does everything Scottish have to have the word "mac" in it?

I have mixed feelings on it. I'm very glad for the new servos, i've been asking for them for a long time and now they are here it's great and I am very greatful! However the model itself is just too inauthentic mechanicly. Whoever heard of a 4x4 like this having an engine mounted inside the axle itself. The motors should be under the hood (we could have also had a fake engine). And because of this the axles are huge, almost the same diameter of the tyre, and so the rolling chassis neither works or looks authentic (also for the poor geometry pointed out by nicjasno. At least in the unimog it was mechnicily similar to real life). The body looks cool but also like nothing special and too busy. A set like 8880 just gave you all the lines of a supercar and so there was nothing to destract your eye from the beautifully sculpted lines (impressively done with just studded beams and hinge plates). In 9398 however your eyes are drawn all over the place. The seats look like child booster seats and again no working steering wheel (a flip up body is no excuse ). I've said this before but when I look at sets like 8880 and 8480 I really do get the feeling that the designers are not given as much time as they used to get to design these sets, and so i'm not blaming the designers, it's higher up I think.

I go for whichever looks/works best. In the 8868 (see my avatar) instructions, a fairly critical pulley wheel turns from one size to another the very next page after it is implemented.

You're gonna need to make a bigger boat!

TBH, the chassis of the "crawler" also looks like it came straight out of a MOC, plain and simple!

Should be fine if it works like most other RC servos. The internal motor will have power given to it until the output shaft reaches it's required destination. At that point power is cut from the motor and it stops where it is. When the control stick on the transmitter is released and allowed to go back to centre, all the other motors would stop, but the servo starts and goes back to centre, and then stops. So no more stalled motors and precise control, perfect for pneumatic switches and so on.

Better? Yes. Ideal? Don't know. The V2 reciever has been beefed up to handle 2 L-motors on one port. I don't know how the power consumption of the L-motor compares to the XL-motor. It has also not been said weather or not the V2 receiver can handle 4 L-motors in total (2 per port). I would think that the current limits of the battery pack could come into play here. Also, what about RC buggy motors?

I think it's to do with power consumption. The new reciever can provide more power and can safely power two L-motor from one port, whereas the older versions could not without putting too much stress on some internal electrical components.

This seems relevant: http://technicbricks.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Prototypes

I wonder if this increased power capability will better serve the power needs of the RC buggy motor?

Speaking of which, remember this post I made last year? Gosh darn it, damb you internal motor gearing!!!!!