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Anyone else here running a MERV? I recently re-acquired my old mini Slash from a buddy and am in the process of turning it into a mini E-Revo. I had a lot of fun with the mini Slash but want something a bit more stable and better at bashing (huge jumps). My friend had done zero maintenance on it, so a complete tear down to clean it and inspect it was in order. Diffs were completely dry so I filled em up with some 50k diff oil. Shocks also need to be re-filled. I'm still waiting for more parts before I can really start work on it, though. This project has kind of put my RC10 build on hold because I want to get some bashing time in before summer is over. Below is a pic of cleaned up chassis and starting point.

Finally got some time to work on this. Installed RPM a-arms, RPM front and rear bumpers, aluminum turnbuckles and push rods, and all the other Traxxas parts needed to convert over to a Revo (driveshafts, pinion and spur gear, wing mount, and wing.) Next comes the rims and tires, and then trimming and painting the body.

I had a lot of fun with mine but ultimately had to get rid of it because of broken diffs. It didn't matter how gentle I tried to be with the thing, if I plugged some batteries in and turned on the controller - a diff was breaking. Got pretty good at swapping them, but it's still not a quick process. Just got tired of putting time and money into it - got a full size Revo to bash instead. Eventually got rid of the Revo for a RC8Te to bash - best move ever.

Hope you have more luck than I did!!

Rob -

Diffs are still fine and it's been run a lot as a Slash, but I know the bigger tires will add more strain. Did you ever shim the diffs? I read up on the problems with the diffs and ended up adding some shims to tighten the ring and pinion gear up a little bit, we'll see how it works. I can see how tearing it apart every time to fix a diff would really be a pain, it's a complicated little machine. I've got pretty much everything done except for painting the body. Here's some pics with the new rims and tires (Proline Dirt Hawgs and DE racing rims).

thats nice