Hinge pins! too brittle?

grahama89 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2005 14:33:49

Your not going to believe this Adam but I've been using Hyper7 pins since the first Xray one snaped on me. They do have the e clip grooves in but they are the perfect length and I've not snaped one since.

Booyah · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2005 15:01:26

FreakOfNature · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2005 16:30:08

nitrotrax · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2005 21:52:17

Hey Showtime

I've recently brought the Lunsford MP777 titanium kit for mine seems to be holding out ok after the abuse at Maxbashing had broke the spring steele ones aswell.

See ya

Dan

AKA dan182uk

showtime · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2005 22:59:32

i have a load of new MP7.5 ones i can try for length so i may be able to use those :roll:

wouldn't mind finding a reliable alternative turnbuckle too!
i have heard a few people say the lunsfords last well :wink:

oh yeah & Alex, how did we know you were going to say Hyper :roll:

LOL

grahama89 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2005 23:43:29

Chris · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 05:39:44

Booyah · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 13:23:15

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Chris · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 23:41:47

Yeah, unbreakable sounds good to me Booyah, but then they wouldn't make any money off of us from parts. :evil:

My front right lower inner pin, and my rear left outer pin have both broken on my car. The front snapped about 12mm from the front end of the pin, and the rear pin was a similar break at the end of the pin.

The rear pin breaking was no surprise cause is was a terrible sideways landing that would have broken any car. But the front just broke, no hard crash or bad landing that i saw it break on.

Sorry, no pic.

Mike Dana · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 00:14:54

Chris · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 04:01:50

showtime · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 08:34:00

grahama89 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:41:18

Chris · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 17:25:09

My rear arms developed slop quickly. They were nice and tight for a short time when they were new, but now they wobble badly. Happened to my friends car too. they are shimed so there is no play on the pin, but the holes on the arm are wearing quickly. Anyone else had this happen??
Front arms still tight, no slop, just rear arms.

slim · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 19:04:25

wow that aint right, do you run on a abrasive dirt?

z-man · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2005 20:57:14

ya ive never heard of that either :shock:

Chris · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2005 01:36:12

Yeah, i guess that's it. I run on an outdoor track, and it gets fairly dusty.
It makes sense now, fine dust particles must get in the pivot holes and cause a sandpaper effect.

But now that i think about it, it never happened on any of my other cars.
They had slop in them after a much longer period of time.

mario · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2005 15:24:11

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