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    Eddie, I have some spare screws. That may be safer than potentially splitting the body posts from screws with a different pitch or width. I will bring Thurs.
    Tuning Action Items:
    — Lightly glue rear tires on wheels.
    — Carefully true off the treads on the stock/OEM rear tires.
    — Optionally- Replace front wheels with Slot.It alloy 15.8×8.2 wheels (W1580-8215A, W15808225A, WH1183, WH1184, WH1210) front tires with Slot.It SIPT15 17x10mm ZeroGrips
    — Add 3mm dia grub screws (Kings does Not have them) to the chassis pan to adjust body and skirt height to prevent hitting the track in the hairpin and hillclimb. See Russells earlier posts [11940][11930][11903]
    — Add 0.5mm spacer to guide shaft (to prevent pop-out de-slot in corners)
    — Adjust axle grub screws to barely fly the front tires 0.5 to 1mm (credit card) over track.
    — Experiment with adding 1-3gm weight in nose/guide area (prevent pop-out de-slot)
    — These must remain stock: body, chassis, pod, pinion, crown, motor, axles

    "... get on your bad motor scooter and ride!"
    Sammy with Montrose

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