CRC Carpet Knife Xti User manual

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Carpet Knife Xti
Transverse Battery Mounting Kit
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It will be helpful to you to have your original Xti manual available to you during this conversion build. If for some reason you no longer have
your manual, you can download and print one out for free at www.teamcrc.com.
DISASSEMBLY
To start the conversion, remove the rear pod top plate, rear tweak plate, center top
deck, and all parts associated with these pieces (i.e. center shock, damper tubes, rear
body mounts, etc.) You will also need to remove your battery, but it may or may not be
necessary to remove the rest of your electronics, depending on where you had them
mounted. When you’re finished, you should be left with something that looks similar to
the drawing to the right. (front body posts and servo can remain in the car as well as the
two red low-profile balls on the rear bottom plate.)
ASSEMBLY
Begin assembly with the bolt-on link mounts. Insert two 4-40 x 5/16” flat head screws [1] up through the chassis holes shown in the diagram
and thread them into the link mount brackets [2]. Do not fully tighten these two screws yet. Now, insert two more of the 5/16” screws up
through the link mount [3] and thread into the link mount bracket [2]. Now that all four screws are started into the link mount bracket, you
can fully snug these down. over tighten these or you risk cracking the graphite. These screws thread into this part for a precision,
play-free fit, and are not meant to be tightened down extremely tight. Now that these four screws are lightly snugged down, tighten the red
4-40 locknuts [4] down onto the screws to completely lock the mounting plate in place.
DO NOT
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4-40 x 5/16”
FH steel
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Front of Car
Flat Side
to front
Rear sticks out
more than front
Red Locknut
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ASSEMBLY CONTINUED...
If you haven’t already removed them, remove the
red low-profile balls from the chassis and move
them out to the holes in the link mount plates as
shown. You will need to remove the 2-56 button
head clamping screws from the links that you
removed from your inline Xti and install them into the
new, longer links [5] that come with this kit, but
AFTER snapping the links onto the balls.
You will now need to “reset” your center pivot. Do
this by following the instructions on the bottom of
page 2 in your Xti Manual.
One-Piece
Side Links
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Flat Side to
center of car
Screw in from
this side
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TWEAK PLATE ASSEMBLY
Next you will need to remove the body posts, red low-profile balls, and
side springs from your inline tweak plate and re-install them on the new
transverse tweak plate [6]. The side springs will thread into the outer
holes on the tweak plate, and can be seen better in the diagram below
for mounting the tweak plate.
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ASSEMBLY CONTINUED...
Next, install the plastic battery bumpers [7] as shown. You will use the two 4-40 x 1/4” flat
head screws that were removed from the hex standoffs for the center top deck. The inner
plastic pins on the battery bumpers will sit into a hole toward the center of the chassis.
The outer plastic pin will key into a notch on the outside of the chassis, but will not be in a
complete closed hole.
Install the plastic antenna / shock mount [8] in the holes shown using the two included 4-
40 x 3/8” flat head screws [9]. Thread the red 4-40 ball stud [10] into the rear hole of the
antenna mount, and insert the antenna into the front hole of the mount. Use the included
4-40 x 1/8” set screw [11] to lock the antenna into the mount.
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COMPLETING ASSEMBLY
Last, re-install your rear top plate and damper tubes as shown
to the left, and then re-intall your center shock.
REMEMBER to squeeze the ball cup of the center shock over
the rear top plate ball with pliers and not press down on the
shock with your hand. For the front ball on the antenna mount,
you will need to press straight down on the with your
hand or a wrench handle,
ball cup
do not press on the shock body.