Just to start off I’ll mention I’m somewhat of a newb to building esk8’s. This is my second build.
So what I think happened was I possibly used screws/bolts that were too short and that put more stress on the hypertruck lite truck and after just a few miles one of the holes is completely stripped, another one is a little stripped i think. I went to pick up my board and the whole drivetrain slanted sideways… great!
I thought it was just because I didnt loctite anything but unfortunately when I took the truck off my deck today I discovered the stripped hole(s)…
So attempting to make the best outcome from this shitty situation, I got some longer bolts and installed them with red loctite. I also added an anti sink plate.
I’m letting the loctite cure for 24 hours before testing anything. Fingers crossed it all holds up…
I may need to eventually purchase a new hypertruck lite truck to truly fix this problem. Any insight into what I may have done to strip it would be appreciated, as I would like to know what I did wrong and how i can avoid this happening again if I purchase a new truck.
Im not using any rubber “riser pads” between the truck and the deck, but I didnt think that’d be a problem…
Im 220 pounds, am I possibly too heavy for hypertruck lites? I wish the truck design were where it allowed the bolt to fully extrude through the bottom of the truck to where you would fasten a nut to the bolt, then I wouldn’t be dealing with this stripped truck nonsense.
Any comments/insights are appreciated.
-Nicolas
