how to EASILY upgrade the weapon motor

i just upgraded my weapon motor, from the slow, weak stock piece of poop, to a DKS monkey rotor, and with my darkside rotor for drive power, my raise tiger bit char-g is wicked fast and strong!!!!! i havent even dual celled the truck yet, and now im wondering if its even worth it. so if there are any of you out there who want to upgrade that godawful stock weapon motor, reply this thread and i'll tell you how....mind you i dont have a digital camera on hand, so i'll have to explain it and possibly scan some sketches in, i figured out a way to easily wire in a regular motor. for those of you who mess about with motors and have seen the weapon motor, you can see the weapon motor has two connections on the end, while a regular motor only has the one bit on the end, and the other connection is usually made with the casing of the motor...SO with my method you only solder one connection to that one end piece on regular motors and the other piece is held in place, in contact with the casing, without soldering and i must say its a big improvement and quite clever, im very proud of my ingenuity its so worth it, so if youre wondering, ask, otherwise im too lazy to write the whole explanation out

[Vroomvroom]

which end did you put on the back of motor and which on the casing? I couldnt get mine to work doing what you did. Explain more if can or get a working camera)

[Squishy]

hmm... can you flip reg. charg's? lol

[baggy]

they flip other bits even as standard
but better with batt mod done
much good fun

mine can flip bits like crazy, and as for more details of the motor switch, here's some bits and pieces.... when you open up the inards of the truck you see that you have to unscrew that other little plastic piece from the top cover to access the motor. you'll see that the plastic piece holds the motor in place...now if you try to solder the two wires from the old motor to your new one you may find that its very difficult to solder the wires to the end connections of the motor.....SO you may have tried soldering one wire to the end piece and the soldering the other to the casing of the motor, but as in my case the solder doesnt like to hold to the casing and when it did the motor wouldnt fit very nice into the plastic holder piece thingy.

so here's what i did, take that plastic piece and about a 5mm or so along the bottom (from the end opposite of where the gears would sit) make a small hole with an exacto knife, just enough for your wire to go through and then scrape a shallow sort of pathway or channel along the bottom from the hole you jjust made to the end, this will allow you to strip some wire off the not already soldered one and lay it in the channel (make sure the channel is just deep enough to have the wire sit snugly in it AND still maintains contact with the motor casing (and when you screw the motor back in place, the motor will also be pushed down upon it so that helps maintain contact. u can bend the wire once through the little hole you made to hold it more in place and put a little blob of solder there to be completely sure. then with your motor soldered to the one wire place it back in the casing u place it back in the casing screw it on, and it works great

hopefully that was a good enough description

First off when you open the truck up and remove the screw on the top cover to expose the weapon motor, gears will fall out, you should be able to figure out how they go back in, if not and you want to see it first in place for when you put them back in have the inside of the top cover facing up and remove the piece of plastic holding the weapon motor and weapon gears in.
To upgrade the weapon motor you will have to snip two wires*****snip the wires VERY close to the motor so you have lots of wire to work with when wiring the new motor.***** now im not sure of what motor youre putting in there, I put in a DKS Monkey Rotor, a 2.6 or 3.0 would be fine or whatever you want, but remember the 3.8 doesn’t have a lot of torque and this is for the weapon (you want strength and speed). Strip the ends of the wires so you can make fresh contacts with the upgrade motor (test it out by touching one wire to the end and one to the casing of the motor and make sure it runs when you push the weapon button on your controller.do this every now and then to make sure you still have solid functioning corrections, (remember to charge) ok.
so the first bit of soldering is easy, solder one wire to the end metal connection on the end of the motor. Don’t worry about having the motor in the casing with the wires threaded into that plastic bit, with my method that's dealt with. That half pipe on the plastic part has the end bit where the wires are threaded under to the motor. Cut that off*****EXCEPT****** for a little rim so it still holds your motor in place, I cut small rectangle out of the end of the half pipe so the motor could slide in with the wires and still be held in place. Now the other wire will not be soldered onto the casing because the casing doesn’t hold very nicely with solder and with a big lump of solder it wont let the plastic piece close nicely again.....So what you do is make two little separate holes( fairly close together as possible really) in the bottom of the half pipe plastic piece near the end where you cut the rectangle out. Make a tiny VERY shallow little trough ( or ditch) running from one hole to the other. This is how the other wire will connect. Thread the other wire(make sure there is enough exposed wire to do this) through the hole in the little ditch and then back down through the bottom of the half pipe plastic piece so the wire is running along the bottom of your halfpipe and able to make contact with your motor casing(test it and make sure it has a good connection. To hold the wire in place, add a blob of solder to the end so it cant go back through the hole. I used an exacto knife to make my very shallow trough running from hole to hole. Once you've got it all set with gears and checked to make sure it runs, the tricky part is now to get all the gears back into the plastic part and screw the weapon motor cover with the half pipe back in place.