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Your RCs are much nicer than this, but another option for your future builds:
https://www.horizonhobby.com/product/lmt-4wd-solid-axle-monster-truck-roller/LOS04022.html
lol kind of wondering the same thing, I'm wondering if putting a nitro ST transmission like from a rustler sideways, mounted on the side vertical plates, with cutouts in the chassis.... have some prelim drawings i been working on to do similar to make a solid axle nitro MT. that way would keep the brake assembly, and be very compact.Hmmm wonder if I could stuff a nitro into that
So my next move to try, is taking the foams out of the tires. Since I'm running beadlocks I don't think they'll come loose or anything. Hoping they are firm enough without the foams, but if not I'll try putting something much softer in. Really hoping this kills two birds with one stone.
truck is looking so good! good to see progress to perfect your design that is really strange on the OWB, but glad you were able to get it fixed and ready to go again! stil just blown away with the outcome of your build.Ran the truck pretty hard this weekend. Couple of things broke. One was the m3 that was holding one of the bell cranks, which was an easy fix and I was back to racing my buddy. Pull start broke on the Pouncer, the spring itself decided to break. (makes note to order spares). The other thing that broke on Bakugan was kinda weird...
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OWB cracked, and while I could see this happening in a case where maybe the engine was flooded and the roto start caused the break, I didn't flood the engine at any point, never had the engine jammed. Weird. I usually carry a spare engine with me, but this day I did not, of course, Murphy's law.
Got it back together that night tho
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Otherwise the truck seems to be getting gradually more bullet proof. The body has taken a beating, it's pretty scuffed up, but other than having to replace the rubber horn a couple of times, it's surprisingly been durable.
Still not entirely happy with the bounciness. It's definitely much less, and gripping way better under acceleration, but it's not good enough. So, I've ordered a second set of the same rims, which I'll drill out a second vent, and I'm going to put blue compound Renegades on those.
Might be hard to see in the pic, but I replaced the stock front bumper with the alloy one from Kyosho, to add some weight to the chassis over the axles. I'm going to do the same with the wheelie bar as well, again, putting weight over the axles. I think having shaved off weight replacing the sideplates with CF might be contributing to the bounce, and hopefully putting weight back on directly where it needs it will improve it some.
truck is looking so good! good to see progress to perfect your design that is really strange on the OWB, but glad you were able to get it fixed and ready to go again! stil just blown away with the outcome of your build.
oh man... this build just keeps getting better and better even when i didnt think it was possible it could! as always, amazing work!My aversion for plastic continues...as I decided to make a CF wheelie bar, was not a fan of the flimsy plastic stock one, especially given my swaybar is routed through and supported by it, there was quite a bit of flex going on there. I also decided to go the route of incorporating the shock stays into the piece, similar to how some of the aftermarket ones did that sadly no longer exist. This in the end resulted in the shocks being mounted at a more severe splayed angle, as the shock stays were more inward compared to what it replaced, which means I can either use bigger offsets at the top, or mount the lower ones on the inside of my link mounts once I get my custom ones finished, which will make them much more vertical and eliminate any binding.
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Managed to not lose any digits during the making of these I used a bandsaw to get a rough cut, then cutting wheel and bits with a dremel tool to finish them up.
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Preliminary mounting, making sure all lined up right. I bolted these together to do the holes, a lesson learned from failed attempt at link mounts.
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Used CF tubes that I threaded as cross braces.
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Wasn't really sure what to do with the actual wheelie bar wheel shaft, I had contemplated putting two of the stock ones on, or two of the little drag race ones. In the end I decided to keep the stock one in the center, and add the drag race concepts aluminum ones to the outside, to give the bar itself some protection and stability. You can kinda see the "splayed" nature of the shocks, with the top mounts now being a few mm inward and causing some minor binding at full compression. If I use the same offset size I used at the bottom, it should help, but ultimately those link mounts are getting replaced with the CF/aluminum ones I am working on, and that will move the bottoms inward enough.
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There is almost no plastic left, and very little of the original Mad Crusher.