Running to high of a gear ratio wont hurt anything. It will just make the truck more "torquey" than fast. Running to low a gear ratio can burn up your motor and/or ESC but its easy to tell when you're gear ratio is to low. Your motor temps will start getting to hot.
Yes I have 2 of them and the transfer case. I liked it the military truck I have come with I think the 170 but yea I upgraded to the 370 and also the small twin motors. Those are small but 1 operates the front and the other the back.all in all for that size range of motors I liked the 370. Can't beat the 540 with the controller I have I can super crawl and it also gets up and goes when you need the Speed. A friend challenged me with a trsxxis and we'll I gave him a run for his money. He was alittle faster but not as much pulling power or climbing power as a simple wpl. He thought I was going to bring a knife to a gun fight sorta speek. Haha I showed him. GOOD TIMES.The axles are awsome I love them I modifyed them to work on my 1/16 scale so that it will have a wide stance for more stability. Hey I bought a brushless esc and motor a while back and haven't used it yet but it's all waterproof. Esc and motor. Sold by surpass hobby. They have good products and good prices. Here is a pic of the motor. You can buy just it or a package deal with it and a motor or all that with a servo also waterproof. the best prices was at Bangood. I have recently been shopping there àlot the only thing is it sometimes takes a while to get it but other then wish and I hate that company there the best prices you can find. I really hope something of what I have shared with you will help. I'm really interested in how that amphibious truck turns out. I think that's a awsome idea and I hope you don't mind but I just might have to try my hand at building one.
I haven't had this size of tires on it long but the only thing is it has been wiggling the grub screws loose. I have recently purchased some locktight and drilled the other side to install a second grub screw. You would think they would of done that anyway but it's ok. I have taken and replaced the gears inside and the main drive shafts with heavy duty metalbons and the feed drive shaft with alot larger size so the torque wouldn't twist anything. I have built some real crawlers so I have a little idea how things work but it wouldn't matter. Fixing is part of the fun. Build it big. Break it. See what's wrong and build it stronger. We have some crazy train here and now we just had a wildfire not too long ago that burnt almost everything and now it's the time of season for rain and has moved made everything's really sticky and kind of gooey with all the ash. A tell good place to tear up a rc but super fun. Mainly I build and my kids break. I like the challenge of seeing what my creations can stand. I don't know I'm weird.yiu know the ones that I baby because seams to give up first so all in all we just drive it like we stole it. I buy parts to fill in but mostly I try reuseing what is salvageable from other RCs and now somebody's gave me three totes of all kinds of rc parts so it's been like Christmas. Alot of parts I have never seen before. Oh and to answer that the motor never has got hot yet even running full tilt for along period of time. I only run a 7.4 2cell and the motor calls for more so mabey that's helping me. Not shure about all that I haven't been doing this long but I have burnt up a hand full. Esc also but I'm still learning.
Huh, interesting. I'll keep that in mind.
Yeah, I found myself with a box full of WPL parts, this DUKW build that I'm doing is mostly recycled parts out of my bin. Which metal pinion and bevel gears did you get? I've seen at least 3 or 4 different ones.
To be honest, I built a boat in shop class back in high school and he had a thermoforming machine, so this is my first time building something like that in a while. I figure that since GMC in 1942 took a variant of their CCKW 6x6 chassis and build a watertight hull around it with welded sheet metal and dubbed it the DUKW, I can do the same with Styrene plastic sheets and Bondo, if not superglue. any adhesive that's like school glue should work.
Not real shure how heavy it is but I saw someone cut a large hole in the bottom of a jhon boat and fill it with a screen door then sprayed it with rino linner and it worked. I have used it in the past on a Ford bronco. I pulled the seats and sprayed inside the whole cab then installed waterproof speakers and stero after sealing off other components. After wheeling with the top off I would just spray it out with a hose. Never tryed to make it float though. Well kinda but rino linner didn't help for that.
Sweet thanks I am definitely going to check that out.
Sweet thanks I am definitely going to check that out. So I have been digging through my parts and found my windshield sprayer pumps. Small but perfect for rc trucks so a old school fire truck would be cool but I'm thinking I am going to make a swamp boat out if old drones and a old boat she'll then add the pumps kinda like a coast guard rescue boat but swamp boat style. To many rocks in our area for a prop and I don't have any jet propelled stuff. Another thing I thought if is to take a second cab and fit the two togeather to make a crew cab with a shirt bed.I'm just thinking about what you just don't see in the rc world that often. I think its all been thought of but but something that's just not so common. The otger photos is motors I have accumulated over time and the other picture is all motors that will fit up to the transfer case or the gearbox for th
So I'm thinking about getting a seesaw for my wpl but I'm also thinking about a 6 wheel wpl with motor on axle. Three 170 motors tall tires crazy grip and the right amount of weight to get traction.one thing that will keep alot of the weight low so I can lift it and with 3 motors it should be strong. Not going for speed. Totally nothing but rock crawler. My kid won't a rc with wheel dolly tires and I think I have what I need to do it all. Man so many projects to little time.
Not at all familiar with that particular RC. Sorry.
Wheel dolly tires? You mean dolly caster wheels?
