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Kimmie28

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My wife got me a tamiya blackfoot for my birthday. While I was super excited for this truck I did run into the dreaded short axle on the right side but used two extra washers from the kit and a plastic spacer I had laying around to shim the drive cup as a temporary solution. Other than that I built it box stock took it for a drive and decided I wanted to use hex drives on it and found some in a parts box that I threw on it along with a brass spacer on each wheel and used some rpmwide wheelbase revolvers on the rear. I used traxxas canyon trail tires stretched onto them I found an adapter kit for the front on evil bay and will be ordering those to run the matching front wheels. Overall nice truck and runs good on a traxxas velenion 3s system. Even with the stock gearbox. Of course that will all be upgraded as more time and money allow. For now check out the pics
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My wife got me a tamiya blackfoot for my birthday. While I was super excited for this truck I did run into the dreaded short axle on the right side but used two extra washers from the kit and a plastic spacer I had laying around to shim the drive cup as a temporary solution. Other than that I built it box stock took it for a drive and decided I wanted to use hex drives on it and found some in a parts box that I threw on it along with a brass spacer on each wheel and used some rpmwide wheelbase revolvers on the rear. I used traxxas canyon trail tires stretched onto them I found an adapter kit for the front on evil bay and will be ordering those to run the matching front wheels. Overall nice truck and runs good on a traxxas velenion 3s system. Even with the stock gearbox. Of course that will all be upgraded as more time and money allow. For now check out the pics View attachment 158858View attachment 158859View attachment 158860View attachment 158861
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Hell yeah man looks good bud. That was the first truck I owned back in the late 80's. It's a fun little truck. If your going to run it brushless. You will need to upgrade the trans. Or you will rip the gears apart in the stock trans. Love the blackfoot...
 
Looks great. Happy Birthday. Your wife is a keeper for sure. 😀
That she is. We've been together 5 years and she's the one that brought me back to the hobby. She wanted to see what the fuss was all about so she got me an ecx torment and it's been all downhill from there. Infact she has a few herself.
 

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