The Dingo Diary

[hamz9561]

If you can't the lifts towards the bumper, you can slightly increase the wheelbase to help avoid the binding.

 

[SMaxxin]

I'm going to try a few different position with the lift and find what works best for now.

 

[HPIguy]

Looks good Pete. It's all personal preference, but I think the SCX rigs look better on 1.9s for proportion reasons.

 

[Rolex]

What's that dark shadow looking thing just over the front of the left fender?

 

[hamz9561]

What's that dark shadow looking thing just over the front of the left fender?

Skid marks from where @RolexSux sat on the hood....

 

[Rolex]

Hamzsux

 

[hamz9561]

Get it right. It's @Hamzsucks!

 

[SMaxxin]

Looks good Pete. It's all personal preference, but I think the SCX rigs look better on 1.9s for proportion reasons.

I agree but I wanted tall 1.9's and the BFG's fit the bill....plus they were free.

 

[hamz9561]

You can't beat free.

 

[SMaxxin]

The motor came in today so I got to take it on a test run, it was not a good expirence. There was a lot of vibration on the front axle, it was because of the axle pinion angle. I removed the lift, went back to the stock wheelbase and gave it another run.....same problem! I started adding spacers to the front upper link hoping to smooth things out. By the time everything was rolling smooth the steering was fubar.

 

[wacmartin]

What exactly was creating the vibration on the front axle?

 

[SMaxxin]

I put the drive shaf together wrong. In the directions it says to line up the marks on the male and female shaft which I did. I didn't look at the picture well enought because it shows that you have to line up the pin in the cv joint with the marks on the shaft. I lined them up and it's smooth now.

 

[SMaxxin]

I currently have three sets of tires, Axial Ripsaw, Vaterra/Losi Race Claws. and Proline TSL Swampers. IMO the TSL's look the best but work the worst, they flat out suck compared to the two others! People dislike the Ripsaw's because they are the stock tires but they work great on broken concrete and they are badass in dirt and mud! The race claws really surprised me, they work great on everything hard, I haven't tried them in mud yet.

 

[SMaxxin]

Mounted the Swampers on Vaterra EXO beadlocks, mounted the spare tire and the Gearhead studded mud ladders

 

[HPIguy]

That thing is sharp Pete!

 

[Rolex]

Very nice. The mud spatter looks almost real.
What's that streak on the left side of the hood?

 

[SMaxxin]

Thanks Randy!

Rolex the mud was very easy to apply, a blip of the throttle and there it was, the streak on the hood is a custom job by some wacky nut not wearing pants.

 

[BamaFan]

Rolex your name is Randy? My name is Randy.

 

[Rolex]

Rolex your name is Randy? My name is Randy.

I guess he's been inhaling nitro fumes. I'm Ralph, Randy.

 

[SMaxxin]

HPIguy is Randy, Rolex is the wacky nut that put the custom streak on the hood!