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01-14-2008, 03:57 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: KC
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|  My Chevy K10
Hi guys...been working on this for a while...this is my first custom truck. The wheely king was my first hobby grade truck and I had a lot of fun with it for a while but I wanted a scale truck. So I took it apart early this year and made a chassis for it. Took me a while just to do the chassis as I didn't have any powertools so I had to use a coping saw to cut it out by hand.  For shocks I used the stock WK shocks with internal springs in it...other than that I used the stock WK axles and transmission on my custom chassis.   This was also my first time with a lexan body...took me a while to prep everything and I just finished painting it last night. This was my first time airbrushing too...lol as I got the airbrush set like 5yrs ago and never used it till now. I had a crappy lil blue compressor and that took a while as I had to wait for pressure build up after every one or two sprays of paint.   Still have to remove the protective film and add decals etc. After that I will build aluminum bumpers for the front and back. |
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01-14-2008, 04:07 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Indiana
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Looks great, you may want to try to lower the motor down a little to get a better COG
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01-14-2008, 04:21 PM
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| I had the hottest girlfriend at the MSD Nats Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hecho en Tejas
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badass chassis for doing by hand! much props my freind!
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01-14-2008, 04:29 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: buckeye,AZ
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looks great, by hand to. like the color of the body
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01-14-2008, 04:30 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: KC
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Yeah the COG is a little high...I don't do serious crawling though, mostly trail and bashing around. I though of clocking the transmission but with my chassis it would put the drive shaft angles too steep. I also wanted to keep everything stock so if I wanted I can rebuild my Wheely King. Maybe when I can find a used transmission one day I will lower the COG, which will allow me room to build the interior and put a driver in there... |
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01-14-2008, 04:35 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New York
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awesome chassis for it to be made by hand.. also lower the body a little bit, it would look better |
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01-14-2008, 04:53 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: nc
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looks real good. i wuld have given up a long time ago doing that by hand you can get a new ax-10 trans from the vendors here for under 40 i think. they have good gearing and small if you want an inerior(sp?) |
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01-15-2008, 04:51 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: KC
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Worked on the finishing the decals today. Do you guys put a layer of wax on the lexan? This is my first rc truck so I am a little paranoid about it. I am still deciding on the front grill, whether to use the decal or do a wash on the grill with black paint.     |
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01-31-2008, 06:04 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: KC
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Took the truck out to the countryside and tested it on all the terrain-rock, dirt gravel road, and ice. I was surprised that at the high COG that I have the truck didn't have any problems at all. I tried speeding and then making a sharp turn but it doesn't flip at all...so I was glad. I will probably lower the motor if I decide to build the interior for it.          Made a rear aluminum bumper for it...   Might add some D-rings on it later. Also working on making the front bumper. The yellow Bronco I got from SACCO. |
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