Szczerba's #3744 Jeepspeed Cherokee

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by Szczerba

Well, I was gunna clean up my rig but the lovely Mrs. Szczerba offered. Said it "looked like fun".

Never happen in my house. The wife doesn't care to touch the toy trucks.


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[STANG KILLA SS]

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

underhood tube work still seems a bit bare?

Originally Posted by Szczerba

You can see some front end tweakage on the passenger side.

Originally Posted by Szczerba

nothing sticks to those wheels!

[Bulldog]

Wife of the year award!

On behalf of 95% of the members whose wives won't even look at a toy truck, much less touch one or acknowledge a little bit of joy in our hobby...We salute you Mrs, Szczerba!!!!

[Mighty1]

Originally Posted by Bulldog

Wife of the year award!



On behalf of 95% of the members whose wives won't even look at a toy truck, much less touch one or acknowledge a little bit of joy in our hobby...We salute you Mrs, Szczerba!!!!

No joke! My wife says,"I can't believe you'll drive 200 miles to play with a toy!" Hail Queen Sczerba of RCCrawlin


Scale Horsepower

[Hoosierdady]

This rig may disappear on the trip to PA next month....sleep with one eye open, holding your Cherokee tight .

[Szczerba]

Originally Posted by CD13

Now that's a good lady

Originally Posted by Big Daddy

Never happen in my house. The wife doesn't care to touch the toy trucks.

Originally Posted by Mighty1

No joke! My wife says,"I can't believe you'll drive 200 miles to play with a toy!" Hail Queen Sczerba of RCCrawlin


Scale Horsepower

Originally Posted by Bulldog

Wife of the year award!

On behalf of 95% of the members whose wives won't even look at a toy truck, much less touch one or acknowledge a little bit of joy in our hobby...We salute you Mrs, Szczerba!!!!

Yep, I just asked her to help me move the table outside and she said "That looks like fun, I will do it". Took her an hour and I did some much needed shop cleaning.

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

nothing sticks to those wheels!

It's that Medical grade acetal, son. And Duuuuuuuude's soft machinst hands.

Originally Posted by Hoosierdady

This rig may disappear on the trip to PA next month....sleep with one eye open, holding your Cherokee tight .

I have a leash for it. You know, the ones you see crazy parents putting on their kids, 12' range.

[Shinjari]

Great looking rig. Dont see to many cherokees that much. I may have a HH 13.5 for you to use when youre done with that Redline. =)

[Szczerba]

Originally Posted by Shinjari

Great looking rig. Dont see to many cherokees that much. I may have a HH 13.5 for you to use when youre done with that Redline. =)

The Redline is on it's last leg anyways. i just threw it in as I didnt have a HH laying around.

[ROLANDROCKSHOP]

a few clips of szczerba's Cherokee in here...

[Szczerba]

Thanks Josh. ^

Permanent window net mounts installed

[STANG KILLA SS]

is the electronics tray steel?

[Szczerba]

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

is the electronics tray steel?

22gauge nonsense that my MIG welder fights to tack to the tube. After tear down, I saw that one side had came untacked and the back as well. so I gloobed some tiny tacks to hold it a lil better tonight. I could have just used some fab tabs and screws!

[Szczerba]

Do your shock maintainence kids!
RPM dual stage blue pistons on with 35wt oil all four corners.
One shock body/cap leaks so I am going to try this thread sealant.

[marinearmeni]

Originally Posted by Szczerba

Do your shock maintainence kids!
RPM dual stage blue pistons on with 35wt oil all four corners.
One shock body/cap leaks so I am going to try this thread sealant.

Are you running the pistons to achieve slower compression and faster rebound or flipped to get faster compression and slower rebound?

[Szczerba]

Hmm. Not sure. Didn't know they could be ran either way. The smaller, thinner piston is on top.

[Mighty1]

Originally Posted by marinearmeni

Are you running the pistons to achieve slower compression and faster rebound or flipped to get faster compression and slower rebound?

Please explain.


"Scale Horsepower" only one way to think about it!"

[monkeyracer]

Originally Posted by marinearmeni

Are you running the pistons to achieve slower compression and faster rebound or flipped to get faster compression and slower rebound?

Originally Posted by Szczerba

Hmm. Not sure. Didn't know they could be ran either way. The smaller, thinner piston is on top.

Originally Posted by Mighty1

Please explain.


"Scale Horsepower" only one way to think about it!"

I wondered this (which way you had the pistons oriented) when you first told me you were running the dual rate pistons.
The pistons are designed to flow faster in one direction, hence the dual rate.

Axial had dual rate pistons for the exo, which also fits the wraith shock bodies, the pistons on the right in the pic below:


AX80033

Although they don't explain much about it in the user manual.

The idea is that you want to slow down compression, and speed up rebound. When you are at high speeds, and hit a bump, the compression feels the full force of the bump, and the rebound only feels the force of the spring. So tuning the rate at which this happens can help control the suspension much better.

RPM has a FAQ that may help answer some other questions about the shock pistons:

Frequently Asked Questions - Advantages of RPM Two Stage Shock Pistons

It sounds like Shane has them in the right orientation; thin (aka floating) piston on top. When the shock compresses, the force pushes the two pieces together and oil only flows through the "A" holes. When the spring rebounds, the floating piston lags behind a bit and opens the "B" holes as well for oil to flow through.


**For a crawler, or slow speed scaler, this is not that helpful!**
For a jeepspeed, U4, Yeti, etc, this is really important for the rough high speed sections.

[Szczerba]

I had seen the axial dual rates in my parts bin and wondered which kit they were from.

You explained that way better than I could. I just knew they worked on the high speed stuff. I currently have this setup in my 2.2 class 3 crawler and it seems to be working in that application as well. The setup does keep the rig under control when bouncing around the rocks or trying to get on uphill wheelspeed climbs.

[monkeyracer]

Originally Posted by Szczerba

uphill wheelspeed climbs.

True, dual rate is great to keep the wheels from hopping too bad.

I thought there was an article on axial's website about the dual rate pistons, but it would have been around when the exo came out, and I'm too lazy to look through the blog entries to find it. Might also be in a thread deep in the EXO section too...

Either way, I'm sure there are tons of people with that parts tree in their bin and didn't know it.

[Szczerba]

I have looked at the MIPs
Pistons too. They have direct drop in's for the losi 4" crawler shocks. The RPMs take some time to get fit into the BB's. Ive done two full sets and it's worth the time for go fast-ish/trail rigs.