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04-03-2006, 10:41 AM
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| Sinking with the ship   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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I know what some of you are thinking... "WTF this kid is building another truck??? why doesnt he just finish his other 18 fawking trucks he has???" Well....thats true....BUT I cant help myself  ....I have a RC truck addiction. They say the 1st step is admiting you have problem  On a serious note, after the truck Ill be recieving next week from Unimoger, that will be the last truck I buy for a long time...Untill I finish this and the rest of my projects.ANyways, I got this from my buddy Jeff (braceysdad) I had been nagging him since he 1st posted it months and months ago... Pretty much anytime he posted and I posted back it ended with "Hey Jeff, whats going on with the Bronco". When he PM'd me that if I wanted it, it was mine, last week I was siked but at thought it sucked to see someone as funny as he is leaving the hobby. Well I got it and immediately started building it up this weekend. 1st thing to do was to lay paint on the new body he also through in for me  this will explain why I wanted it so bad  Kinda matches the real thing doesnt it?     After paint, I made a trip to 2 different LHS to pick up some hardware, top 4 links, moabs, lathe motor and some other random bits. 100 bucks or so later and assembly begun   A while back someone on ebay was selling BRAND NEW built pede trans for a good price, I bought one just because...figured Id needed it some day. I had an extra complete diff assembly so I didnt have jerk around degreasing the other one. filled it with JB weld and slapped it back together.  I was shocked when I was in the one LHS, I asked the guy if he had lathe motors and he turned around and pulled one right off the shelf  I couldnt believe it and fr 20 bucks I couldnt go wrong  I got it pretty much rolling  I still have to install a servo, my SR and lock the rear steer still and finish up detailing the body. Specs: Boyer bronco chassis aluminum threaded shocks with 35wt oil and losi yellow springs locked pede trans locked tlt axles cut HPI Bronco body JR FM reciever JR Servo Novak super rooster 55t Integy lathe with 10 tooth custom pinion MOABS with cut foams RPM wheels king black foot half shafts pede sliders with steal yokes 12" wheel base Stay tune for the finished product Mike Last edited by 1BadJeepBruiser; 04-03-2006 at 10:48 AM. |
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04-03-2006, 10:49 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: logan
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wow thats a sweet ride, you sure do like to build, were do you run all of your creations? do you go some were or do you have a personal course
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04-03-2006, 10:57 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: G6'N
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Mike, fawk you, you have way too much $$$$$ for a kid your age! J/K , nice score, great build as always. Jeff will be very missed around here, but hopefully if we all post pics of his great trucks, his legend will live on. |
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04-03-2006, 11:25 AM
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| I wanna be Dave   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Eastern WA
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Nice truck, What rims are those? They look to shiny for pede rims.
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04-03-2006, 11:30 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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That is a beautiful build! Love the body color!
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04-03-2006, 04:44 PM
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| Im Brandon   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Colfax, CA
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Hey Mike looks great! The wheelbase is long, but the longer I look at it the cooler it looks like that. PS: I saw that you sold my bro's old jeep on ebay this morning, nice sell im glad you got most of your $$ back Now I see why you sold it, to have the extra $$ for more projects! Wait till you see the jeep tuber my bro is building right now |
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04-03-2006, 05:14 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: UrAnUs
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noice!!!
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04-03-2006, 07:15 PM
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| Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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The wheel base is 12 and 3/4 of an inch with a cog just under 3 inches later MIke | |
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04-03-2006, 07:17 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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Bada$$ rig dude!
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04-03-2006, 07:27 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: dallas tx
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| That is one hell of a machine.... cant wait to see some action shots. Congrats! |
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04-03-2006, 08:15 PM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: logan
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| Sweet build! I love to see the top cut off to show the nice tubing work. |
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04-04-2006, 12:17 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: San Jose
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you don't have kids do ya? Nice work. I wish I had the time to build one so fast. I've got tons of ideas just no time to build them. It looks sweet though.
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04-04-2006, 08:14 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
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Definitely drool-worthy.
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04-04-2006, 09:15 AM
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| Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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 , as I was discussing with twisted the other day on AIM, im 20 years old and live at home. My only bills are really my yota truck payment and vehicle insurance. Im lucky enough to not have to pay rent thanx to momma dukes, she must love me alot Plus I usually work 6 days a week, durring the week I work for a mountain bike company and when I work saturdays I work for my local bike shop Soooooooo this leaves me with $$$ and time to spend on RCs which is my favorite thing besides bmx riding and skate boarding. Bmx and sk8ing dont really cost to much and since I drive a Yota thats practically problem free, only thing I gotta worry about is the 1:1 Bronco...that thing gets costly  Mike | |
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04-04-2006, 09:54 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bellflower
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dang bro, im jealouse. lets see some action picts, or at least an atric shot. haha. i need a job to be able to finish mine. i have everything ecxept the chassis. i want to build it myself, but i dont have the time too weld it myself. KEvIN |
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04-04-2006, 03:19 PM
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| Adilynsdad too!   Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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1bad, I've changed my mind. I want it back. That looks bad. I knew it would if you ended up with it. |
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04-05-2006, 12:26 PM
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| Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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Got some more work done on the Bronco, I spent most of the time finishing up the details on it, I think it has a good combo of scale looks and performance. He is the articulation photos   Here is some of the body detailing photos, I tried to keep it looking like my EB   Mounted up a spare drive shaft  and a shovel  last shot  I finished the rear steer lock out and I had to extend the drive shafts front and rear. Only think left to really do is hook up the servo |
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04-05-2006, 12:42 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Lehi
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Man that looks SWEET!!!!!!!!!! Nice job!!! |
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04-05-2006, 01:31 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: G6'N
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looking reall good MIke!
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04-05-2006, 01:38 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: dallas tx
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That thing is looking great....Is it heavy?
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