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08-27-2019, 05:58 PM | #1 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2019 Location: St. Cloud
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| Bringing an old crawler back to life
A few months ago, one of my RC buddies was getting rid of an old chassis he had laying around. I figured I'd take it and see if I could salvage something from it. Upon further inspection, I saw it was an Integy V3 i-rock 10 crawler in need of work. I decided to get it running, using only whatever parts it already had and replacing the missing parts from anything laying around my workbench. In other words, don't put any money into it. This is how it looked when I got it. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
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08-27-2019, 06:13 PM | #2 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2019 Location: St. Cloud
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| Re: Bringing an old crawler back to life
After cleaning it up a little, I started replacing what was missing and upgrading some parts with what I had laying around. Replaced missing front shocks, tried out different tires and motors...... Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
08-27-2019, 06:23 PM | #3 |
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After several tire changes, I added a few accessories for trailin'.... Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
08-27-2019, 06:29 PM | #4 |
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| Re: Bringing an old crawler back to life
I finally settled on a set of Duratrax Approach tires. Coupled with an old set of Losi Night Crawler shocks, it performs well. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
08-27-2019, 06:53 PM | #5 |
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Besides the tires and shocks, I also added an old Duratrax Blast esc, Integy 55t motor, running 14/87 pinion/spur combo with a 2S 5000mah lipo. The body is an old HPI bug body that was on my son's competition crawler back in the day, found it sitting on a shelf. He custom painted it to look like a rust bucket! The servo is the stock one it came with and no mods to the axles. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
08-28-2019, 01:49 PM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Austin
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| Re: Bringing an old crawler back to life
It's unique, weird, and old.... ...and I like it! Nice job repurposing everything. |
08-28-2019, 04:38 PM | #7 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Austin Texas
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Free just makes the hobby that much more fun! Cool to see you're getting some use out of that rig! What's the deal with the rig on the left in the first picture? I think I see a Pede Transmission.
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08-28-2019, 05:51 PM | #8 |
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08-28-2019, 06:04 PM | #9 | |
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08-28-2019, 07:26 PM | #10 |
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The Moab tires were dry rotted so I replaced them with my own Moab's on 2.2 RC4WD wheels. Took an HPI Chevy Silverado body and turned it into a half cab. Also added an LRP esc and a Traxxas servo. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
08-28-2019, 08:14 PM | #11 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Austin
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Shoot - that's another winner! Very cool! |
08-29-2019, 09:15 PM | #12 |
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| Re: Bringing an old crawler back to life
Changed esc to a Traxxas XL5, added a few accessories, detailed the cab and took it to a crawler course. Needs some fine tuning but performed decently on the course. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
08-30-2019, 07:52 AM | #13 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Douglassville, PA
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I like them both! Been thinking about a "vintage build" - I have a lot of older parts laying around. I imagine it would look something like those.
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08-30-2019, 10:10 AM | #14 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: O-town
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| Re: Bringing an old crawler back to life
OLD FUNG strikes again!!!
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08-30-2019, 10:40 AM | #15 | |
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08-30-2019, 10:42 AM | #16 |
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09-01-2019, 08:23 AM | #17 |
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Considering Integy's reputation for producing cheap junk, I gotta say this crawler is decent. Sure I had to replace missing parts with other brands but the chassis, tranny and axles are still stock and I've been pounding the hell out of it on the rocks and trails. Electronics have been waterproofed so I took it for a swim. Will try to upload some video, here are some pics for now. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk |
09-01-2019, 09:17 AM | #18 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Terrassa
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Very cool! These axles look bombproof :O and the body is certainly a winner! Nice work.
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09-01-2019, 11:15 AM | #19 |
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Thanks |
09-01-2019, 05:01 PM | #20 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Austin
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Looks like der Volkswagen ist ein Schwimmwagen! (serious U-boat action, there...) |
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