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01-03-2008, 06:53 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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|  My 2.2 Trar
After seeing muddauber jr's Lil Blue Pacer when we were in Oklahoma last October I knew I had to build one. As soon as we got home I went to walmart and picked one up to scab the body from. That's been a few months and with the pending Colorado scale series starting right around the corner I thought I'd try to get it going. I'm trying to go low budget with this one so I'm gonna try to use as much as the stuff I have here at the shop without actually haveing to run out and buy anything else. Here's the plan for now: Pacer body, left blue. K2-3L chassis, fits perfect with a small cut made on the chassis, more on that later. 12" wheelbase TLT axles, stock shafts with RCP copper alloy ring and pinion Axial tranny HPI Saturn 27T motor Moped ESC Narrowed geolanders Tamiya stadium truck shocks Tower pro servo for winching Tower pro servo for steering Got a bunch of stuff mocked up today and most of the plans laid out, the build will start tomorrow, I'll post live as I build. Plan it to take it out and shoot a video on sunday, we'll see how that goes. A couple mock up shots. |
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01-03-2008, 07:07 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: buckeye,AZ
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looks good, more pics  |
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01-03-2008, 07:10 PM
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| [HOONIGAN]  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Grand Junction
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Man that's ugly..............in a good way.   |
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01-03-2008, 07:42 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: SoCal
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Nice fish bowl
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01-03-2008, 07:52 PM
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| MODERHATER™  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado
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01-03-2008, 08:19 PM
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| RCC Addict   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: spotting for jeepsohigh
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Super , now you need a guy with a leisure suit to drive it |
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01-03-2008, 08:46 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: buckeye,AZ
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alright man sounds good
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01-04-2008, 05:12 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Alright, been a busy day here at the shop, but I did get some stuff done. Axles are all stock including bushings, except for the RCP ring and pinions. Axles are all built with links setup like the build document from Reign RC says. Also flipped the axles over and ran them across the belt sander for a little clearance. |
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01-04-2008, 05:13 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Next I drilled the K2-3L skid plate for the Axial tranny.
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01-04-2008, 05:15 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Next I checked to see how the chassis fit into the body. And decided that to get it to sit how I wanted I needed to trim about 1/2" off the total length of the chassis.
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01-04-2008, 05:18 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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The rolling chassis, ready to go, or so I thought. When we first looked at it we figured we could get away with a 12" wheelbase, but once we put the chassis and body together it just didn't look right. We spent a few hours messing with things and finally ended up with some shorter links in the rear.
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01-04-2008, 05:19 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Got the body mounted up, and had to do a little trimming. The rear fit perfect, but we had to flat fender the front.
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01-04-2008, 05:25 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Once we got it all together as a roller we did what every respectable redneck does as soon as they finish their Trars. We found the first little ricer we could and we showed him what a real car is. Notice that sweet tire stuffage! Tomorrow project, driveshafts, electronics, winch, test drive! |
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01-04-2008, 05:28 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: *
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Its so fawking ugly its awesome ...Throw an exo on it maybe some rock sliders prerunner with lights on the front...Are you going to have it in Moab this year??? |
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01-04-2008, 05:43 PM
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| PapaGriz Yo  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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My Dewalt!!!! Hopefully it's being useful to you. This thing is turning out better than I imagined. I wasn't so sure about it cuz I never seen muddauber's before, but it really turning out cool. |
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01-04-2008, 06:50 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: WHEAT RIDGE, CO
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Bad a$$ rock crawlin "garth mobeeeel" !! cool. |
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01-04-2008, 07:39 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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Up until now I didn't think you could fab...I seriously think Aaron did all the work and you just stood in front of the camera. I wanted to build one of these but couldn't find a body. Looks good man. *You have sexy hands for a man... |
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| Sinking with the ship  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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01-04-2008, 07:51 PM
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