Few more mods to my artr

[terrible]

I stopped at the local hobby shop the other day to ask about some softer springs for my artr. The guy at the counter showed me the soft factory springs for the ax10 and to my shock they cost 6.50$ a pair! After he saw the look on my face he steered me to home depot and some cheap internal springs. After some looking around I found these :



The ones I ended up using are the medium sized ones in the pic. They slid right down inside the shock body and hav just the right amount of ride height and spring tension to work with my jeep body. Here are a few pics of the after:







As you can see in the pics it works pretty well and the tires get really good traction on the dry dirt in the back yard "hank holes" (name of the dog that dug them) Now I just have to work on my roll bar and bumpers after I weasel up my map gass and wire!

[BigSki]

nice mod. Do you have the part number for those springs? The rig looks good with the jeep body!

[terrible]

Here ya go. Thanks for the comment. I really like the jeep and will be doing another one once I get a more scale chassis started.

[biggin69]

Yea, I am looking to do a droop setup myself. A part # would be nice.

[HomerJ]

Very nice looking!! Tell Hank he has plenty more work to do and have him dig you up all kinds of spots to crawl in

[MCSCOTT]

Looks good. I like the Jeep body for a half way scale looking rig, and it's what I did with my first one. I ended up running internal springs on top and on bottom of the piston for a semi droop setup. For some reason I still seem to end up going by my local hardware store and cleaning them out on springs every week just to have some to test with here and there.

Main reason I went with the semi droop is because I wanted some down travel to the shocks so that I could mount my body lower on the chassis and go with the whole comp cut and flat fendered body armor look with it, without having the body up way to high. Slingshot chassis and redoing another body is the next step with this one, but here's how it sits as of right now.

[terrible]

I like the way yours looks with the cut off flares like that. I was afraid with mine it would leave too much chassis/air showing under the truck for now. I wanted to do the body in patriot blue like my 1:1 but It wouldn't have let the flares show well in black. So I did it like the wrangler my wife had. Eventually I'm going to cut the top and half cab off to do a factory looking roll cage with an interior to match. I might do the springs on the underside of the pistons as well to make the articularion more realistic. As of now the truck would have about 5 feet of travel and that just isn't possible on a real TJ!

I'm going to try and do it a little bit at a time so I can still play with it.

[MCSCOTT]

Originally Posted by terrible

I like the way yours looks with the cut off flares like that. I was afraid with mine it would leave too much chassis/air showing under the truck for now. I wanted to do the body in patriot blue like my 1:1 but It wouldn't have let the flares show well in black. So I did it like the wrangler my wife had. Eventually I'm going to cut the top and half cab off to do a factory looking roll cage with an interior to match. I might do the springs on the underside of the pistons as well to make the articularion more realistic. As of now the truck would have about 5 feet of travel and that just isn't possible on a real TJ!

I'm going to try and do it a little bit at a time so I can still play with it.

Yup, without the flares on there if you're running full sprung it makes you just have to mount the body up too high. It's not bad with the flares, but if you cut them off and run sprung there's wayyy too much air under there. That's why I started out trying full droop, but that put the belly too low, so right now I've ended up with a 50/50 setup, which is how we run our 1:1's on air shocks, so I like it, and was able to drop the body down to make it look good.