free/cheap mods

[Daviticus]

Originally Posted by gottorque

I'm really liking this. I'd love to see more scale trucks with separate shocks and coil buckets. Going this route with the front of my Dime for the New Bright LR3 body, may go leafs in the rear.

Looks great, lots of good info in this thread fellas.

[904crawler]

well i got a good tip for anyone who wants more flex. get some ax10 shocks pull the springs out and mount them up.u will get like 3 inchs more flex then what u had with the stocks and ur ride hight will still b the same. it works well for me. thought that i would jet throw it out there

[fortysixandtwo]

Good info in here, keep it coming.

[AX10wannabe]

anyone trim/round the foam on a flat iron tire??

im not talking about star cutting them im talking like "rounding" the foam, cutting off the corner where the centre tread meets the sidewall, instead of a square shape making a wider "U" shape. was talking to a friend today and he did this to his 2.2 hammers and it made them more squishy..

im looking to buy some 2.2 mud slingers soon so i was thinking about pulling the 1.9 flat irons apart and trying this.. and was thinking of cutting the tires a little bit too as once i get 2.2's the 1.9's will be strictly for winter and snow plowing and a set of chains will live on these tires.

[runout_mick]

I've always rounded all of my tire foams, even the flat irons. Guess I just do it without thinking about it as part of building the tire, left over from my gofast days.

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

Stock:


Using mostly stock parts and a couple chunks of scrap plastic from the box a servo came in (Sorry for the crappy picture quality). Basically reused the standoffs from the battery tray that hold it above the radio box/front axle, bolted through the battery tray and down into the brackets that snap into the frame for the radio box. Spent $0 on this mod aside from buying a 1300mah battery so the rx/ESC could be relocated to the battery tray.

[904crawler]

cuttin tires is always a good idea. im runin the flat iron foams in my rc4wd boggers that have all the small lugs cut out and it works well for me on rocks mud sand u name it....

[coreyh29645]

this is an awesome thread for nOObs like me. thanx guys

[AX10wannabe]

Originally Posted by runout_mick

I've always rounded all of my tire foams, even the flat irons. Guess I just do it without thinking about it as part of building the tire, left over from my gofast days.

thinking about giving this a go today, i got all day hahaha. what did it do to the tire and how do the tires perform afterwards??

[TSK]

Originally Posted by CREEPINKING

I have no worries at all about the strength of the lower mounts. The longer screw and spacer offer absolutely no play or movement in the mount. The top mount on the chassis brace just didnt quite sit well with me though. I tried everything to get it to break and it wouldnt but I ended up flipping the origional mount that I made over and using it as a mount. Now I know its buttetproof. Heres some pics.

That looks great, but having the shock bolted to the lockout screw looks mighty sketchy to me. Not much actual plastic in that area and it'll probably strip once you start tackling alot of bump with speed.

You should fab a delrin block to bolt to the two holes top side of each axle end, and then tap a hole down it's length to attache the shock bootm.

[davidk_78]

To get better flex straight out of the box:
1 - Grind part of the front chassis brace (P/N AX80026A 1) away to clear the servo horn.
2 - Also use the smaller servo mounts (P/N AX80028 6) instead of the taller parts - I have found that these can hang on the chassis rails.
3 - Also as previously mentioned, remove the rubber shocker stops.

I found that these 3 three things made a big difference when building the kit version of the Honcho.

[Daviticus]

Originally Posted by AX10wannabe

anyone trim/round the foam on a flat iron tire??

im not talking about star cutting them im talking like "rounding" the foam, cutting off the corner where the centre tread meets the sidewall, instead of a square shape making a wider "U" shape. was talking to a friend today and he did this to his 2.2 hammers and it made them more squishy..

im looking to buy some 2.2 mud slingers soon so i was thinking about pulling the 1.9 flat irons apart and trying this.. and was thinking of cutting the tires a little bit too as once i get 2.2's the 1.9's will be strictly for winter and snow plowing and a set of chains will live on these tires.

Originally Posted by runout_mick

I've always rounded all of my tire foams, even the flat irons. Guess I just do it without thinking about it as part of building the tire, left over from my gofast days.

I've always pulled the foam completely out of the tire. Has worked for me, and appears more realistic in my eyes. I can't think of any trail-riders that put 40+psi in their tires anyway.

[Roman5150]

wow cant wait to get my honcho. keep going guys im kepping notes

[Boyd1980]

cheap links, and 4 link For the dingo scx10 NOT Honcho...
I picked up some Traxxas revo push rods with rod ends. $5-$7 a pair
they bolt up to the truck the same as stock. are much stronger and look way better. they are the same lenght as the stock links. (11.5" wb)
I bought 3 pair. 2 for front lower and 4 for the 4 link in the rear.

[josruu]

Nice thread guys! Alot of good info for us noobs here.Will do several of them to my honcho

Im sur emost of you know this tip but here it goes:
If you change the screw in front of the front axle that holds the C hub to a screw with a lowered (is that correct?) head and grind of some of the plastic/metal on youre steering knuckles you will gain a few extra mm of turn.
And I made myself cheap steering links out of some plastic rod ends and 3mm threaded pole(whats the correct name for it in english, if you know what I mean?) that wont flex when turning so I got a tiny bit more of turn there too

[CREEPINKING]

Originally Posted by TheSCorpionKing

That looks great, but having the shock bolted to the lockout screw looks mighty sketchy to me. Not much actual plastic in that area and it'll probably strip once you start tackling alot of bump with speed.

You should fab a delrin block to bolt to the two holes top side of each axle end, and then tap a hole down it's length to attache the shock bootm.

I ran it pretty hard for a while like I had them mounted with no problems but, like you, I kinda had my doubts on the lower mounts. So I bent a couple pieces of alum. just to be on the safe side.



Another cheap lil thing I did was fab up a mount for the batt. up front with a scrap piece of styrene. Just sandwiched it between the rx box in the rear and between the servo and mount in the front. worked out great with the Hand Bros. mount.

[James003]

Hey all, i'm glad this thread is helpful. I hadn't checked it for awhile. I'll work on editing this post soon with some of the changes and cheap mods i've done to my Honcho. Not much but I did waterproof it. Working on doing a CMS mount using the stock servo plate myself.

Keep 'em coming guys Thank You!!