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02-15-2013, 10:15 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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03-11-2013, 05:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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Some stuff bolted up.   Braces for bumper brackets, Blue Monkey Ti steering, servo plate etc., coming up. Going to make skidplate from bottom of front crossmember to bottom of bumper too. |
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03-13-2013, 11:07 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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Blue Monkey High Steer links installed with Axial aluminum c-hubs and High Steer knukcles. Gettin full travel steering, Axial CVDs showing accelerated wear after only a couple test sessions on the rocks, so I'm going to need some better CVDs soon...some cut down XR universals are looking like the best option to replace my worn CVDs.     Last edited by Natedog; 02-04-2014 at 10:28 PM. |
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03-17-2013, 11:26 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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Front Axial Jeep JK bumper mounted, lifted, braced, done and tested!!!  Love this bumper setup and my Blue Monkey High Steer kit along with Axial High Steer knuckles! Tons of steering, everything is up out of the way.  Matt at Blue Monkey was good to work with and hooked me up with parts I needed.   Last edited by Natedog; 03-18-2013 at 12:35 AM. |
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03-17-2013, 11:32 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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Some trail pics      Last edited by Natedog; 03-17-2013 at 11:39 PM. |
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03-17-2013, 11:43 PM
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03-18-2013, 12:45 AM
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I need to make some front inner fenders...looking for best material, going to check Dollar store for some Ziploc brand lightweight containers.
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04-22-2013, 02:15 PM
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05-14-2013, 10:47 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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Rebuilt my stock Axial shocks using Traxxas #7062 shock rebuild kit o-rings in place of the Axial black plastic spacer (between the two existing red o-rings), filled with fresh oil and crawled all afternoon, no more leaks!
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05-14-2013, 03:11 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Ca.
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Good to know, thanks for the part number. Nice rig, been following a while.
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05-15-2013, 06:43 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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| Re: Natedog's Honcho kit build
You're welcome, I really like the compressed and extended length (looks more scale too) of the stock shocks and was getting very frustrated with the leaks. Thanks for the comment too.  |
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05-16-2013, 10:38 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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| Re: Natedog's Honcho kit build
My Honcho setup with Axial chubs and High steer knuckles is working great, but I'm in process of grinding the metal balls in the Revo ends down thinner so that the tie rod moves up a tad higher and also get a little more up travel on the driver's side, drag link hits frame during compression before the tie rod on passenger side. Works great, lots of steering and good travel, zero bumpsteer. By grinding the end link balls thinner, they still have enough range of motion without binding, but the tie rod has moved up several millimeters and the drag link down a couple millimeters...win win situationi, all while keeping the linkage very close to the axle as R2J said ( more steering? ) with the Axial parts. For best results I run a little toe out, it still tracks straight but really helps it steer even tighter.
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05-28-2013, 03:23 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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Update on my front suspension. I cut down some Traxxas Revo black steel linkage rods and set them up so that they are 122mm eye to eye same as the wasted Axial bent aluminum lowers (they've been through a lot!) and installed them as my front lower links.
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05-28-2013, 03:49 PM
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Please measure Blue Monkey tie rod legth eye to eye, mm.
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05-28-2013, 11:27 PM
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06-01-2013, 11:09 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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07-07-2013, 06:19 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: montreal
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great thread thx for all the info now i have lots of work to do  |
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07-07-2013, 08:10 AM
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Nice. I like how your rig twists. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD |
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07-10-2013, 09:45 AM
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It's a lot of work to build and then fine tune a good crawler. Quote:
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08-14-2013, 10:00 PM
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sick build man. im new to this stuff and you heped me open up my plain of view. pics are super helpful!
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