Prodigal JK Project

[steele42]

I vote yes on the steelies . Those look awesome!

[Mr.Joshua]

So I was thinking of a bumper with a swing out tire carrier...



Came up with this...





The latch was a total pain in the butt!

[PhantomRS10]

that looks pretty sweet. what was the materials used in that bumper. how much time ya got in it

[Mr.Joshua]

Originally Posted by PhantomRS10

that looks pretty sweet. what was the materials used in that bumper. how much time ya got in it

Thanks bud. The bumper is 1/2"x1/2" square tubing. The spare tire mount is 3/16" solid bar. Not sure on time but it seemed like the stupid pin took as long as the rest

[steele42]

Originally Posted by Mr.Joshua

So I was thinking of a bumper with a swing out tire carrier...


Came up with this...

That looks awesome! What happened to your tow shackle? You need some stronger ones like these
My take on scale tow shackles
And I still dig your tire/rim combination. Do those tire perform well? Or are they just scale.

[Mr.Joshua]

That looks awesome! What happened to your tow shackle? You need some stronger ones like these
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/scale...-shackles.html
And I still dig your tire/rim combination. Do those tire perform well? Or are they just scale.

Thanks Steele42...crummy plastic shackles. Thanks for the tip, I have made some of those exact ones I'm just not sure if I am putting shackles on the new bumper yet. They definatley will go on the Axial bumpers though.

The tires seem to perform pretty well and look very scale. Only complaint that I have so far is they are a little bit on the small size.

[Mr.Joshua]

I got the bumper mounted up



With the swing


And the top view
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[Mr.Joshua]

I spent some time staring at this thing trying to decide how and where to move the electronics around (tougher than I thought it was going to be). I want to build an interior so I want as much room as possible in the center. I flipped the tranny/motor anround to get the spur gear under the dash instead of between the seats. I ended up making an aluminum plate to put the battery up front and mount the ESC to as well. I also added an Axial electronics box in the back (two of them back there). One for the Rx and the other is dropped down beneath the frame rails to look like a gas tank and is home to the light unit. Also made a prelimenary styrene floor pan.

...On to the crummy phone pics...still need to secure the wiring

Drivers side


Passenger side

[Mr.Joshua]

I got the lights tested and hooked up. I still need to get the wires secured to the body though...ShooGoo I'm guessing?

Also went back to the Axial wheels, I keep going back and forth between them and the Steelies.

[steele42]

What headlight buckets did you use. Stock Axials? Looks awesome with the lights

[Mr.Joshua]

Originally Posted by steele42

What headlight buckets did you use. Stock Axials? Looks awesome with the lights

Thanks...going to do some rock lights eventually. I'm not sure which buckets they are...I was thinking they were Tamiya.

[Mr.Joshua]

I finally got to go play on the rocks

[brianw]

nice spot!

[Onebdgti]

Its looking good.

[Mr.Joshua]

Originally Posted by brianw

nice spot!

Yeah its a sweet spot for sure...a little spooky at times though. When I was up on the top of the ridge its about a 4oo' drop straight down. My rig glitched once and I thought it was a goner!

Originally Posted by Onebdgti

Its looking good.

Thanks man, its getting there.

[Ramset]

looking sweet, it sure was a great weekend for crawling.

[Mr.Joshua]

Originally Posted by Ramset

looking sweet, it sure was a great weekend for crawling.

Thanks Bro...spring is "in the air"

[Mr.Joshua]

OK...so I decided to make some different sliders. The aluminum sliders looked good but they just werent sliding the way I had hoped (due to openings that I cut in the bottom). Also I wanted them to look a little bit more substantial

Came up with these...

[Mr.Joshua]

I forgot...made some inner fender wells w/ cd cases
(a different slider on each side, I'm liking the round steel ones!)

[Irmoxj]

Nice looking jk!