Honcho full bodied Comanche w/ winch

[thundaar]

Ok, so I've been on the forums here and drooling over these trucks for over a year now. I finally went out and picked up a kit and brought it home. Don't know how they managed to still have it but, i picked up a discontinued honcho kit with the aluminum links still factory sealed in the box (ax90014), from Hobbytown USA. While I was there i grabbed some 1.9 TSL Swampers and a Traxxas TQ 4ch radio and rec. Gonna keep the stock wheels on it for now, and I'll use the esc from my old losi night crawler since it still works. I'll get some pictures up as soon as I get them all uploaded.

[xslashguy]

Welcome I have about 2 weeks on you lol. I having a great time with my Ready to crawl honcho. There is a lot of good info and great people on this forum.

[steele42]

Congrats on finally taking the plunge! You won't regret it.

[thundaar]

Ok so here it is




I LOVE these swampers they look amazing

Enough grease?

[thundaar]

Skip a lot of the boring stuff





wonder if i could use one of these holes as a grease port to re-lube my axles

[thundaar]

Some action shots

This is actually REALLY steep

these swampers dig hard

[thundaar]

i have got to do something about the battery mount though that thing sets WAY to high i spend a lot of time upside down

[srt6]

Originally Posted by thundaar

wonder if i could use one of these holes as a grease port to re-lube my axles

i drilled two 1/8" holes in the center of the axle housing of one of my scx10's, one at the top in the front and one at the bottom in the back then used very short m3 screws to plug them, i used one of them meat injector needles to inject grease, just pull both screws out and inject in one until clean grease comes out the other, mine had a velineon on it and stayed in the mud but i never had any problems with bearings or anything else, just make sure you drill the holes with the axles apart and kinda over to the side where the spool rides

[Jus]

Congrats! Excellent choice on the tires.. Works great on mine. My favorite rig it's been up and down every mountain in my area.

[thundaar]

yeah no doubt i love em

[thundaar]

ok so i found this truck box at TCS it is awesome and cheap looks right on the back of this thing i cut out the fuel cell from the bed and dropped it right in with a lil 2 sided tape to hold it down, hope that keeps it there i'll add the pick in a few just gotta find the cable to my camera, if anyone is interested in these toolboxes and cant get them where you are let me know they have tons of them here at my local tcs

[thundaar]

Ok so after searching for what seems like forever i finally found the cord to upload the photo's to my computer so here it is i found this walking around tcs today and just had to have it

[thundaar]

putting it in was pretty straight forward just cut out the fuel cell make a lil more room and some two sided tape and BAM it's in

[thundaar]

some scale straps and a chain i'll call Burtha

[thundaar]

ok so i've been bashing my head in trying to figure out what i'm going to do with the battery, i dont like it sitting up that high and a 4600 mah battery is heavy, so my cog is way way up with it up on top of the electronics like that, not to mention i want to water proof this thing, so i orderd the proline jeep truck body from rc4wd and while i was there i ordered one of their 9300 scale winches, 4 channel radio i might as well get some use out of it. also with that body i'll be able to move the batter down to the frame in the back and use one of my radio shack project boxes to seal up all the electronics.

[thisdougsforu]

As a stop gap for myself, I ziptied my battery down right over the front axle. It's puts quite a bit of weight over it, and I can climb extremely steep inclines. Like I said, it's just a stop gap, but it's working great until I get around to changing the mount.

[thundaar]

looking at getting some new shocks for this thing, only a few days of playin around and the stocks leak, and was wondering if i could get some input on a good 100+mm shock

[pottymouth]

Higher is not better; just tippier. Stick with the 90mm shocks and ditch those lift bracket dealies.

[thundaar]

i don't have any lift brackets on my truck i was looking to get a little more articulation, and maybe a little more ground clearance. 100-105 mm shock is what i'm looking for. just need an opinion on a good one.

[PCHILNSF]

The aluminum pieces that are holding the upper part of the shocks are also used as lift brackets.

Originally Posted by thundaar

i don't have any lift brackets on my truck i was looking to get a little more articulation, and maybe a little more ground clearance. 100-105 mm shock is what i'm looking for. just need an opinion on a good one.