Here is my Honcho

[kgb424]

ok I redid the front two tires so they now clear the steering knuckle, by taking a link out of each the 14 rows of chain, I then added links to center chain ring, so it would be higher up on the tire , so by shifting links around I was able to clear the steering knuckles. I think there is now less chance of the chain get caught in the knuckles now.

[kgb424]

I got the my Proline Power Strokes rebuild kits, and I rebuilt the Prolines and rebuilt the stock Sxc10 shocks, put in all new O-rings and used some of the Lucas Red 'N' Tacky to seal them, and some fresh 30 weight oil, and no leaks, and I tried to make them leak and nothing, no leaks, last time I cleaned them and put in fresh oil, I didn't use any grease or change out the O-rings and the leaked out under the R/C's own weight, but not this time, I'll keep my fingers crossed, that they don't leak this time. If the grease doesn't let them leak, then maybe after Xmas, I order the parts and rebuild my two sets of stock shocks for my crawler and basher wraith.

[kgb424]

I had some 1 1/2'' aluminum plate and made my esc mount out of it. And I mounted my Castle Vanguard EA-3 esc, and my brushless Castle 2900KV motor, going to use 20/87 gearing, and see what the temps are, I built this SCX10 for speed, and want to see what it will do, or maybe get a different brushless esc and motor.

[kgb424]

ok I made this aluminum plate to mount my second set of brake lights, and a Proline fuel cell, and a Proline nitrous bottle, would have painted the plate black but its too cold to paint, and I figured out how to mount my spares, looks kinda like a desert truck, going to mount some Scx10 body posts to the plate so I take the body off and on and need to mount my light bar and radio box.

[kgb424]

I mounted my receiver box, first I made the plate, then I attached some servo mounts to the plate. Then I mounted the box to the servo mounts. so it serviceable the box comes off, the mounts stay in place. need make my rear body mounts and mount the light bar.

[kgb424]

I changed it from brushless with Castle AE-3 esc, with a Castle 2900 Kv motor out of my Exo, and don't want smoke it, so changed it, to my spare set up of a brushed Tekin Heavy Duty 35t and AE-2 esc, maybe I'll buy me a couple 3s lipo's and see how squirrelly I can get them.

[kgb424]

I mounted up my light bar above the windshield, to drop it down a little, too give it a desert truck look, and I mounted my light controllers, and soldered up a short cable that goes to separate battery too run both set of lights, with separate switches, I like how the light bar came out.

[kgb424]

I wired up my jeep honcho also, and made cable for both light controllers to run off a separate battery, and I mounted light switches in body by the back seats.

[kgb424]

I got tired of the bad steering angles and the over all performance of the Csm's and Hard Pan bars, so I removed them and put the steering servo's back on the front axles, and I also removed the Gcm Motor Forward kit, I didn't like it, it was unbalanced, too much forward weight. And also four linked the axles, and no more bad steering angles, and it has better performance. and bought a bunch of new parts for both trucks


for the trial Runner Honcho and Jeep Rubicon Crawler

aluminum rear lock outs
aluminum c hubs
aluminum knuckles

12mm Aluminum locking hex hubs

Robison Racing Tranny gears
Axial metal 20T Drive Gears

Proline 1.9'' SX Super Swampers XL's
C.I. Double Deuce Foams

another set of 1.9'' Dog Dish rims

Wraith shocks 100mm, I changed out the rod ends from 103mm to 100mm

shock tower droop kits

looking at a Novak 18.5T Sensored Brushless motor for the Jeep crawler for controllable crawling and torque. and a Novak 13.5t Sensored Brushless motor for the trail runner Honcho for speed and wheel spin.

[kgb424]

I got the cab of the Honcho mounted, I made my own rear body posts, it is now mounted solidly, and looks pretty good.

[kgb424]

I made some plates to fill in the open spaces, on my Honcho, and my Jeep after I removed the motor forward kit, and made another battery forward mount with straps, still need to figure out where to esc, I now have room to run a battery for my lights.

[kgb424]

ok I got one set of my Super Swampers Xl's and C.I. foams and 3 ounces of weight in each wheel, and I turned the nuts around so you see the stainless steel screws, now if the rims were black the stainless steels screws would set it off. but they still look good even if there not black, got a second set of Dog Dishes coming in the mail.

[kgb424]

I got my Robison Racing Gears for both transmissions waiting on my Axial metal 20T Drive Gears then I will rebuild both trannie's, and I got my Shock Droop kits cause I running wraith shocks, set at 100mm by changing rod ends out until I got the length I wanted.

[kgb424]

I got my shock droop kits installed, the back ones on the Honcho had to be cut to fit around the Truggy Cage. I like the look now, its not so lifted like before, but still clears the fenders when flexed.

[kgb424]

just pulled the trigger on two sets of these, going to build two bullet proof transmissions, with Robison Racing Gears and Axial metal drive gears, So now I can run Sensored Brushless motors.

[kgb424]

I got my Novak Timbuk2 esc's in the mail today, the first one on the left is my Novak Micro Pro out my 1/16 crawler with Novak Sensored 18.5T 380 motor. they are the same size, take the same size fan, the setups are the same. On one of the Timbuk2, the guy before me cut the on/off switch off, and soldered a jumper, very short to the circuit board, but I was able to get the old solder and wire out, and was able to solder on a extra switch I had in my parts box. So now they all got working switches.

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by kgb424

I made my own third upper front link, and I also made my own curved hard pan bar, It doesn't hit the axle housing like it did, when it was just a straight bar, I also clocked the axles the best I could, the drive shafts spin freely, no binding.

More likely the link was hitting because you are using the dingo CMS plate the Honcho plate moves the servo and pan hard fwd a little and helps the clearance.

[kgb424]

I got my aluminum rear lockouts installed, they are Gunmetal Gray couldn't get black, and I my aluminum C-hubs and Knuckles on both of my Scx10's and got my second set 1.9'' Dog Dish rims with my Super Swampers XL's mounted up. they look good to me. And two poser shots of the flexibility after the 100mm shocks and the shock droop kits and the 1.9'' Super Swampers XL's, looks good to me.

[kgb424]

I mounted my receiver in a box and Velcro it down in between the front shocks and mounted my No Brainer BEC on top off the radio box. And in the back under the Truggy frame I mount a Scx10 radio box to put my light controllers and on/off switches for them. and will need to redo my wiring again

[kgb424]

I just bought two Tekin 13.5T Redline Sensored Brushless motors, hope they work Novak Timbuk2 esc's, and bought new AXA 1218 and AXA 1225 bearings for both transmissions, and 2 14 gauge brushless motor connectors sets and 2 Mips 10145 center driveline kits, new drive shafts for both rigs.