My first Dingo build

[Crawlerjake]

Hello everyone I am new to the crawler world not the RC world. I just bout a scx dingo kit and and going to be building over the next couple days I will be posting my progress and pics. Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Wraith1985]

Hello, nice to see another Axial owner. My advice on the Dingo build is to pay attention to the lengths of screws closely when building, useing lock tight on the screw inside the driveshafts, lock tight on the tranny outputs and be sure to seat the pinion in the axles. When building the axles sometimes it goes smooth with no interference and sometimes you get binding. When the pinion and ring gear bind it is usually caused by the pinion not being seated all the way onto the bearings in the housing. there is usually a little resistance when they are new, but will wear in from running. Hope this helps.

[micro racer]

FYI, unless Axial has fixed this problem, some of the packages are mislabeled according to the directions. It's weird, all of the parts called for a together, but in a different letter bag. Just a head's up.

Anyway, have fun and take your time.

[Crawlerjake]

Was doing a little more work on it tonight finished Bag A and onto Bag B on a side note I am getting a gmade r1 next week

[sixtyspokes]

My 2 cents... forget about the glue-on walker rims, and invest a little on beadlocks... So much easier to be able to change tires or try out foams. Plus they don't have to cost a lot to work. Axial' own 1.9 beadlocks work great. Have fun! Building is the best part!

[CrawlSD]

Post some pics.

[axial 4x4 crawler]

Yeah get some pics up I haven't seen a dingo in a while lol. A build thread is useless without pics...

[Crawlerjake]

Here is where I am so far finished up bag B and called it a night since I'll be up early to go see the Ferrari Challange tomorrow

[axial 4x4 crawler]

Thanks for the pictures, you're doing good so far...now get it done! JK If I were to suggest upgrades then I would get some aluminum c-hubs, knuckles, lockouts, transmission gears, axle gears, shocks, driveshafts, and so on. If you don't upgrade these things then you could have major chaos out on the trail, you can trust me from experience with this chassis.

[sic1to]

Replace as you break is good advice. You will see that a lot of opinions will surface! The main thing to replace on any kit to me is the knuckles & wheels. The chubs could strip in time but brass inserts fix that cheap,lockouts not that necessary. The shocks & (diff)gears will do just fine. The trans gears is a great upgrade(Hot Racing) just don't buy he one piece gear that Robinson racing offers!!! Also all this depends on motor choice & the weight if the rig! A few searches on any forum will blow your mind with info. Good luck

[Crawlerjake]

Are the transmission outdrives supposed to be like this isn't one side supposed to be bigger

[sic1to]

Not the stock outputs they are the same size on scx rigs. Wraith has longer rear due to tranny being longer to accommodate wheelbase.

[Crawlerjake]

In the instructions it shows you put a picece in the transmission between the outdrive

[Jus]

Originally Posted by Crawlerjake

In the instructions it shows you put a picece in the transmission between the outdrive

That was when the outputs were aluminum. Axial forgot to eliminate that from the directions I guess when they started including the hardened steel outputs.

[Crawlerjake]

Some more progress done now to the outlet mall with the family then to finish when I get back

[Crawlerjake]

Next up will be body color (which my son is picking), motor, speed control and servo, I have batteries that will work should be out there by the end of the week.

[professorcake]

Looking good! I just finished my dingo as well. Here it is after its first test run. Now time to cut/paint the body, im thinking military green. Have fun!