My honcho

[arcountryboy]

I guess I'll throw mine up here. Started life as a Deadbolt.




2 hours after getting it I smoked the stock motor. Roland rockshop hooked me up with a HH 30t sport and it went downhill (or uphill) from there! Did some research on here and made aluminum links for it, ordered up some integy aluminum beadlocks for it. 2 days after I unboxed it this is where it was.


I had 4.30 TSL's but didn't like the size so I grooved the treps that came on it. Got tired of the deadbolt body pretty quick so I traded it to roland rockshop for a honcho body.




Painted it on the outside with duratrax metallic green and cleared it.






Made a bedroll, license plate, added a dog, water cooler, etc. The basic stuff.




Went through flex craze for a minute (didn't take long to figure out that massive flex sucks.).




Got a dinky interior kit and built it up, added a full 3d driver, console, scaled maps, etc to it. Fake speakers, wrapped the seat in camo, added camo floor mats, built a camo headliner with working camo sunvisors. Made a cb, flashlight, and a GPS and called the interior done.










At some point in all this I tumbled it down a hill and busted the lexan fender, so I made a metal one, then attempted metal bedsides for it. Got tired of that after a while and cut the front and made metal pinched fenders for it.







Bedsides after a few runs.

[arcountryboy]

Decided it was time for a new body. Got a new honcho cab, painted it the same color.







Got a cheap light kit with signals and all, but wasn't paying the price for axial buckets, so I made light panels for the rear.



Also added a few more scale items and some completed interior shots.













Added a Dingo bumper that I did some shaving on. Also built brackets to lift and bring the bumper in closer





Took it to the Arkansas TTC where it and myself performed like crap.





Decided that wasn't going to cut it. It now sits lower, sitting on 4.75 TSL SX XL's with CI DW foams, aluminum axial shocks, CBE shocks keys and upper link risers, HH 30T Expert, Solar D772 servo, CC BEC, Futuba 4PL radio, underdrive rear with overdrive to come, all metal tranny gears, 3racing winch, and works a hell of a lot better! Also threw on some Dinky bedsides and made brass rocker guards, sandwiched in and out and bolted through.














Pulled out the old light system, wired in T5 12v lights in the front, T3 12v red lights for tails. Got a 8 dollar led work light from NAPA, tore it apart and wired it to a 4.8V battery.











Took it to the 1st scale comp and did much better. Still going to get tubes for the front axles and overdrive gears and call it done for now.

[byrnieman]

Sweet thread. Good read & great pics.


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[arcountryboy]

Thanks!

[EeePee]

Interesting office. What's the white vent thing in the office door?

[arcountryboy]

Return air vent, keeps the A/C circulating when the door is shut. I have a massive computer rack in my office with servers, switches, UPS boxes, etc in it.

[arcountryboy]

Few pics from the arcc geocache g6 this past weekend. 1.5 miles of hellish terrain in the mountains at Hot Springs. Pics by Roland Rockshop. Burned the winch controller and that's the only damage!

[arcountryboy]

The poor old honcho has been abused at comps for a while now. Last outing it performed well but sheared an axle pin and broke a servo mount. I've been spending a lot of time with my TJ build so I figured with it nearing completion I'd show the honcho some love.

Pic at the last comp.


After a tear down, cleaning, repair job, sanded, and painted to match the TJ.

[TacoCrawler]

nice

...I really like my honcho 'cuz it's not a jeep

I like that you got your headlights working...
I've been wanting to do that.

What led/voltage are you running to them ?

[arcountryboy]

Originally Posted by TacoCrawler

nice

...I really like my honcho 'cuz it's not a jeep

I like that you got your headlights working...
I've been wanting to do that.

What led/voltage are you running to them ?

I'm running T5 white LEDs in the headlights, T3 red led's in the tails. These are all 12v and run direct off 3s. They are designed for instrument panels, HVAC panels, etc in cars and trucks. Small, the LED board can be removed from the plastic housing in 2 seconds to be even smaller, and cheap. Bright though!

[arcountryboy]

Ordered some krawler Konceptz plates for it. Abbreviation of my username.

[im gunna crawl]

Thanks for the plate info. Nice rig also.

[arcountryboy]

Well, went out to play last week and she stalled out on me. Jerked the trusty ol holmes out and I reckon it's time for a rebuild. Sure dont remember those brushes being sunk that far in before. Lol

[waw]

ask: are those 1.9 TSL swamper SX or XL? I've been looking the differences between those two installed on a JK.. I know the measurement of each, but then without a proper pic instaled on the rig I still can not decide which to get

thx in advance

[arcountryboy]

Originally Posted by waw

ask: are those 1.9 TSL swamper SX or XL? I've been looking the differences between those two installed on a JK.. I know the measurement of each, but then without a proper pic instaled on the rig I still can not decide which to get

thx in advance

1.9 tsl xl. My fenders have been trimmed also. They are huge.

[waw]

Originally Posted by arcountryboy

1.9 tsl xl. My fenders have been trimmed also. They are huge.

so those wide TSL are the 1.9 XL
thanks a bunch is it relatively heavy? and did you use the stock foam provided in the package or did you swap it with other inner foams?

[arcountryboy]

Originally Posted by waw

so those wide TSL are the 1.9 XL
thanks a bunch is it relatively heavy?

Yes, they are wide. Not sure on the tire itself. Entire rig weighs right at 8 pounds.