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A huge Thank you to Vanquish Products for their support. Thank you for allowing me to continue to be a Team VP driver. "thumbsup" When you want the best in aftermarket quality, No One beats Vanquish Products.


We have come to learn the stock axle pinion bearings can't handle the load of 4S & 4 pole brushless. I will be installing bushings for the pinion. We have also come to learn that not all gear sets have the same gear mesh or teeth contact. The Axial Under Drive gear set has the best gear mesh and the lowest gearing @ 3.30 (IMO A gear set be offered in 4.30 or a ratio closer to a 1:1 crawler). The Kyosho steel shims are a must when setting ring and pinion back lash. The new axles will have these parts installed:

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Originally Posted by Drail (Post 4734022) time to show it some love"thumbsup" and thank you for outstanding products:mrgreen:

Originally Posted by the DMG (Post 4734026) seen thing in person & its one rig you don't to be in front of ! its a beast ! you need some DmG axle skids for that thing !! pm me your shipping info buddy & ill send u some :mrgreen: The DmG

I like my builds to be clean and simple. The wiring under the hood of this rig is a mess. I lost the CC MMP 1Cell ESC last October at Crawlapalooza when the fast moving stream carried this rig down stream and deposited it in a four foot deep pool. The ESC had not been waterproofed and it fried the micro processor. I installed a MMP to keep it running for local events, but the wiring was a mess. Have you noticed how the Castle BEC's have 1 foot of RX wire? LOL

Welcome to OverkillRC -
Overkill RC has the fix for messy wiring:
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The pair with blue handles is a ratcheting crimping tool for servo/RX wires. I have tried other cheaper tools and they suck. These tools I purchased from Austin at Overkill RC work amazing. I have used them to clean up the wiring on several drift cars and crawlers already. If you build a lot of rigs, these are tools worth buying."thumbsup"

Originally Posted by GIMME SAND (Post 4734335) Amazing Rig. Looks pretty dang real. What are you running for the upper links? Same as the lowers but with a bend?

Originally Posted by frdtrkguy (Post 4734437) Thanks for posting those shims. I have been looking for a good source for the 10x12's.

Originally Posted by Szczerba (Post 4734464) Nice to see the rebuild. It needed some TLC.

Originally Posted by AZINDY (Post 4735638) Looks like a killer rig, great styling too. I'll be lurking around following this rebuild for sure.

Originally Posted by XS NOIZ (Post 4735767) Killer looking rig

Let's get started:

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I decided to build an all new trans for Big Blue instead of a rebuild of the old one. I'm going to use the build up of the trans to demonstrate some mods that can be done to any SCX / AX Trans.

Parts List:
VP Trans Housing
BWD FOFF Motor Plate
Axial Top Gear & Shaft
RRP Steel Idler Gear
RRP Steel Output Gear
C.I. 5mm Steel Lightened Long Front Output
C.I. 5mm Steel Lightened Long Rear Output
RRP Steel 60T / 32P Spur Gear (For Traxxas E Revo) combined with
RRP Steel 88T / 48P Spur Assembly (For Axial SCX/ AX)


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The previous trans in Big Blue used an Axial plastic trans case and Kimbrough 62T 32P Spur gear. Although they never gave me a problem, if and when an errant pebble got in there to destroy the plastic spur, it was an hour to R&R the part. I knew on the rebuild I wanted a steel pinion and spur. I also wanted to gear down from before.

On the final trans, I used the backing plate from this kit:
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The stock plastic housing is cheap and effective, but for tight tolerances...
As an example, the previous trans is pictured below, notice how the RRP Axial Slipper plate hits the BWD motor plate:

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Same trans, but with the Axial slipper unit:
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Same trans, but with the RRP #7960 60T Steel gear for the Traxxas E Revo Modified to the stock Axial Slipper:
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Here is the gear modified to fit the stock Axial Spur Gear Assembly:
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I modifed the gear using my dremel and a diamond wheel point. It cuts very quickly: A link to the bit is here:
7122 Diamond Wheel Point / Model: 7122
I have also done this mod using a small round hand file.

It's a cheap and easy way to get more steel spur gear gearing options. I use a modified 56T steel spur gear on my AR60 based Monster Truck that is a pure basher on 3S lipo and 4 pole 3800KV brushless. Here's a video of the MT in action:
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With Big Blue it was important to me to gear down for a smoother start up and greater drag break. The 60T E revo gear will accomplish that a lot more than the 56T from the slash.

If you do this mod, you will need three custom length bolts to mount the spur gear to the slipper unit. I used 10mm length with 3mm aluminum spacers to get the exact length I wanted. The spacers also help to hold the spur gear securely.
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Continuing on with Big Blue:

RRP which is short for Robinson Racing Products; finally released a New Steel Output gear this year"thumbsup" For years now I have used the Hard Anodized Aluminum gear with no real failures to report. I have always wanted steel from an American Made company and now we have it.
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Here's the aluminum version:
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RRP released a Wraith part # Steel idler gear last year that is a couple dollars more than the existing SCX / SX part # Steel idler gear.
Steel Wraith:
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Steel AX:
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In laymen terms, they are the same gear. So if you are a baller on a budget, the AX version is the one to buy.;-)
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Originally Posted by ROLANDROCKSHOP (Post 4736057) Looking good Eddie!! Hmmm...wonder how much $$$ will be riding in the car this weekend?? :roll::twisted:

Although I am leaning towards not making the 5mm Transmission Outputs again (and I am currently sold out of them; so please do not ask), I still want to put the information out there. I'm using long front and rear trans outputs on Big Blue. The 14" wheel base basically requires it. I'm using 5mm outputs because the axles have 5mm pinions. The previous trans had 6mm outputs.

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The dimensions of the outputs are identical.
It does not matter which direction the outputs stick out of the trans.

The C.I. Long Front output design has:
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The C.I. Long Rear output design has:
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Nice, Strong & all Steel;
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All the gears inside the new VP Trans housing ready for grease and final assembly:
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The BWD Motor Plate:
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I am going to try the ROC412 3100KV this time. The Pro4 3300KV was OK. It's biggest downfall to me is the 5mm pinion which limit you to 11 tooth pinion. The 412 has a standard 3mm shaft which makes gearing down even easier.

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If it's electronic and going into a scaler, it must be dipped in:
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Final Trans:
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Motor w/ Trans
60T / 9T 32P Gearing
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On to the axles next. Here is a picture of the previous front Axial HD OD gear Set. Both the ring and pinion were properly shimmed using Kyosho steel shims. If you look closely at the picture, you will see the teeth on the pinion are fine. It's only the ring gear that sustained damage. The AX30401 gear set has the worst gear mesh of the three gear sets available. It also has the worst gearing for a rock crawler @ 2.57. That gearing, coupled with poor gearing at the trans, coupled with 2S voltage = creates a lot of unnecessary issues.

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Originally Posted by Nova's Ark (Post 4734002) I purchased this rig from Szczerba last year. He has a detailed build thread here: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/2-2-s...mblin-koh.html I mailed my wraith axles, scx trans and electronics from the White Lightning Wraith to Szczerba. The build thread on that wraith is here: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axial...ng-wraith.html Szczerba installed the parts and mailed me the rig. All it needed was wheels & tires, a battery and some minor tweaking. It's been to a number of National & local G6's. It's also been used as a test truck for Crawler Innovations products. The axles have seen better days, and the truck is due for a complete rebuild. I figured now would be a good time to create a build thread and share the truck. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7442/...0414ca8c_o.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/...4a772327_o.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/...f0aeef3e_o.jpg https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2829/...6b50a72f_o.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/...f123845c_o.jpg https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2908/...f470a0d4_o.jpg

Originally Posted by RMack (Post 4736435) This thread is pure crawler porn so far. Looking forward to more.

Originally Posted by capthook (Post 4737122) Sick rig! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by RockKook (Post 4737165) Nice tuber example....bump to top.

Originally Posted by Cmarcan167 (Post 4737273) When you waterproofed the motor, did you just dip the entire thing in that cup if corrosionX? Or did you remove things that can't be seen in the pic?

Originally Posted by Nemo (Post 4737376) this rig looks bad ass! i would make it like a scale rockbouncer with a 35t motor for a little speed but still able to crawl. put some TTC baja claws on it aswell and some currie axles by vanquish.

Thank you for all the kinds words guys. "thumbsup"


Update on this build:


If you have ever been separated from your rc group, while in the woods at night, with nothing but the lights of your RC car to use, and you had to stop driving the rc car and carry it, to make sure you have enough battery to power the light to illuminate your hike back (this happened to me)...

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Attended a RECON G6, forgot your personal head lamp, got separated once again from your RC group, and your trying to find course flags from 30 feet away in the dark using only your standard pathetic RC car lights (this also happened to me)...

Then I highly recommend:mrgreen::

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I went ahead and bought (Yes I paid for them, I am not sponsored) four MORE light bars at the RECON G6 in Missouri. This was the second rig to receive new light bars. I had to reroute the existing leds and decide how to best install the new light bars.

Although these light bars are spendy, as the saying goes... you get what you pay for and these MORE LED light bars are top quality.

Wow what a difference! Especially over the old set up. I'm only running them on 9 volts! They can handle 12.6 volts :shock:

Couple pics out on the rocks with the bars installed but not turned on:
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Re-purposing of a Texas plate and re-purposing the two old headlights to now be rock lights:
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The lights turned on:
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One of the old roof lights was re-purposed as a motor compartment light:
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The other two roof light wires were attached to LED light tubes from hobby partz and run under the floor board between the skid:
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