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09-10-2014, 11:48 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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|  Crawlinmike's Yeti
Just a place to drop pics as I go along. I'm not making a long boring list of the same old upgrades everyone else has done. Looking to make my own panels this week. Have a new servo, regeared, and tooled around the yard a tiny bit. Check out my tx wheel now ! ;)   Last edited by johnnyh66; 09-10-2014 at 01:08 PM. Reason: title change requested |
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09-11-2014, 07:51 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Body panels cut and fitted. Now time to paint blue and let dry for a day. Then a few decals. Still have my license plate to throw on too.  Going to save my stock body as new to use some other day or sell. Probably sell. Enjoy |
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09-11-2014, 11:05 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: GA
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Your miata?
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09-12-2014, 12:39 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Yep that's my miata ;). 1990 too. Ok guys. I'm pretty satisfied here. My patience has paid off great. Never made panels before. I don't wanna get it dirty now! But I will. After I get my tires and UD gears in.     Really wanted mine to look different. Now it does. |
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09-13-2014, 08:19 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: GA
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Nice I have a 99 Miata.
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09-15-2014, 12:04 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti  Some new soft compound rock grabbers. ;) UD 43/13 out back.... Getting better n better. |
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09-15-2014, 03:15 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
It....floats.... Hahahaha |
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09-15-2014, 09:02 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Reynoldsburg
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
What material did you use for the panels?
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09-16-2014, 09:04 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Very small black pull ties.... And a plastic folder!! Had to think hard to come up with that.  |
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09-18-2014, 10:52 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Crawlinmike's Yeti
Great. Ran the truck twice. Once in back yard for 10 mins w/ 14t pinion. And once again 10 mins around the yard w/ 11t pinion in a heavy rain. All on 2s. Blown off and taken in to dry. Now my esc is as dead as a friggen rock.
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09-19-2014, 07:08 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Sitting in rice did it. Little silicone spray and back at the water. http://youtu.be/XzkK7omlsgE |
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10-13-2014, 01:58 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Well now I have the summit rear shaft since I had a new one in my parts. Also dug in and found some fitting traxxas links and had to make the last two steering links. Tedious to make a fixed link but they turned out great. Especially since I'm just using stuff I already have. I think the fuel tube to center the too big brake line is pretty neat thinking. Maybe in the future I'll grab the long revo rod ends. Only had short. Also found a couple integetrash shocks. Pulled out the guts except for the bottom stabilizer and the last eclip to allow longer travel. They add a touch of weight but the looks what I was going for. Faux alum dampeners. And trx links for the stabilizer ;). None was needed yet. Just got an itch to tinker today. Just using what I have here at home.     |
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10-13-2014, 02:24 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Not the best clip, but it's my thread and I'm still tinkering with my slow mo camera. Also the front links on pic.  http://youtu.be/6tRgYIUhHhA |
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10-13-2014, 03:28 PM
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| Moderator   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: chicago
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hey mike, other than the folders you can also get that material cheap from going to the dollar store and buying flexible cutting sheets.  |
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10-17-2014, 05:21 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Thanks hoopty. Unrelated- when the hell is the two speed kit coming through??? I'm going to get impatient and swap in something different. |
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12-06-2014, 10:54 AM
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Got some UFAB trailing arms. They look good and super strong. Had to add shims so the eye to eye matched the stock length, take off shocks and grind the eyelet on the bottom down because it was a bit too wide to fit in, and scrounge up some longer screws because the arms just enough wider that the stock ones don't screw into the nylock on the nuts. But now that they're on they look like they'll last about forever. My shock and "dampener" are no longer parallel.  |
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01-08-2015, 07:56 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Little update. Thanks to winning day 4 of the Xmas giveaways!!!!!--- I used a $25 gift card and got a VP steering rack! Sweet. Annnnnd. Fooling around with different offset traxxas 2.2s. Narrowed the fronts to match the 13in outside with with the back. Just don't wanna glue my sweet snow floaters :(. I'm at odds with what to use for tires. I'm 30% these 40% 2.2 mud basher, 30% gladiators. What to do what to do. I can still narrow another 1/4in off the outsides.    Also I need to buy another yeti cage as this og one went to a good cause ;) . |
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06-19-2015, 11:11 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Some homemade panels, some carter fab. I know I won't order from blue monkey again- ordered 3rd and arrived the 20th. Relocated front lower shock mounts as a trial. No real benefit other than looks I think.  |
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06-20-2015, 01:55 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
Neat idea.   |
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10-11-2015, 08:20 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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| Re: Crawlinmike's Yeti
SSD rear going in today. New 500oz servo, aluminum chubs n knuckles, and some paint accents. First U4 race the other day and I was 1st in qualifying and heats, started 1st in A-main but my old analog servo actually failed 3 laps in. A DNF   . But I got a sweet tire bag for TQ    |
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