Crawler02's axial yeti rtr with the normal upgrades

[crawler02]

Finally had some time to grab some pictures of my yeti, I bought it from rpp hobby back in December and have been reading along here for some time now and have caught the addiction bad! Now all of my fun money goes into this The majority of the upgrades I've done were not due to breakage but rather preventing it by reading along here and upgrading as I could to make it a solid fun rig. Well here's what Ive done so far
Vp trailing arms
Vp lockouts
Vp link mounts
Vp slw front 225 rear 775
Vp dual sheer steering posts
Vp diff cover
Strc motor mount
Strc bearing caps (rear)
Strc cage stiffer
Strc shock plates
Strc shock tower
Strc front pin mount
Strc steering kit
Strc caster blocks
Hot racing knuckles
Hot racing slipper plates
Hot racing spool(rear)
Axial hd gears stock ratio(rear)
Bmrc turnbuckles
Uc fab rear upper links
D-lux u4 rear truss
D-lux wraith mod housing (rear)
Castle MMP
Tekin pro4hd 3000kv
Castle bec
Savox sa1231sg(bad fit for yeti)
RR 12t extra hard pinion 5mm
Crawler innovations bumper insert
Crawler innovations 6 bolt rims 1" wide
M.I.P rear shaft

[Rockwolf]

Hott damn whats not to love about a well broken in Yeti!

I will sit down and commiserate with you on the YETI FEVER, because I'm pretty sure I'm about 2 weeks away from living in a box, and probably a few days less than that away from bachelorhood

Those damn Yeti's

[Rockwolf]

oh yea i forgot, Great upgrade list on that beast mode yeti of yours and.........

whats with the Subaru sticker

[crawler02]

Not a damn thing not to love here thank you sir! The subaru sticker snuck its way on there from my tamiya xv-01 kit but that's a completely different thread and Fever!

[crawler02]

Well finally destroyed my second stock bearing on the yeti time for fast eddy bearings

[Rockwolf]

Eddie to the rescue yet again

[crawler02]

Got just a couple more parts for the yeti I won't be installing just yet though. Im waiting for the D-lux front end setup to be ready with the new locker as that will be my next upgrade I do to this thing
Axial hd bevel gears 13/38
Axial 64t steel spur
I also changed the tires out to my r35 ripsaws on c.i 6 bolts

[crawler02]

Well got some free time so I installed the steel spur, and hd gears in the front end with some heavy diff fluid for now. Took it out and ran it hard all day on the rocks and toward the end of my run I had my rear mip shaft come apart and I almost lost the male shaft and all the parts! Luckily I found it all and got it back together with some red loctite an left it to cure overnight

It was at this point I also noticed I had broken my rear truss somehow and after talking to the man himself I think it broke by dumb luck not a strength issue at all but I will be upgrading to the G10 version (most likely) of the truss once the D-lux knuckles/shafts/locker setup is ready to order again.

[redsawacs]

NORMAL upgrades???? I think you should have bought the chassis and all your upgrades and saved the 300$ on the vehicle you have sitting as spare parts! LOL

[DTB1]

Yeti looks great, what foams are you running in your ripsaws?

[factorybelt]

Originally Posted by redsawacs

NORMAL upgrades???? I think you should have bought the chassis and all your upgrades and saved the 300$ on the vehicle you have sitting as spare parts! LOL

I should have done this as well. In my defense, winter was really long this year.

[crawler02]

Originally Posted by redsawacs

NORMAL upgrades???? I think you should have bought the chassis and all your upgrades and saved the 300$ on the vehicle you have sitting as spare parts! LOL

Now where would the fun of been in that? From day 1 this thing was released I knew I had to have it in stock rtr form to see what my thoughts where and see how far I wanted to go with it


DTB1 I'm running the stock axial foams still in the ripsaws that came with my wraith kit. They are not even close to up to supporting the weight of this beast though I checked this morning and it's got a case of the flat tires lol. I'm hoping to upgrade to some voodoo u4's soon.

[DTB1]

That's what I am running on mine and I like them. But I really like the hill climbing performance that the ripsaws have provided on my wraiths. The voodoos are great tired but I feel they may need to be cut for loose hill climbs and I don't like cutting tires.

[crawler02]

Speaking of just buying a chassis though...I laugh at the fact that eventually my chassis will have worn to the point I buy a new one. Heres the belly of this beast after quite a few packs on the rocks, my vp trailing arms are finally starting to stop hanging me up on rocks everywhere and I have not bent a single hinge pin since going to rpm arms and the strc front pin mount!!

[crawler02]

Originally Posted by DTB1

That's what I am running on mine and I like them. But I really like the hill climbing performance that the ripsaws have provided on my wraiths. The voodoos are great tired but I feel they may need to be cut for loose hill climbs and I don't like cutting tires.]

That's good to know thanks for the insight I do a lot of wide open dirt hill climbs as well ever since adding the pro4 hd. That yeti of yours is a thing of beauty man makes mine look like a beater lol

[DTB1]

Yours makes mine look like I'm not tapping into its potential at all! I have been considering getting a truss like yours for the rear of my yeti. Did you have to alter your upper links any for it to work?

[crawler02]

Originally Posted by DTB1

Yours makes mine look like I'm not tapping into its potential at all! I have been considering getting a truss like yours for the rear of my yeti. Did you have to alter your upper links any for it to work?

I absolutely love the truss and can't wait to get the stronger G10 version on here soon! I did have to also purchase the D-lux upper links that are a bit longer for the truss wich was my only slight downside as I had already purchased bmrc rear upper links.

[crawl-o-matic]

Voodoo U4's climb extremely well bone stock

[crawler02]

Originally Posted by crawl-o-matic

Voodoo U4's climb extremely well bone stock

This is the tire I have in mind when it's time I can't decide if I want to go for the gold or silver compound though.


In other news I pulled the trigger and once axial has there yeti front locker off back order Mr D-lux will be sending me out the yeti front housing with the pinion bearing mod done, front locker/ofna shafts/knuckles/hubs and a G10 u4 rear truss that I cant wait to replace the broken cf truss with.

[crawler02]

Well here the beast rests stretching its legs still waiting on axial for the front locker so mr D-lux can send out my box of goods.