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03-20-2006, 08:24 PM
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| Rock Stacker  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: In the woods
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Very nice work on the nylint, Iam also diggin that 1:1 ya got.
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03-21-2006, 07:27 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: classified
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That came out awesome! Great work, very impressive.  I really need to try my hand at brazing, yours looks so cool!
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03-22-2006, 07:13 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: houston
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Thanks everybody for the comments!  As soon as I can find some time and a good place I will take it out and thrash it. It IS a little too shiny for my taste, time for some rock rash! |
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03-23-2006, 06:19 AM
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| Dirt Addict   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stumblin' thru the parking lot of an invisible 7-Eleven
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Awesome rig! Jay |
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03-26-2006, 12:31 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Homer
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man that thing is sweet !! great job
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03-26-2006, 05:46 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Somewhere in Sweden
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Wow, I have never seen something alike! Very nice job! |
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03-26-2006, 07:53 PM
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Disregaurd any axle strengthening advice that I may have given, aparently I know nothing!! I took mine out on some bigger rocks today and now neither axle is working properly. they are clicking like crazy and the bearings I put in the front knuckles won't stay in, they keep walking out after a couple of minutes of driving. I have tried gluing them to no avail. I am going to rip into the axles and start fresh. I will make them as bomb-proof as I can, and if they still won't hold up, I might have to switch to the dark-side(clod axles! ) I haven't given up yet, but this is their last chance. I think my rig maybe too heavy for them!:neutral:
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03-26-2006, 09:16 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Provo
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dont go clod keep it narrow and scale go with tlt axles |
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03-27-2006, 07:02 AM
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03-28-2006, 06:39 AM
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Basically I am going to eliminate the yellow gear on the end and use the black gear (normally high range) as my new low range gear. seems to be alot less slack there. Maybe that will help keep the gears from jumping around as much. I am also going to have to add a tamiya 5:1 planetary since i will be removing the nylint yellow planetary. Here's pic.    I'm still sure the metal gears would be alot stonger, but in the meantime I'm going to give this a try.  | |
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03-28-2006, 09:21 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Rock-throwing country
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Looks like a good idea, I like your thinking.  |
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03-28-2006, 10:51 AM
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| Y-Town Crawlers  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Not Hesperia
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I ran something similar to that for a while, and it was an improvement, but it still didn't hold up to 2.2's for very long.
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03-30-2006, 06:42 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: houston
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Well, I got both axles done and so far so good. I can put it on the carpet and put my foot on top of it so it won't move then give it full throttle and it will spin all fours until I put more pressure, then it just stalls the motors. I took it on my back yard course and was relentless with it, still no problems, just stalls the motors even with my 7 cell pack! I wil take it back to the place where I destroyed both axles to start with and see how it holds up. BTW, I also figured out an easy way to set it up to do front digs (burn turns). More on that later! Last edited by getbent; 03-30-2006 at 04:14 PM. |
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03-30-2006, 08:13 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: classified
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Sounds like it should be fine....good luck. My axles are still holding up great. I shimmed the last gear on the planetary so the gears make better contact. So far so good. Keep us updated.
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04-05-2006, 04:33 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: houston
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I have been dogging the heck out of this thing every chance I get and so far no problems, it just stalls the motors if it gets in a real bind. I can hammer down and let it bind up and bounce around until it finds a way up!! Much better than before; not even a peep out of the axles! Here's a few pics of wheelin on the back yard course. She's gettin quite a bit of rock rash, so much for being a trailer queen!!LOL        One day I'll figure out how and I will post a vid, but first I need my tq3 so I can set up a third servo for front digs! |
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04-05-2006, 05:34 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2004
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looks sweet. did you end up putting the tamiay gear reduction in it ?
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04-05-2006, 06:07 PM
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That thing is awesome!!!!! Nice job!
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04-06-2006, 05:32 PM
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Stock with low low mod  Without weak final drive gear ( same total gear ratio as stock)  | |
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04-07-2006, 10:20 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas
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very nce crawler! man I need to get goin on my 1:1 so I can go crawlin when I get my license  lol nice rigs tho!
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04-16-2006, 05:42 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: classified
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How's this awesome rig holding up? Any breakage? Again, great work on this rig getbent!! |
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