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03-29-2006, 02:33 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Cold land
Posts: 224
|  Give me your opinion I am battling myself right now, and I need some input. Please feel free to give me your opinion. I built this red moonbuggy a while back. Some of yo may have seen it. It had a maxx tranny and TXT axles, and was a heavy beast. It's great, fun to drive etc, but I scavenged the drivetrain when I built teh four seater dibble rig for the competition and sold it with it. I dunno why.... So, I have the frame sitting at home with no drivetrain to put in it. I am pretty short on funds right now and would need to buy a whole new drivertrain for it and put it all together the same way I did before. So it would cost me a fair amoutn of time and money to get it up and running again. but it is such a head turner when it is running it might be worth it. On teh flip side, I have a set of TLT axles, one lathe motor, a radio, a superchicken and a pede tranny sitting around, and I would love to build a truggy up to competition spec since several guys in teh MN area are getting into this. So I could just sell the moon buggy and build something completely new as well. But I really liked the moonbuggy too, only probelm was it was so heavy, but I like not having to worry about breaking axle shafts. If I build a lightweight TLT rig do I still need to worry about axle shafts snapping? I really dont like having to do maintenance on axles.... So, what do YOU think I should do? My brain is too full of other things to think well about this..... |
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03-29-2006, 02:40 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Cincinnati Ohio
Posts: 1,681
| I just switched from a heavy maxx tuber to a lightweight SW2 TLT, and I LOVE the TLT! It just goes anywhere you point it! Plus having the lexan body instead of the heavy tuber is a definite advantage, as the lexan body gives when in a bind, where the tube frame will not. I don't have enough experience with the TLT yet to tell you about axle shafts, but I know EeePee ran his for quite a while and only broke one shaft. But the TLT axles are 100 times easier to open up and replace parts compared to a clod/maxx |
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03-29-2006, 02:43 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Fairbanks, AK
Posts: 593
| How about keep the moonbuggy on the shelf till you get the funds to put it back together and just build a 2.2 since you have almost everything for it already. This way you get the best of both worlds. |
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03-29-2006, 02:58 PM
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| It's a setup!   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
Posts: 12,905
| Let me know if you decide to sell the moonbuggy. |
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03-29-2006, 03:21 PM
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| TEAM MODERATOR  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chit Chat
Posts: 14,103
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I've done a TXT in many different forms, I've done a Stick Clod. I have a Jefferson TLT, and I FREAKING LOVE IT. I slapped together a TXT 14'r (14 inch WB), and the few times I've gone out driving, I'm wishing it was the TLT. Keep the Moonbuggy, you seem to want it. And like mentioned, you have all the TLT stuff, so just make a simple chassis and have at it. You can decide to keep, or sell, the Moonbuggy thing at anytime. I don't think now is the right time, you're indecisive. | |
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03-29-2006, 04:04 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Minneapolis
Posts: 409
| Sounds to me like the choice is obvious. You already have most of the parts for a TLT. Use the brakeline and build a tuber. It'll be ALOT lighter than the solid stuff you've been using. A 2.2 certainly makes that rock pile behind that strip mall alot more challenging. I would hang on to the moon buggy chassis, you can get it going again someday. Most of the guys in MN have 2.2's, bigger field for comps... For the bigger rigs, I think there's a stick and a maxx crawler. |
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03-29-2006, 04:28 PM
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| Get off my lawn!  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 7,528
| My perspective's a little different, I came in with 2.2's and prgressed up to a Super with the Turd, and I gotta say the TLT's are a lot more fun to drive. You have to choose your lines because they're not as capable as a big-tire truck. You can't just drive up any old place and blast over the rockpile. Maybe I need a bigger rockpile for my Super, I don't know (a crawler that doesn't chuck its front driveshaft every 30 seconds would be nice, too). Of the two TLT's I have, I prefer the scaler to the comp truck. Maybe it's the element of challenge, but the more realistic performance of a TLT-based rig really lights my candle. Haven't broken an axle yet, but I've snapped a pinion shaft with an outrunner. Make sure your TLT is one of the later ones with Max Climber axle shafts and you'll be fine. Do a brake-line tuber. You know you want to  |
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03-29-2006, 08:38 PM
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| 2006 2.2 National Champ  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Driving my R/C rototiller
Posts: 7,941
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I drive my TLT all the time, 2-3 times a week. My TXT has only seen action on comp days lately. Shelf the moonbuggy and get building on a 2.2 rig. | |
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03-29-2006, 08:53 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: between heaven and hell.
Posts: 3,376
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ N-UFF said. Build a tuber, keep the moon buggy. Anytime you have to ask others if you should sell something, is a good reason to keep it. You will hate your self in the morning if you sell it. oh how I mis my 89 chevy Z71, and 79 dodge (both lifted with BIG motors). Sorry I have to beat the crap out of myself again for getting rid of em. |
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03-29-2006, 08:57 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The other Crawler State
Posts: 1,254
| I too would like to know if you want to sell the moon buggy. personally I would keep it though, it is a peice of art in my eyes and a one of a kind. |
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03-29-2006, 09:19 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: wyckoff, NJ
Posts: 636
| i had a big crawler first and thought it was amazing then built a tlt and havent touched my big crawler since. |
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03-29-2006, 10:03 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
Posts: 844
| Shelf the buggy and build a TLT. Of all my rigs, I enjoy the TLT most of all. I have snapped the 'buster axles but I was pretty hard on them, the 'climber axles are cheap and easy to replace. |
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03-29-2006, 10:13 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Clovis, NM
Posts: 798
| You wouldn't have taken it apart in the first place if you wasn't over it. Sell the buggy build your new ride, after all you built the first one you could always build another, that's lighter. |
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03-29-2006, 10:29 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The other Crawler State
Posts: 1,254
| TLT's are fun, but I still like my big truck best. My next build will be a scale big truck old school unlimited full bodied comp cut style rock crawler. If I can find a big scale Willy's body, I would like to recreate "Pinky" |
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03-30-2006, 12:16 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2005 Location: omaha
Posts: 862
| Keep it. I have built 50 or so chassis in the past 14 year and wish I would have kept every one of them. It is good to look back on what you have done to show you what to do. Wow, that was kind of deep  |
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03-30-2006, 08:53 PM
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| Mayor of Bedrock  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 1st and Amistad
Posts: 2,261
| Personally, I'd keep the moonbuggy, a classic, but.... if your short of funds and you wanna sell it and keep it close by in Mn, I'd be proud to own it. It would be a beautiful shelf queen and show rig. As for breaking axles, first small informal Mn gtg I was at, I broke one of Rerocks axles shafts and never bound her up. Edit: Cash in hand today, Fri 3-31, LMK Last edited by freetimecrawler; 03-31-2006 at 12:09 PM. |
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