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11-26-2008, 03:46 AM
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i started converting my wheelie king to a crawler: so far i've locked the rear diff, put in a HPI 65 turn motor, made longer upper and lower links, made my own servo mount for ontop of the diff and put on tmaxx driveshafts, heres some pics of it: http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=IMG_0944.jpg some flex pics: http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=IMG_0958.jpg http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=IMG_0961.jpg servo mount: http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=IMG_0964.jpg motor: http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=IMG_0965.jpg theres still a few things i want to do, lock front diff, 4 wheel steer, pro line bead lock rims, pro line flat iron tyres, new body, not too sure what body yet, probably something similar to my savage(background of second pic). Last edited by collins_12345; 11-26-2008 at 04:19 AM. |
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12-02-2008, 07:10 PM
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Looks like a good start!
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12-03-2008, 04:30 AM
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I would flip the chassis around(puts the weight up front) and upgrade those steering links. TCS has a good steering kit.
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12-07-2008, 01:30 AM
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yeah i am def making new steering links. | |
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02-26-2009, 03:19 AM
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alright, i got carried away in my other hobbies and didnt do much to my wk, i got it out the other day and have did a few more mods, new body(not a new one, just an old one i had lying around so i cut it up), locked front diff, made new steering links, replaced my lower links that i 1st made out of and arrow with solid aluminium round bar, i took the battery box and the plate that the reciver sits on out and replaced it with a flat piece of stainless where the esc use to be and mounted esc and reciever on it. so next thing to do is, work out a new battery set up, i am putting battery where the receiver originally was, my options are use normal batter and just cable tie sideways across the top of the chassis or split a 6 cell into 2 lots of 3 cells, or get one of those lipo batteries, i think they are called lipo, are they just the same as a battery out of a minizilla or a mini-T? if so, how much run time can you get out of one of these little batteries. here are some pics: http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=IMG_1091.jpg http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=IMG_1093.jpg http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=IMG_1071.jpg http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=IMG_1088.jpg next things to do are work out battery set up, stronger steering servo, new wheels Last edited by collins_12345; 02-26-2009 at 03:23 AM. Reason: pictures didn't work |
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02-26-2009, 05:04 PM
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| Just jump it! Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cedar City, Utah
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Looks great man ,I like the arrow idea. I might make some camo slider covers for my links! It is possible to fit a 2/3a cell split pack on the axles. I am not sure how good it would fit on there with the shocks in that position. You could ziptie them to your upper links. I made some plexiglass link plates for my rigs.I had mine like that for a while. But if you have a lipo charger the lipos are smaller and lighter and easy to fit places. I have a losi mini-t pack that is 7.4v and 2000mah. On my MRC it last about 2 + hours. On my AX 10 it last 45+ minutes. The lipos take more care with charging and discharging and if your not familiar with the it would be a good idea to read up on them. Maxamps.com has some great info on them. Talk at ya soon.  |
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02-26-2009, 05:49 PM
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I dont know about that servo mount. It would be easier to mount things like batteries and esc out front if you made one that was more compact. Here is a pic of mine.  Just a suggestion.  Makes it alot easier to build around. |
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02-27-2009, 12:25 AM
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i changed from the arrows to aluminium rod because i just couldnt get the rod ends to stay in the arrows,i tried several differnt glues, loctite and arakdite and none would work, so i just changed to the alluminium, they will never fail. yeah i dont really like the servo mount, its pritty chunky, it was just something that i made out of an old piece of stainless which i dodgely cut out with an angle grinder. |
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