New to the crawling scene.

[Pete720]

Hello all. Well after seeing and hearing about "crawling" over and over and my local hobby shop dedicating a part of the store to crawlers I decided to give this aspect of R/C a try. I have been in R/C a long time but mostly backyard bashing and primarily 1/10 nitro touring racing so this is all new. I picked up a Wheelie King, a HPI crawler conversion and some other hop ups and here is what I have so far.

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[grizz]

If you want to crawl I would suggest tummy tucking it for better ground clearence and also clocking the link mounts backwards at 90* so they dont get hung up on rocks.
Like so


you can kind of see the link mouts here.
Didnt fit with the rear with my body so I had to sacrifice it.
What ya goin to do with those thrashers.

[Pete720]

Pardon my ignorance as I am new to this sport. What is "tummy tucking" and "clocking the link mounts at 90" mean and the work required? Thank you for the comment and input.

[grizz]

I'll take a pic. of mine and compare of the clcked and regular stance.

[grizz]

Heres a thread on how to tummy tuck it,
Tummy Tuck How To?
regular stance here



clocked here

[grizz]

here's another thread with cleaner pics of the tummy tucking and clocking link mounts.

Jeff's Low Budget Crawler Build

[Pete720]

That "clocking the link", is that just a matter of taking out the 2 screws that hold the steering block on and rotating it forward and replacing the screws?

[grizz]

Originally Posted by Pete720

That "clocking the link", is that just a matter of taking out the 2 screws that hold the steering block on and rotating it forward and replacing the screws?

Yes thats it.

[collins_12345]

i have also had a change to crawling from nitro off road racing and am really enjoying it so far, going slow is actually good, you dont break stuff as often lol

[kasper]

Welcome to the wonderful world of crawling enjoy

[Nate08]

Originally Posted by grizz

If you want to crawl I would suggest tummy tucking it for better ground clearence and also clocking the link mounts backwards at 90* so they dont get hung up on rocks.

Hate to jump in late....but since you're using the HPI Crawler Conversion your link mounts dont need to be clocked. The stock link mounts perform much better after being clocked 90 degrees but the redesigned mounts in the conversion kit were designed with the "clocking" already built in.