Hustler style full droop Wheelie King

[TONKA TOY]

t-maxx hubs & shafts are friggin brilliant ............ I dig it........

[lonewolf039]

Got some more done today, made some body panels out of some thin aluminum sheet I had laying around. Painted the frame and panels. Replaced the stock HPI servo in the rear with a hitec 645mg servo. Made new steering links to replace the wimpy turnbuckles I was using for testing. Hopefully tomorrow I will get the electronics back in, I'm dying to get crawling again.

[Harley]

necessity is the mother of all inventions as they say. Oh the things you can do with parts you have laying around.

Honestly that is probably my second favorite WK yet!!!!

Kind of funny though, I was just talking with someone today about max sized tires on these axles. I just hadn't seen this buid obviously.

Josh

[Cslax06]

Wow I am impressed. Looks top notch...maybe even a cut above!

[lonewolf039]

Got the electronics in, did some crawling, broke 2 more stock axles. I don't recommend running a lot of power with the Max size tires. Now I am going to have to order another pair of max cvd's and convert the front. I also want to gear a bit lower. The stock tranny doesn't have much reduction built in, so I ordered an R2 tranny from RC4WD.com. I am running a 72 tooth 32 pitch spur with a 9 tooth pinion. The wheel speed is a little excessive, as it will spin donuts on my cement shop floor.







BTW, there is still snow banks up here in the great white north.

[ColquittCustom405]

I got to give it to yah,I'm impressed.Nice rig bro! Freakin sweet! What's all that white stuff outside? It's April?????

[FrankyRizzo]

Originally Posted by ColquittCustom405

It's April?????

Tell the CO guys.

[eric113]

Are the cvd's the narrow or wide ones ?

[lonewolf039]

Ya, spring is a little late this year. The snow is melting fast now tho.

The CVD's are the old ones from my original maxx before I went widetrack. Any size would work, as you have to cut a fair bit off to get them to the right length. The main thing was to find ones the right diameter to fit in the diff.

[Natedog]

Those look like MIP CVDs.

[JasonInAugusta]

Nice rig! Haven't had much time to get on hear and read through the threads...finally had a chance to check this one out.

Hammer, vise, drill, and a band saw. That's the way to do it.

[lonewolf039]

Natedog, yes they are MIP CVD's. They have been sitting in my junk box for years. I am terrible for not throwing stuff out, just in case. If you look close, you will see that they are twisted and cracked at the diff end. I cut off the bad part.

JIA, thanks, it just takes a little elbow grease.

Now I just have to wait for parts. I'm kinda disappointed in the stock axles. I broke 3 axles so far, and they are hard to get.They would probably be good for 2.2 size tires tho.

[blue-beard]

Your rig looks great. So how do you like the narrowed mashers? Did you just cut out the 2 center treads and glue them back together? Thinking about doing the same to mine, they just seem so wide for a tire thats only 5.5" tall.

[SnailMail]

very nice! did you per chance have a sketck of those aluminum plates for the maxx knuckle adapters that you could post? with measurments?

thanks

[Big Mike]

Lots of well thought out modification going on with this one.
That knuckle conversion is trick! Good thinking there...

[gravelcrawler]

looks great ihave one of those R2 trannys on order from rc4wd it should be here sometime this week so i can start my next tuber

[lonewolf039]

blue-beard, yes I did just cut out the center treads and glue them back together. They seem to work pretty good, the only thing I can compare them to is the 2.2 moabs I tried for a day. They were too small tho and hung up on everything, so I went with the Max Mashers. I am still thinking about cutting out the sidewalls and using the 2.2 moab sidewalls tho. The good thing about the big rim tho is that you only need 4 oz of airsoft BB's to fill the tire half full and it gives good support, but I think they would look better as 2.2's.

SnailMail, Sorry I didn't make any drawings. The first one I just cut and drilled until everything looked like it would work, them just copied it for the rest. I will go take some measurments for you and post them.

[lonewolf039]

OK, here are the dimensions.

- 1/8" aluminum flatbar.
- 16 mm wide
- 23 mm long
- First hole, drilled and tapped m4 for the kingpin screw, 5.5 mm from the side closest to the axle.
- Second and third holes, drilled 3 mm and countersunk, 13 and 18 mm from the side closest to the axle.
- The Max hub is cut down to the bottom of the threads for the pivot balls. Basically I just sanded them down until the threads were gone, carefully keeping it square.
- The kingpin hole should be centered over the pivot of the CVD, drill 2.5 mm holes in the hub to secure the adapter plate with m3 countersunk screws.

Here is a crude drawing, not to scale, but it has the measurments. Hope this makes sense to you all.

[Extreme4x4Crawler]

I like the CVD idea, i won't be running that big a wheel tire combo on mine when I get it, Nice chassis too

[hkusp45]

Great work!!

You got some skills for sure!