weight placement

[dtmcnamara]

ok so i am a little new to the rock crawling. I recently cut my battery tray and mounted my battery a little lower on the rear end. but I am still having problems with my WK wanting to flip on me when i crawl. I have the upper and lower swing arms on order to stretch it but what else can i do to make this thing less top heavy. i was thinking about moving the weight to the front but figured i would ask everyone what they were doing first. THANKS

[sneekysnake]

I would reverse the chassis, that puts the battery tray in the front, along with the weight that goes with it.. I think that makes a huge difference.

[MSB]

it depends how serious you want to get with it, but try to mount everything as low and to the front as possible, plus extending the wheelbase helps a ton

[mastathug0]

build a chassis and mount everything close to the front thats what im doing

[cotharyus]

Originally Posted by mastathug0

build a chassis and mount everything close to the front thats what im doing

That's as bad an idea as putting it all in the back! I've seen this so many times, it's starting to make me wonder. Is this or isn't this, really, all about balance. The truck should come back down as well as it goes up.

[Shoei1]

yes going up is as important as going down. From what i have seen a lot of videos is that most of the roll overs are going down hill. With my weight place ment i have the battery in the front and the electronics in the back. I felt putting the electronics up front was just making the CG higher. just my opinion.

[onecolumbyte]

Originally Posted by cotharyus

That's as bad an idea as putting it all in the back! I've seen this so many times, it's starting to make me wonder. Is this or isn't this, really, all about balance. The truck should come back down as well as it goes up.

Moderation in all things BUT, take a stock wheely king and start driving everywhere in reverse. It will climb double the obstacles this way. I think that points to the benefit of swapping the chassis.

Also, unless you use a custom pack I don't see any options for mounting the battery in the middle of the chassis, that's where the motor and tranny are.

[cotharyus]

Originally Posted by onecolumbyte

Moderation in all things BUT, take a stock wheely king and start driving everywhere in reverse. It will climb double the obstacles this way. I think that points to the benefit of swapping the chassis.

Also, unless you use a custom pack I don't see any options for mounting the battery in the middle of the chassis, that's where the motor and tranny are.

You've got a point. That's what drove me to put a pack on each end

[crazydave]

Well I'm a crawling newb too, but from my experience, I reversed my chassis, and I think it seems more planted over obstacles. It still transfers quite a bit of weight to the rear when I floor it. Overall it doesn't seem as front heavy as I expected.

Its not too hard to reverse it, and the best part, you can easily put it back if you don't like it.

[jonass]

how do you reverse it. do you mount the servo on the axles or have the original mounting and make som longer links

[fungible]

Why do you need to reverse the chassis? Seems like it would be easier to just move the steering links, etc. from front to back and reverse the transmitter control switches. Or is that the same as "reversing the chassis"?