WK tuber in the works

[Sabin]

yep. First time building a crawler and I decided to do a tuber with WK axles.

I looked at how tubers were built and I figured that was the way for me to go. That and with corycrawler's advice on the axles I've made my decision.

Then I got down to the nuts and bolts of planning how I was going to bend the tubing. I figured I'd do it by hand but then that would end up being nothing short of impossible, so no thanks.

Instead, I decided to create a tube bender. Not only would it save my hands but it would give nicer bends.

So here we go. got the bender built, tested it out and it looked good.



That's roughly six inches of brake line there.

I'm going to go with the R2 tranny with dig, either savage or punisher driveshafts, and possibly portal axles, depending on how much ground clearance I need. Brushless? definitely.


I got a great place to test out a crawler too. check these out.

[2JSC]

Those rocks are nice! Almost like a waterfall area. Very cool!

[stonedaddiction]

yeah, man it is super easy to build a tuber around the r2 trans, just remember the output shaft on the axle is larger than the output shaft on the r2, so keep that in mind when choosing your ds, and determining the length of your rig, in retrospect I would have went with jatos or maxxs or somehthing else plastic as far as driveshafts. good luck, once you get started it will consume all of your spare time, espesicially when you get to about 51%

[Sabin]

Update!

so over the past two days I've been forming the design in my head, and I was actually able to get it down on paper.




Right now it's rough looking but I like how the side turned out.

[Sabin]

okay.

I've created a computer mockup of the chassis. It's getting closer to the final design but at least in this stage I can add or remove something before I start the fabircation.

[LST022752]

Great looking chassis! I would love to have rocks like that to crawl on around here.

[Cslax06]

Those rocks are amazing!

[Sabin]

After a redesign, striking out on finding WK axles alone, and well.. life.. I got the WK and robbed it of it's axles, and did a complete chassis redesign.

the new prototype:

[jbrandt]

that kinda looks like an old Cady with the huge wings on the back!

just kidding, not really, but it does look like a cool design, esp for your first tuber!;)

[adam]

thats very cool i want those rocks

[SMOKEY]

your a bastard those rocks are f ing awsome i would kill to have that and what makes is worse for me is that it looks like its in your backyard but in all seriousness nice tuber design and kick ass rocks

[Sabin]

I'm starting to run into issues during prototyping. I've heard people have been running jato links, but for some reason I can't find how long they are ball end to ball end.

[Sabin]

okay well, after virtual testing with artic, droop, turning, ground clearance and whatnot, the design had to be revised.. again.

So I cut out half the lengths, and ended up with what looked like the old design but has half the bits.

And now the design was put on paper (which makes it final) and now the tubing has been cut to length!

[savage25nitro]

what did you use for on the computer drawing??? I think you should have stuck with the cumputer drawing...its different and SWEET looking...Im making an exact 1/10 scale crawler of my buddies real fully comatition rock crawler...check out my post and tell me what ya think..plz thanks

[Sabin]

Originally Posted by savage25nitro

what did you use for on the computer drawing??? I think you should have stuck with the cumputer drawing...its different and SWEET looking...Im making an exact 1/10 scale crawler of my buddies real fully comatition rock crawler...check out my post and tell me what ya think..plz thanks

I would have loved to, but considering I only have a set of 2.2 moabs on some axial rocksters without any sort of added offset, it just didn't work out.

Of course this is not to say I won't have the first revision I did in the future when I order some 40 size wheels with 17mm hex adapters. *HINT!*