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05-19-2005, 05:39 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan
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|  My new Twin crawler Well with a time limit of only one week, I picked up a Twin Force at the LHS on sunday, and this is how far I have gotten on it. Its supposed to be going at this sunday's bash. Hope it makes it in time lol.     I have a e-maxx trans for it, just need to make the mounts if I want to use it. Might also just use the stock trans with a GD-600 and extended bones. Haven't decided yet. Also trying to come up with a clean looking steering servo mount for the front. The rear is locked out. so far I haven't had to mod any parts except for drilling 4 holes in the chassis plates for the upper link mounts. I wanted to see if I could do this without hacking it all up. |
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05-19-2005, 11:04 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: May 2005 Location: san antonio
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|  looks like a great start |
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05-19-2005, 10:30 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: burton
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|  are you cuting up the tires? Hope it will turn threw the gates with 2ws My truck flexes about the same. What body is going on it? Last edited by Herzog-racing; 05-19-2005 at 10:56 PM. |
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05-20-2005, 12:19 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: denver
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| looks like you need some thicker links  but looks good  |
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05-20-2005, 01:08 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: glen burnie
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| yeah i was about to say the same thing needs to be atleast 1/4 inch tubing thats my opinion |
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05-20-2005, 05:46 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan
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| I have had good luck with 6-32 links in the past. If they break, I will upgrade. Plans are to have 4ws eventually, but I wanted to keep it simple so I would have a chance at having it done for sunday. Might have to throw it together stock real quick for sunday though lol. |
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05-20-2005, 02:46 PM
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| TEAM MODERATOR   Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tennessee
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| Looks like you need some more triangulation with either your uppers,lowers or both. Your axles are gonna walk all over the place. Other than that looks like you got a clean build going. Personally I feel you need bigger links but stick with what works good for ya. |
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05-20-2005, 05:21 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan
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| Yeah I have since re-done the whole thing. It now uses 2 transmissions so that front and rear is independant, and the upper links are triangulated to the trans mounting plate. |
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05-20-2005, 09:00 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: burton
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| 2 transmissions for front and rear is independant? I don't get it |
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05-20-2005, 09:54 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan
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| Basically with that setup I can run the front and rear axles at whatever speed I want. I can have full throttle on the front, and half on the rear if I want. But for now, I just built the truck back to stock so I can run it Sunday, then its back to building it up custom. I am wondering what it can do stock anyways. Well stock with locked diffs anyways. |
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05-23-2005, 12:09 AM
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| 31st place in 2006 Nats!!   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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| A stock Twin is fun! It'll still go everywhere as long as the diffs are locked up. We had a guy run his stocker for quite a bit.... thing was a blast to drive, mostly because it kept right up all the time.    |
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05-23-2005, 07:08 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2004
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| I love my stock twin! Only wish it was about 3" longer. |
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05-23-2005, 09:19 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Central NY
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I've also seen a couple guys make a rectangular plate that bolts on to the stock support-arm holes for the same extra length. Might've seen that on MadForce.net. | |
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05-23-2005, 06:51 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan
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| yeah the wheelbase is the only thing that really hurt me, and only on the hill climbs. Other then that it blew me away for sure with what it could do, and I was on custom cut stock Maxx tires. |
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05-23-2005, 09:45 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2004
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| I've got the REVO shafts, brakeline tubing, some of the ends, and allthread. Just need the time and a few more ends, then its going to get 4 linked, 4ws, etc. I plan on reversing the motor/trans plate for better weight distribution. Thinking about switching to an e-maxx tranny. I always get hung up on the chain guard that hangs down! Kind of gets annoying! I've done some amazing (to me anyway) stuff so far, Just want a set of Jumbo Swamp Dawgs and a gd600 and I think it will do much better for my style of driving. |
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05-24-2005, 06:22 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan
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| I made the motor plate so that I could slide the motor over far enough to run a 10 tooth pinion to gear down, and then I am running Maxx tires. For power, a Johnson 550 from a black and decker 7.2v drill gets the tires spinning. I am running one 6 cell pack as well. It still will do 8-10 mph I would guess, and you can spin the tires all day long when needed. Seems to be about the perfect gearing. Some of the guys in the club where giving me a hard time because they said it was too fast to be a crawler, but they were just mad I could spin the tires fast enough to clean them out when needed, and could make it a couple places because of wheel speed they couldn't. It was kinda fun leaving rubber on the rocks lol. |
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05-25-2005, 04:48 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: burton
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