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12-17-2009, 06:47 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The BoomBoom room
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|  My new Micro
Here's my 1day-old Losi Micro Crawler.  So far I've trimmed the body,relocated electrics,removed shock springs(full droop),flipped tranny,removed all excess plastic & made my own chassis spreaders out of brake-clean spray tubes. They seem pretty sturdy,are definately light & have the perfect inner diameter to tighten down the included hardware leftover from removing the electronics mounting plate. Next on the list is weighing down the rims,trimming foam or doing without the tire foams completely.Sorry the pics are kinda crappy. I'm at work & don't have my camera. Last edited by fordmike65; 12-17-2009 at 07:01 PM. |
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12-18-2009, 11:21 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: lamar
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nice mods. i ditched the stock foams. i put 50 bb`s in the front tires and 40 in the back. the weight really helps! and without the foams, the tires give better and allow the tires to bite, and the bb`s also help the tire not give all the way to the rim.
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12-19-2009, 10:03 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: maine
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the bb's just roll around? | |
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12-20-2009, 04:04 PM
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I have since weighted down the front rims with 3/16 lead rope & star-patterned the foams. I switched to a semi-droop set-up by cutting a few spring coils. I also put a few drops of 1k diff fluid in each shock for lube. Not sure if it will help,but & figured it couldn't hurt. One problem I found is that there's way too much tire glue on these things. I tried to boil off 2 of them,but the damn tires swelled on me & will no longer fit the wheels:-x. My LHS won't have another set for a week. I was hoping to just use the kit tires/wheels until either Losi or the aftermarket comes out with a better compound. As soon as I get another set on it, I'll do some further testing & see how this thing wheels. I might just take the tire foams out as others have done if the star-patterned mod doesn't seem to work out. Maybe there will be some memory foams out soon  |
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12-21-2009, 09:16 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: oly
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the only problem with bb's is since they move around they can cause your truck to be unstable. the advantage is that the weight is right on the other side of the tread. some people like it and some people prefer to use stationary weight | |
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12-21-2009, 05:31 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The BoomBoom room
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I have a set of wheels/tires coming from Horizon . Hope they get here soon. When I attempted to removed the tires, I found that the foams had been soaked with way too much tire glue & big sections were hard as rock! That's why the tires were so damn had to remove. Anyone else had this issue??
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