Youngblood's monster truck build

[Youngblood00]

It's not much but it's a start. Need to determine what chassis I want to run yet but I'm leaning towards the trx4. Whatever it is it's gotta be a solid axle chassis.

Anyways I'm sure these are familiar to everyone, Jconcepts Tribute wheels, and their Firestorm tires. I'm a fan of the traxxas underground video where they stick their drag race brushless engine into the trx4 and it goes 50mph so I think thats part of the inspiration for it. Eventually I want to do a more monster truck style of chassis but I think the trx4 will be a good start.

[Youngblood00]

Got a bit ahead of myself, I was going to hold off on buying the kit yet but I just couldn't wait any longer. Not even through a full battery yet but I can tell this will be a fun machine. Since these pictures(took them last night before I even ran the truck much) I removed the bumpers and trimmed the nomad body a bit, It's not exactly a great fit since it's an old body meant for I believe a T-maxx style chassis. But this is just until my ramcharger body is painted up and ready to go. I'm thinking I'll buy a skully body from traxxas and get that done up as my go too "monster truck" body and the ramcharger will be for crawling/scale stuff.

Anyways as you can see Jconcepts Tribute wheels, Jconcepts Firestorm tires, a Long arm lift kit from traxxas and obviously the trx4 builders kit. Wrecked my shift servo already and from my reading I didn't adjust the setup properly I'm guessing so I'll replace it eventually. The stock steering servo is weak but usable with the big tires as has been discussed at length here.

[doublej]

That is complete awesome!! Any body off photos?

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[Youngblood00]

Originally Posted by doublej

That is complete awesome!! Any body off photos?

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nothing super special about the body off photos so far it's just a stock trx4 with the long arm kit.

[Youngblood00]

So I bought a Proline Ramcharger body and had my local hobbyshop paint it for me(at the moment I don't really have a good place to paint bodies) turned out awesome

[Youngblood00]

So both above posts were supposed to be put up a week or so ago and I've just been lazy/busy with my daughter. So I've run the TRX4 monster truck a couple times and burnt up two different servos(shift servo after I didn't adjust it properly and then a rear locker servo after an attempted adjustment lol).

It's cool and works really well. I threw in the 12t motor out of my bandit. it was super fast but having to run the 12t backwards because the 21t is a reverse rotation motor eventually let the precious electrical smoke out. so a new motor is required for my bandit haha.

But the other day I found someone selling an SMT10 Grave Digger for a good price, brand new in the box. So being the reasonable person I am I thought about it for a few days and the need to have it became too much so I went and bought it. First things first I made up an adapter to run the traxxas batteries I have already in it. Then I put the jconcepts wheels and tires on, and finished that all off by setting up my chevy nomad bash body to run on it. Out of the box it's a torque monster and pulls the wheels just driving around my living room with a 2s battery.

So I think for now the trx4 will become my trail machine. maybe with the ramcharger body on it, I'm very particular about that one and not wanting to wreck it. So I might run the nomad on both machines just to protect the good bodies lol. And now obviously the SMT10 will become the monster truck. I'm going to do a couple upgrades off the bat. I want a front sway bar for sure and I want to run some kind of rear steer setup. I want to run it like a real truck were it's a toggle to steer it left, right, or straight.