New wheely king owner. with some questions

[1TONCHEVY]

Hi, im new here. after being out for a long time back into this hobby. wanted a crawler. ended up with a new wk for 167. today i was going to take the diffs apart and put JB weld in them to lock them up. i believe 12" is the amount i can stretch it to.

what kit did you use to do it tho? i have been looking at ckrc crawlers website. like there steering. probably going to get that.

since im about to take this all apart, what other changes can i make to improve performance? the tranny is so high up. not sure how to lower th CG.

thanks for the help mike

[Mortimer Snerd]

Do some searching about the best mods for a WK. You'l probably get a few responses here, but they'll be fairly general. The max wheelbase for a comp rig is 12.5". You can also use the Axial lockers to lock your diffs. HPI has come out with a kit to do a crawler conversion for the truck. I imagine that'd be a great way to go. Otherwise, making your own longer links is really easy.

[cartronicshn]

Welcome to the forum, you should go into the wk forum and read the stickies, i beleive there is a couple of templtes in there for your tranny mounting plate, to lower your cog and also some template for servo mounting plates .

[JavelinSST390]

There really isn't too much you can do about the CG with the stock Chassis. You'll have to go to a different chassis to be able to move the motor/trans around to get the weight lower.

I suggest Offroader5's "Widow" chassis. It seems to work great with the WK stuff, and he has templates to just make your own chassis (which means big $$$ savings for you!) Just get some cutting board from your local Wally world and start hackin'.

Custom Chassis'd WK Crawler <--check thsi thread for more info on the widow chassis.

BTW, where did you get a stock WK for $167? For that price I might have to get another one.

Oh, and welcome to rock crawling! Pretty soon you'll find your WK slowly mutating into something it never looked even close to before.

I started with a stock WK, and then it just took on a life of it's own, and slowly turned into this:

[1TONCHEVY]

thanks for the replys. i like the chassis design. never made my own parts before. something new to try.

i got the wk from ebay. it ended at like 2 something in the morning. got it for 167 to my door. i will get the name for you.

thanks

[1TONCHEVY]

forgot to ask, any problems jb welding the diffs?? thanks

[evilbluebunny]

Originally Posted by 1TONCHEVY

forgot to ask, any problems jb welding the diffs?? thanks

No thats what i did, on its still holding strong. Just make sure you get alot in the diff

[resetpunk]

i used stuff similiar to jb weld called "faststeel" its identical just dries much quicker they say 60mins and its completely dry

[1TONCHEVY]

great thanks, hope i can find it.