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10-02-2005, 06:05 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: College Station
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|  LTL??? Goliath??? I was wonderin which you guys would recomend? The TLT or the Goliath? What advantages does one have over the other? I dont see many Goliaths around on these forums, but many TLT's any advice would be helpful. Thanks JL |
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10-02-2005, 06:45 PM
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| 31st place in 2006 Nats!!   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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|  First look at the price between the two.... $80 vs. $180. Right there makes and breaks most people. Plus the TLT has a lot more hop-ups in th aftermarket world while the PTI is a mix-n-match type of truck. Parts are a lot easier to come by for the TLT.... and most everyone that builds a 2.2 truck has TLT axles. |
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10-02-2005, 06:57 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Crawlifornia Uber Alles
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10-02-2005, 08:08 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Central NY
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| On the other hand, the Goliath is allready a good crawler, and with a few mods using most of the stock parts it could be just as good as the TLT. I think it's like the TXT vs Clod thing w/ the Goliath being the TXT and TLT being the Clod. The difference being the starting price and finding parts for the Goliath. |
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10-02-2005, 08:16 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: College Station
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| Hummm....... Which functions better for rock crawling? Cantelevers or straight shocks? Anyone have pics of a Goliath setup for rock crawling? It looks capable. Thanks guys JL |
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10-02-2005, 09:54 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Central NY
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| Straight shocks are better for crawling. I think there's pics or a link to a modded one here somewhere. If not there's one or two at one18th.com. I don't think I've seen somebody put shocks to the Goliath axles yet. |
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10-02-2005, 10:00 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: College Station
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| Ive never seen a TLT but a bud of mine just got one so ill look at it and see what i think.... Ill probally go with it simply becuase of the amount of things i can find out about them, and avaliability of parts . Although i like the tc3 stuff on the Goliath.... Maybe ill buy both!  |
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10-02-2005, 10:54 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: somewhere on earth
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01-13-2006, 08:19 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: YORK south carolina
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| can so,mebody telll me all the hop ups fora tlt?? i have a stock tlt and know of no hop ups some body help |
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01-13-2006, 08:46 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mobile AL
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| Keep in mind the Goliath has TC3 diffs, plastic ring and pinions and balldiffs... that right there would turn me away from a crawler! but it looks like a cool little truck... Later, Jake |
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01-13-2006, 08:48 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: hillsboro
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01-13-2006, 10:08 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Santa Rosa
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| I don't own a Goliath nor have I seen one in person so I really can't give my opinion on the truck but the TC3 diffs are pretty stout if you get the steel out drives, stout enough to withstand a low turn mod motor for 5+ minutes of abuse through qualifiers and mains for an entire season of racing if not longer. And spools are readily available with the steel outdrives for a reasonable price. Last edited by gone_wheelin; 01-13-2006 at 10:11 AM. |
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01-13-2006, 03:38 PM
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| Get off my lawn!   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
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| The Goliath definitely has potential, but in the same way a TLT does. You buy the kit and throw away everything but the axles. $180 is pretty steep for a pair of axles in anybody's book. One nice thing about the PTI is that you can use a Stealth tranny and the driveshafts will mate up to the axles, since that's the way it comes from the factory, with CVD's no less (at least the one I saw had CVD's; they might have been added by the builder). I'd like to do a Goliath chassis, just for the halibut. I know there's not that many of them out there. Maybe the way to go would be to build it as a scale rig. I could easily modify my Barnyard Buster's skidplate to accept the AE tranny. Now you're talking spendy, take a $180 truck and throw another $250 into the chassis, and it's still not RTR. |
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