Looking for low budget crawler

[gotmuddy]

What are you doing for a motor? Them stock motors suck balls for crawling.

[mikesativa]

Well, I was planing on using the stock motor for the initial trials. Then I was thinking about a 45T pro motor. I want to find a good balance in torque and speed. Who knows, maybe I'll like the stocker


I have 2 1100 2/3 A packs to use with this. I was thinking 2 packs (parallel) and mounting one battery on the front axle and the other one toward the center of the chassis( opposite the motor ) on the side.

I won't be able to start for at least a week so I'll have plenty of time to think about the power situation.

[mikesativa]

Well I finally did it. I got out all my RC stuff and I'm in the middle of doing a quick organization and looking to see what I may have availible for this build.

I have a bunch of Savage tierod with ends that are 4.5" long for lowers and also some adjustable upper arms from the savage to use as uppers in a 3 links suspension.

I've never seen a TLT and I'm still waiting to get mine so bear with me on the newbie sounding questions.

1. About how long are your rear links on a TLT with a 12.5" WB? On a 60/40 chassis.
2. I wonder if I can get savage knuckles to work with the TLT axles.
3. Then I can just slap on some narrowed Savage stockers as long as there isn't an clearance issues with the wheel offset.

Anyways, just jotting down my ideas so I check them out later.