Chevotafun's Bullied Sudu Pro

[crawlinghulls]

Got it pretty much all back together, but something funky is going on with the front links.

Wondering what was funky??

[chevotafun]

Originally Posted by crawlinghulls

Wondering what was funky??

Me being cross eyed at 12:30 at night LOl

No the real reason was one of the upper link rod ends weren't screwed in far enough and then figured out I needed to put longer rod ends on the front upper to bring the skid up high enough to clear the lower front link.

[crawlinghulls]

Hope you do well at the comp

[chevotafun]

Originally Posted by crawlinghulls

Hope you do well at the comp

Thank you
Comp went well pulled a first place with the new chassis
Truck felt good, still needs a few tweaks but all and all super happy with the way it felt right out of the box.

First time running a 60/40 chassis

Love benign able to drive upside down again

Might need to get some other rear lower links to try with a little less bend as these one hit the uppers, causing some binding and limiting the truck from getting its full flex.

[Erik D_lux]

What stops you from being able to lay the rear links down so they dont hit the uppers?

[chevotafun]

Originally Posted by Erik D_lux

What stops you from being able to lay the rear links down so they dont hit the uppers?

Did that bud but as soon as you hit acouple rocks it goes back.
Also one side is worse than the other.
Not sure why that is as both side measure the same

[chevotafun]

Here are some pictures of how it looks as of now.
Still missing my skins :(

pic-1 just a picture lol
pic-2 Flex shot
pic-3 Fully compressed
pic-4 Full droop
pic-5 Ride height

[Krawler Konceptz]

Got to love the post at CHristmas time...

[Solitaire]

Mike, I think you need to get some better shaped rears. Or, if you stick with those, what about running the rear uppers on the inside of the chassis and spreading the lowers a touch?

[chevotafun]

Originally Posted by Krawler Konceptz

Got to love the post at CHristmas time...

Yes they make no sense.
You send me skins out last Monday and still not here.
Shipped me reptile chassis out on Friday to Calgary and it out for delivery today LOL

[chevotafun]

Originally Posted by Solitaire

Mike, I think you need to get some better shaped rears. Or, if you stick with those, what about running the rear uppers on the inside of the chassis and spreading the lowers a touch?

Not sure if better is the word I would use, but yes alittle less arch might be in order.

[Erik D_lux]

When I say "twist" the rear lowers.... I mean TAHWIST the rear lowers. Almost like you want the radius laying flat to the ground. Looking at your pics above, unless you put them back that way, youre not even in the ball park of where you can twist them.

When you get a chassis that has minimal separation between the uppers and lowers at the chassis, you run into problems like this. My super and the Losi Comp crawler have the same issue. I have made many, many, many sets of links for both the LCC and my super and its an easy way to get around the issue. On top of that, it actually makes the geometry from the rear axle to the chassis much better because it puts the rod ends in a straight line (no binding at all).

If the lowers just come back to the same position after hitting a rock, you either didnt twist them far enough or the plastic in your rod ends is loose and allowing the link to screw/unscrew when they are touched.

Make sure that you twist the link inwards (or even outwards if it works) but make sure when you have the free play of the rod balls that the link only has the range of motion where it flops around and does not hit the upper link. Hopefully that makes sense.

Here is a pic of far I have to lay my supers links down. The upper and lower links would be in full contact at ride height if I didnt lay them down.



Here is a link for more information on how people have always set up the LCC with my lower links since they have the same problem. You can see the LCC twists the bends outwards rather than inwards though. Either way works.

Losi LCC High clearance Titainium Links

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Scores from the day

Randy-Mammoth
Bob-Solitiare
Ray-
Deron-BillyD
Brett- brettd
Mike- Chevotafun

[chevotafun]

Been acouple days now since I have updated things so here we go.

Got the links all worked out, the truck seems to work much better now that the links don't hit.

picture #1
Links touching
#2
Links don't touch anymore after rotating them
#3
shows how much I had to rotate the lower link
#4
Side skins
#5
Roof

[chevotafun]

Also going to be making acouple changes the truck.

Ordered a set of the New Brood Nexus 16T CVR motors with light weight can. Same motor that was used on the truck that won Worlds
For the price of these motors I just couldn't pass them up.

Bearings for my D-lux knuckles should be here today or tomorrow so I can get those installed.

Also ordered a set of orange G10 rims from D-lux to go with the rest of the orange theme.

Oh and we had another comp over the weekend and the Sudu pulled a first place.
Truck is feeling very balanced and predicable now

Randy-Mammoth
Bob-Solitiare
Ray-
Deron-BillyD
Brett- brettd
Mike- Chevotafun

[Zarizi Tech]

Good to hear that SuDu Pro is working for you. Skinz looked killer! Videos?

[ROWDY RACING]

Originally Posted by chevotafun

Ordered a set of the New Brood Nexus 16T CVR motors with light weight can. Same motor that was used on the truck that won Worlds

Same arm only, the rest of the motor is brand new, Manu used Conflux Stubbies to win worlds.

[ROWDY RACING]

Originally Posted by chevotafun

Hmm interesting since I was told that from Eddie himself

You misunderstood what you were told, it's ok your getting the latest and greatest.

[chevotafun]

Yes it sounds that way lol
Oh well like you said getting the latest and greatest

[chevotafun]

Originally Posted by Zarizi Tech

Good to hear that SuDu Pro is working for you. Skinz looked killer! Videos?

Thank you Samu
Video's should be up in the next day or so