My TLT Clod

[SXV 550]

I am building a Clod crawler based on a stock TLT chassis.

The stock TLT chassis was laying around in the garage after building my TLT tracer brushless.

I started with a tuber chassis, but thats not my thing i need a body on my crawler

(Tuber chassis for sale )



Orderd some upgrades..





and start building on my TLT Clod.





and changed it in to this



home made servo mount



Upgraded the shocks







The roller with body, and custom build body mounts



Changed the under links into massive 8 mm alu



Update with body



Some experiments with the shocks, i still dont know what the best solution is.



The beadlocks mounted ( just for the pic, there are no inserts )





The bearings



Mounted the bearings and two Team Atlas 60 turns motors.



parts that are orderd...



and two Towerpro digital servo's

regards from the crazy Dutch man.

[mysharona]

wow that thing is sitting sky high!

I really like what ya did here, the only thing is the way you have the servo mounted. good job on the mount, but don't you think that it puts the servo a little far out front? I would worry about it slamming into rocks. Itegy makes a nice alumninum servo guard for the maxx trucks, I bet it would save you many servos...

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXMJM5&P=7

nice job!

[SXV 550]

The servo's are moved to the left of the axles,..

[mavicracer]

it looks to me like your upper links might be too long. I would try to shorten them just a bit to bing the axle back down to level. that way you would not be messing up your steering. but, it could also be the pictures. you are sitting a bit high, like mentioned above. if you do not bring you COG down, it will be roll over city when you are out on the rocks. Good luck with this build.
Steve

By the way, are those MOAB XLs on standard beadlocks? they look short

[SXV 550]

Originally Posted by mavicracer

it looks to me like your upper links might be too long. I would try to shorten them just a bit to bing the axle back down to level. that way you would not be messing up your steering. but, it could also be the pictures. you are sitting a bit high, like mentioned above. if you do not bring you COG down, it will be roll over city when you are out on the rocks. Good luck with this build.
Steve

By the way, are those MOAB XLs on standard beadlocks? they look short

The MOAB are XLs on 40 beadlock.

[cartronicshn]

Looking good, have you tested it yet? i ask because i have 5 of my rigs on fm 40 ch acoms radio, and i bought some yeah racing crystals for my receivers and ended with a lot of glitching:neutral:, i only swapped the yeah racing ones for the acoms crystals and the problem was solved.

[mavicracer]

Originally Posted by SXV 550

The MOAB are XLs on 40 beadlock.

But what Proline beadlock are they on? they make 2 different ones, one for the MOAB, and one for the MOAB XL. It looks like you have the rims for the standard MOABs, not the XL's. One of the rims is narrower than the other, and by the photos, it looks like the combo might be off, but again, like I mentioned earlier, it might just be the photos.

[SXV 550]

Originally Posted by cartronicshn

Looking good, have you tested it yet? i ask because i have 5 of my rigs on fm 40 ch acoms radio, and i bought some yeah racing crystals for my receivers and ended with a lot of glitching:neutral:, i only swapped the yeah racing ones for the acoms crystals and the problem was solved.

The crystals are still NEW, not tested them yet.

[SXV 550]

Originally Posted by mavicracer

But what Proline beadlock are they on? they make 2 different ones, one for the MOAB, and one for the MOAB XL. It looks like you have the rims for the standard MOABs, not the XL's. One of the rims is narrower than the other, and by the photos, it looks like the combo might be off, but again, like I mentioned earlier, it might just be the photos.

The rims are all the same ;) i hope they are MOAB XL.

The Clod is not finishd yet, its indeed a little high but i am working in that

[mavicracer]

I am not trying to give you a hard time by any means, but the only reason I ask, is because proline makes 2 different beadlock rims for 40 series tires. one is the Cheyenne, which is for narrow/narrowed tires. The other is the Commando, which is for the standard width 40 series tires.
The Commandos are 3.4 inches wide, and the Cheyennes are 3 inches wide. it might not sound like much, but it would give you a little more clearance under the axle. the good news is that you can always narrow them. I run XL's on proline standard rims. They were 3.5 inches wide, and I narrowed them to 2.75. with cut foams and weight, they crawl real nice. hope this helps.
Steve

[SXV 550]

Originally Posted by mavicracer

I am not trying to give you a hard time by any means, but the only reason I ask, is because proline makes 2 different beadlock rims for 40 series tires. one is the Cheyenne, which is for narrow/narrowed tires. The other is the Commando, which is for the standard width 40 series tires.
The Commandos are 3.4 inches wide, and the Cheyennes are 3 inches wide. it might not sound like much, but it would give you a little more clearance under the axle. the good news is that you can always narrow them. I run XL's on proline standard rims. They were 3.5 inches wide, and I narrowed them to 2.75. with cut foams and weight, they crawl real nice. hope this helps.
Steve

They are the Commando rims, still stock.

First i will finish the clod, and try it like this. It is not that high as it looks ,It is even lower than a thundertech rage chassis.

[SXV 550]

This morning deliverd two servo's, no waiting for the ESC.