My Home Built Clod
 

After 10 years of sitting in a box I decided to get the old girl back out. I decided to go online to see if I could still find parts and to my surprise I found a whole new world of RC Crawling!!!

Thanks to advice from this great forum, I have now locked my diffs and given the truck much needed finishing and repairs. Thanks for all the great servo mounting threads!

I would love some feed back on my design, especially suspension.

Here is my truck. Still needs a new body, any good recommendations.

3D rendered side view:
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5650745_n.jpg
3D rendered top view:
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5346179_n.jpg
How she looked the last 15 years:
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._4182269_n.jpg
After a little loving care: no electrics:
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7870451_n.jpg
Ready to run!
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5177250_n.jpg

Current Set up.

Old Stampede shocks
2 Tekin rebel esc
2 P2K pro motors

Looks cool. Seems to have some nice articulation. How's it drive? I'd like to see it with a body on it. Nice work!

Thank you
 

I am working on a body design now, that's why I am doing the 3D renderings. Because of the way suspension works any pre-made body must sit to high for my liking.

After a little more tuning tonight I have a full 90 degrees of articulation!
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2227018_n.jpg
Top vew
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7989923_n.jpg

Wow! I see what you mean about the body. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

A little fun in the rocks
 

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5664993_n.jpg
I will try to get my wife to take a little video of it running on her day off.

Body Plan
 

Here is the body plan. Let me know what you think.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7428548_n.jpg

Looks like it's going it be made from tube? Might get hung up after a roll over on that tail. Mabye something more rounded at the end?
Looks funky and cool though 8). I dig it!

For old times sake
 

Before I fully finish the conversion to super class crawler, I decided to play Monster Truck one last time! This is her highest settings under original hardware.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...8_354241_n.jpg

Back to a shelf queen.
 

About a month ago I bought my wife a Venom Creeper shafty, I love it, and now she got me one for my birth day. Don't get me wrong I will always love my Clod and will keep her till I die. That being said it's time for her motors and speed controllers go to a better use for now. To convert her to a comp ready rig is just to much money!

Same thing happened to my clod, I got a Axial AX-10 and pretty much put the clod on the shelf to collect dust :D

I've got both a creeper and a clod....love em both. I'm just a basher, too much money to make a clod comp worthy in my opinion.

Thinking about selling Clod
 

I have been thinking about selling my clod now! It takes a lot of electronics to run!

sweet
 

looks good hole bunch of flex. when mine flexed that mush got me in trubble when i was in the rooks.

Cough