02-27-2011, 09:34 PM | #1 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
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| 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: 3D rendered top view: How she looked the last 15 years: After a little loving care: no electrics: Ready to run! Current Set up. Old Stampede shocks 2 Tekin rebel esc 2 P2K pro motors |
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02-27-2011, 11:35 PM | #2 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Mahwah
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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!
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02-28-2011, 12:34 AM | #3 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
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| 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! Top vew |
02-28-2011, 01:49 AM | #4 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Mahwah
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Wow! I see what you mean about the body. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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02-28-2011, 07:27 PM | #5 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
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| A little fun in the rocks I will try to get my wife to take a little video of it running on her day off. |
02-28-2011, 09:06 PM | #6 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
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| Body Plan
Here is the body plan. Let me know what you think. |
03-07-2011, 03:40 PM | #7 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Alaska
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03-27-2011, 06:45 PM | #8 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
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| 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. |
04-24-2011, 01:11 AM | #9 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 30
| 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!
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04-24-2011, 11:29 AM | #10 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Pinedale, WY
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Same thing happened to my clod, I got a Axial AX-10 and pretty much put the clod on the shelf to collect dust |
04-24-2011, 10:30 PM | #11 |
Newbie Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Santee
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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.
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05-21-2011, 05:08 AM | #12 |
Newbie Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas
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| Thinking about selling Clod
I have been thinking about selling my clod now! It takes a lot of electronics to run!
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06-24-2011, 07:30 PM | #13 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2011 Location: texas
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looks good hole bunch of flex. when mine flexed that mush got me in trubble when i was in the rooks.
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06-24-2011, 07:49 PM | #14 |
MODERATOR™ Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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