Mini Giants

[MGCrawler]

here are the Traxxas tires I smoothed out and put dirt hawg treads on. I know they are far from perfect but I think they will work pretty well. Maybe the next ones will look better.

[Plays_with_Toys]

Might be too late now. I was told a 24hour WD40 bath makes Jugg tires super soft, and they are supposed to be a hard tire as well. Just unload a can into a plastic baggy (sandwhich-ish size). But now that you glued the treads on, I don't know how it will affect them.

[Team-FSU]

i have to admit those tires look bad ass! i need to look around the house at some of my old radio shack trucks and see if they got any good treads that will fit

[MGCrawler]

actually they are pretty soft now I took the angle grinder with some 50 grit disks and ground some of the material as well as the nobs off and made a big difference.

Now I'm stuck for another week cause I only bought a pair of dirt hawg and I don't have enough treads to do the other 2 tires...

[Team-FSU]

go buy a bike tire with good treads and cut the treads from there

[Plays_with_Toys]

Y'know, if you post this over at one18th people are going to be crawling over themselves to get info on the tires and your chassis...

[MGCrawler]

I've got a few pics of it up on one18th and Grafix the owner wanted to buy a bunch of chassis plates but I don't want to go into production with it. I'd like to try doing a better job on the tires but they are starting to get spendy so I only got one try. I've got to go to the HS again and get another pair of dirt hawgs so I can finish the other two tires.

Oh and I got my gear reduction today so look out for a new chassis

[Nitro_Geezer_UK]

Does anyone know if Losi Mini T wheels will fit on the VMG?

[MGCrawler]

Thats what is on mine :? here is my post

It was actually pretty easy to mount those wheels on there... All I did was take the hex drive nuts off the MG and ground them down until they snuggly fit into the mini-t wheels where the bearing goes. I then CA'd the newly shaped drive nuts into the wheel and have had no problems with it. The wheels are all fronts. The tires are a stretch to fit onto the wheels but they work. I'm getting some bigger tires that will fit on those wheels soon and a gear reduction unit like Black magic has... ANd a new chassis.

[Phantez]

Im thinking about trying to get my little brother a Mini Giant for Christmas just for rock crawling. From the looks of the vids. The stock tires are kinda crappy. How do they work stock on the rocks? Did u just glue the diff to lock it? Any simple upgrades for more flex? Thanks!

[mike]

stock tires work great with a couple little holes drilled in the rims. but thry lack in ground clearens.

[MGCrawler]

I just glued the front and rear diffs on mine...

[Team-FSU]

yea i just used good old CA glue to lock mine up!

[mike]

has anyone had problems with the wheel hexes striping out, i've gone through a couple now.

[BlackMagic]

Just get Nylon locking 4mm nuts.

[Plays_with_Toys]

Yeah, I switched to nylon nuts nearly right away.

[mike]

ya those strip easy to, but the torque from the gear reduction just strips out the little flat spot in the hexes

[braceysdad]

Do any of you guys know where to get replacement hexes for the mini giants.

[mike]

i looked at the LHS today and they didnt have any so i might tri to order some.

[MGCrawler]

RC boyz one ebay have them listed. Its under steering rod set. they want 5.99 and 1.50 S&H. THE part # for the set is VEN-4409. I need to order some also my Gear reduction stripped mine out to.