ill be running mine against a carbon NN clod tomorrow... :)

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Looks like you guys had fun. Did you notice anything that it had any real difficulty with? I got mine all set-up thank you Cole for the infromative tip to drill out the holes on the TLT hardware. Now I just need to add a ton of weights.

The only thing you have to watch out for. Is when one of the front tires is in the air. Just barely bump the throttle and it will transfer the weight back down on the front.
Make sure the weight is very secure I had about an ounce fall off. It made it climb a lot werse a very noticable difference right away.

Cole whipped out his STICK when I was up in IOWA picking up my lathe on friday. It looks slick! Very cool tlt if you ask me.

If you wanted to get a bit more flex you could always drill a series of holes into the middle of the rail. It would allow a bit more twist.

i drilled holes in mine but it didnt help twist. cutting the aluminum so the sides were thinner did help tho :)

i am gonna get me a tlt rock buster kit and use a chassis like that. Easy to make and cheap. Homedepot sells that all day long and gives it to me hehehehe.

Talked me into it I was building a scaler but not now thanks:lol:

he cole could you post a pic of the side view? mine gets hung up a bunch on stuff i wanted to see just how the bottom of yours looks...

The single body post side is the back. The pics suck it's too dark outside.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...4/JEEPS130.jpg
mine has a lil more clearance:lol:

That doesn't matter when your drive shafts are so low.;-)

lol yeah i agree im gona tilt the axles up:lol:

hrmm i seeeeeee. alright cool thanks! my tranny is currently mounted on its side vertically. ill probably lay it down to get more center clearance. cole, are your axles tilted up ?

Yes therear is tilted up. Front is normal.

interesting. i have a few ideas that might try to get it out of the way completely

just how much extra weight have you guys added?

whats the best to use? lead stick-on or BB's?

what kinda foams are you guys running in them if any?

the reason i'm asking...i'm building one now and its all done BUT it feels light almost to light... i'm thinking i might run lots of weight up front and no foams.?.?


thanks
_Jason_

I'm useing no foams. 2.5oz of bb's in each front wheel. 1.5oz stick on to the front axle.

yesterday my twig survived a 50 something foot tumble with 5-6 impacts on the way down and landed in a tree above a river. after 20 minutes of indiana jones meets cliff hanger. i survived to fetch the crawler back to find it had only slightly bent the frame. it landed on a branch that was no more than 1/4 inch thick... long live the torsion sticks 2.2s

Sounds brutal.
The 27th I'm going to try my hands at a comp with this thing.

well good luck im telling ya now cause i know itll do well:lol:

Yep he only drove it for about 10min before the comp. Then he goes and takes 7th out of 14 in the class. I was blown away. He has some nitro monster truck maybe he will leave that in the closet and get a crawler.

I didn't have enough steering in the heat which made me roll. I was trying not to back up and went over the edge. So today when I got home, the steering got modded. I did the mods etype R has on his trucks. BTW he made the turn without a problem.

Here is the steering pic went from 25* to 37*. That's the only thing that has changed. I do want to change the rear lock out though.

Yeah, it was just a kid that came up to us at the campsite wanting to know more. Really had alot of interest in the hobby, his parents where awesome about it to, never met such nice people.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...r/192abaee.jpg

Don't go rear steer Cole, don't want you dominating my class, lol.

Pretty kickass of you Cole... of course I knew before that you were pretty tolerant of kids (crawlerman) and were a generally nice guy...

Thanks for the kind words guys.:oops: :lol:

That's the turn I didn't make right there. The left onto the bridge. I fell off the far side.

Looks like a pretty cool course.

Shaven headed mexi-lovers never make tight left turns, ya heard?

love the chassis idea & design Cole82,
thx posting here!! mine is almost ready to climb! xD

Did u name it???

I think I read the word "stupid" a lot....:flipoff:


Its a cool idea...but I prefer the shocks and more of a chassis type truck.

It doesn't need a name.
It dominates the competitions trucks. The standings speak for them selfs.

Putting one together myself. I did a "proof-of-concept" with a fuse from a Slow Stick (airplane) and it did fantastically well. Didn't flex worth beans, but my new stick material will do much better. Loved the 60%+ grade climbing ability...

that thing is sweet

On my TS, I set my wheelbase using holes drilled in two wooden rulers (got the idea from someone here on the board). I then put the stick in place and drilled the holes with everything in place. I used tape wrapped around the drillbit so I wouldn't overdrill into the axel case.

Hope that helps you. The way I did it allows you to not have to deal with angles and such, you get to use the ole eyeball and the TLAR method (that looks about right). Both my axels line up and I don't have to use hardly any trim on the Tx.

Mine is also done the same way, with one difference. I made new servo plates that span the whole axel between the C's... This allowed me to not use the stock screw holes on the axles like you are using. One thing I believe Cole did with the link mounts he has attached to the axles was to open up the holes so he can straighten out the axles.

Here are some pics of my rig:

http://www.woodardway.com/hobby/ts01.jpg

http://www.woodardway.com/hobby/ts02.jpg

Trickster got it right on. I enlarged the holes on the tamiya parts to make it line up then the rest was taken care of by the yurn buckles.

Yep drill the blue out to 3/16"

And Cole, thanks for the original idea. I believe you weren't the first, but I liked your setup over most and it inspired me to creat my rig. When I had the Moabs on it, I was pretty much unstopable. :D

I did the first C channel angled stick.
Here was the first and was the one that inspired me.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/tamiya-tlt-crawlers/37139-tlt-torsion-stick.html