Let's introduce you to Pitbull

[Rikpal]

Hi all. I'm new here.
This is my scale crawler wrangler



All the lights are working. Rocks lights are planned even.


Here's a close up of the bumper with working winch.


Snow chains


A couple of action pics (note the alum rollcage)




Currently I'm working on the plow


Some spec:
Home made chassis
TLT axles with 2 lockers
Juggy tranny with twin motors (silver cans)
Final ratio is something between 30:1 and 71:1 (currently 50:1 more or less)
Landmax wheels and tires with homemade hex adapters
Hitec 645 MG steering servo
Working lights
Working winch
4 link coil suspension front and rear.
The rear suspension has separate dampers and coil to increase artic.
Home made bumper and rollcage.
Tonka body
The driver is a Jackie Chan action figure

A couple of movies of Pitbull crawling to show how it perform

Vid 1Around 14 MB

Vid 2 Around 13 MB

What do ya think?

[pinkfloydman]

Hi i have been watching your build up on another site, and i jus thave to say, SWEET!!! very very very very scale, its really cool

[tltcrawlerxtrem]

looks very very good ill have to view the vid later

[Jneves]

GREAT WORK!

Any body off shots?

[Team-FSU]

WOW! in some of those pics it looks like an actual pic of a 1:1 jeep! very well done!

[broncotxt]

that thing is great one of the best scale crawlers ive seen

[HO502cid]

Very amazing looking truck.

Your surroundings have me quite jealous, those rocks are beautiful!

[BENDER]

That's sweet, I love the first pic. Your bumper and roll cage really complete the look.

[Rikpal]

Thanks guys.

Here are some pics of the hidden parts.

Overall body off


Jugg tranny mounts I hacked the low stock mounts due to clearance.


Rear suspension


Rear links geometry

[Rikpal]

Note the spring taking some air to increase droop.


Front suspension geometry


Steering setup. I don't want an axle mounted servo due to scale look.
Note the winch behind the steering servo.


Another shot of the winch. The drum is supported at both end and roll on BB.

[Bsmooth]

Rik, I too have been following the thread on the other page. I must say it looks great!
Send Jackie my condolences on his "surgery"

[Bigbadwhitey]

I've been working for 3 days on Mine.Jero tires,Coil sping 4 link suspention,New Bright Jeep TJ body Vert Scale.Thanks For all the Pics RIK. I'll post some Pics Later today.

[Rikpal]

The new frame is completed. Nothing to show cause it's a clone of the old one without the unused holes.

The snowplow is mounted. I built a frontplate that attach on the frame.
The plow is bolted to the plate. The alloy profile under Pitbull are the old frame


I'll prolly remove the stock attaching plate (the orange one in low position in front of the axle),
but I wanna be sure before hack anything. Maybe this plow will be used on my F-350 even.


The raising and lowering action is done by the winch.
Here's a plow movement small vid. Note that using the winch I can stop the movement at any height.



At this point I have postponed the idea of rocks lights. I wanna check if I need them driving in the darkness. Stopping lights idea has been delete.

So Pitbull has to considered:
COMPLETED!!!!!
I can switch on different project.

[Plays_with_Toys]

The truck looks great. Do you have any problems with those plastic posts flexing (the ones that the top links center down to at the axle)? Great job as usual

[Rikpal]

Thanks
If they flex I didn't notice it and I crawl hard with this puppie.
Anyway I'll check it during some ramp test.

[badhoopty]

i cant believe the coolness of all u guys rigs...

sweet.

[roadkill424]

that is very nice

[CrawlinForLife]

Thats a clean looking rig. I like all the little extra details.

[Rikpal]

Thanks.
I admit I'm very proud of how it came out.

[gobble_doc]

can i ask what you used as reflectors for the tail light spot lights and head lights