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03-28-2005, 07:33 PM
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|  Meet Big Blue.....my new TXT crawler
Here are some images of my new TXT based crawler. Thansk to Bender, his rig was the inspiration to build my own. Chassis is/was a TXT but has been shortened and cut for clearance and the Tranny has been raised in chassis GD600 Savage shocks Hitec 645MGs Narrowed Proline Outback rims with Moabs or narrowed stock wheels with cut tread stock tires Bronco body....at least at the start I do have a question. It seems that once one of the tires starts to grip and climb the chassis just keeps trying to twist itself into a pretzel. I went to 80+ wt shock oil, any other suggestions? Do I need to change link locations or shock angle? Hope you like it           Doug Last edited by DougH; 03-28-2005 at 09:16 PM. Reason: resizing photos |
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03-28-2005, 07:50 PM
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| MODERATOR™   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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I've never seen pictures that big before in my life!!! Can you resize them? |
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03-28-2005, 07:59 PM
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| 2006 2.2 National Champ  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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Looks sick DougH, I like the shock towers. Nice use of stock parts on battery tray.  As stated could you re-size the pics down a bit? |
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03-28-2005, 08:05 PM
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Sorrty about the big pictures guys. Not sure how to make them smaller but I'll check.
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03-28-2005, 08:58 PM
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03-28-2005, 09:21 PM
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OK, I got them resized. Much better now.
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03-28-2005, 09:23 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Paradise City Where The Girls Are Pretty
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Lots Of Nice Little Red X's. Those Should Take All Crawlers Alive. NATE |
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03-28-2005, 09:25 PM
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So how do you like it so far? I like the way the body turned out. | |
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03-28-2005, 09:31 PM
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I've only run a few packs in front of the house but feel like I have WAY too much twist. As soon as I start to climb an obstacle one tire grips, the other goes in the air with torque twist and it wants to go over on its back like a turtle. Changed shock oil to 100wt and it seemed to help a bit. Will try a minor relocation of links and see what happens. I actually shortend the rear of the body a bit more as I still had some rub issues at extreme flex. Sure love how it looks though. Doug |
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03-28-2005, 09:37 PM
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| 2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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Try a stiffer spring in the right rear, as you look at it from the back. I use Trinity's progressive spring set, they work great for me. Link location can play a big part in it too.
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03-28-2005, 09:43 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: San Jose
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I've never benn a savage shock fan but I like it. I love the paint on the bronco body. Looks good. I also like the reuse of the chassis cut offs.
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03-28-2005, 09:46 PM
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| 2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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After looking at pics again, your link locations look pretty good. You could move them futher down, towards the bottom of the chassis. Also make the upper chassis link mount a little closer to the lower link mounting point. Try to get the links as flat as possible. Another thing that would help is mounting the lower shock mounts further out on the axles. It does look badass, with a few tweaks it'll work just as good. |
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03-28-2005, 10:10 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Gay NorthWest
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i think it looks awesome good job.... doesnt it seem like ever since everyone saw how well bender's rig was they all started to look a little bit similar  |
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03-28-2005, 10:33 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Tampa, Fl
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That ting is awsome. Not a fan of baby blue, but it fits that body perfectly.
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03-28-2005, 11:26 PM
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I loved the look of Benders rig so I copied his. Guess I owe him copyright fees  Color is actually much darker than the pictures, its Pactra Flourescent Blue. This is my favorite color, I usually paint with this ,white and flourescent orange. I like to be able to see my race cars. |
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03-29-2005, 12:16 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Tampa, Fl
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Wannabe Bender |
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05-01-2005, 08:47 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vegas
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I would think that moving the upper shock mounts to the outside might counteract the pretzeling.
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05-01-2005, 09:54 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Saint Louis MO
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First off great looking rig. Love the shock mounts. I see two things that could help to reduce your torque twist. 1) Bolt your lower shock to the outside of that mounting tab. Mine are one the outside of the lower link mount. 2) This one may require a bit more work, try to stand the shocks up more front to back. The inward tilt seems to be OK, as seen from the front.
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