01-13-2020, 09:38 AM | #1 |
Gold Star Baby! Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Las Vegas
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| Topher revives a TRX4
Those of you that are connected with me on social media have likely already seen this, but I wanted to start a ‘rebuild’ thread as I’m planning on spending a lot of time with this truck this year. So back in the Pant Danza days I had purchased a trx4 Bronco. Before this truck I had only had one crawler, which was an scx10.2 that was nearly box stock save for some plastic proline wheels, hyrax tires, and a servo. While it was fun, I eventually sold it to a member here and picked up a TRX4 Bronco. Then, thanks to all of you here the bug to upgrade bit me and as you’ve all seen it’s been downhill ever since. While parts came and went, it was a good learning process and the truck ended up performing quite well. I ran this truck a lot until I started building more, and little by little parts were taken from this rig and used for others until this was a slider sitting on my work bench for months. Fast forward to last week, 7 months after the last time I drove it, I had some spare electronics around and got to reviving the rex. Took it out yesterday and had a lot of fun, I almost forgot how capable this truck is. Portals and all it will still climb, just as well as my trail king and even the 10.2 tiny tired Jeep. Short video below from sunday if you’d like to check it out. There won’t be many new mods to this truck as it does well in its current state, but it will be getting a new body, possibly a new set of tires, and a lot more wheel time. Parts that are still on it: HW 1080 and HH 21T trailmaster sport, JX servo Overdrive and underdrive gears eBay axles Ssd brass portal cover up front Samix brass chubs and knuckles GRC aluminum rear shock mounts HR brass diff cover in front Samix high clearance links 45/9 spur/pinion single speed Spooled diffs One pic of her when she was new new and a couple from yesterday below. |
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01-13-2020, 09:50 AM | #2 |
Go Buckeyes! Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Mid-Ohio
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| Re: Topher revives a TRX4
It's great to see the Rex again! I've missed seeing it here and on YT. Looking forward to seeing the new look! I know what you mean by adding more rigs to the stable. Some of the greats get left behind. And then one day they are rediscovered! That sounds a lot like my Sport. I haven't had a chance to drive since last May. Luckily it is still all in one piece. And it has been begging to get off the shelf! |
01-13-2020, 10:23 AM | #3 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Re: Topher revives a TRX4
Nice, maybe you'll get me off my butt to finally give the TRX4 the adjustments it deserves to perform as well as my other trucks.
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01-13-2020, 10:32 AM | #4 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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| Re: Topher revives a TRX4
Saw the new video on "the gram." This truck is one of my faves. I also think that it is your best climber. Sent from my LM-G710VM using Tapatalk |
01-13-2020, 12:36 PM | #5 | ||
Gold Star Baby! Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Las Vegas
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Thanks Max! I appreciate that. She sure does like to climb and looks good doing it. | ||
01-13-2020, 04:02 PM | #6 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Great Britain
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Wow what a truck and what a chilled tune. Love it
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01-13-2020, 05:35 PM | #7 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Boulder
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Excellent. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love seeing this truck at work. A gal at work sometimes drives her son's modded Comanche to work and I spend long moments in the garage staring at it when it's here. All of this makes me want to attempt the Comanche body again.
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01-13-2020, 09:13 PM | #8 | |
Gold Star Baby! Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Las Vegas
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Picking out songs to go with these videos is one of my favorite, and most challenging, parts of making and sharing these tiny truck videos. | |
01-14-2020, 09:43 AM | #9 |
Go Buckeyes! Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Mid-Ohio
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01-14-2020, 11:17 AM | #10 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Re: Topher revives a TRX4 I know right?! There were so many nice rigs last year. And they all hit at once after that drought we had when Hobbico was on its deathbed.
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01-14-2020, 03:50 PM | #11 | |
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01-14-2020, 05:52 PM | #12 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Medina
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| Re: Topher revives a TRX4
There are still 3 rigs I wanna pull the trigger on, but I’m trying to be disciplined. So much good stuff came down the pipeline this past year, it was hard to make a decision! B-Mow - I agree! I think 2020 is gonna be a great year too. Great time to be in the hobby! BTW - the three rigs are: VS4-10 SSD Trail King (planning on doing a super scale rig with the RC4WD Blazer body I scored. It’ll probably crawl like pooh with all the excess weight, but it’ll look awesome doing it! GS02 BOM - something about the oddball nature of this rig appeals to me for some reason! Here’s to an awesome 2020 - looking forward to checking out everyone’s new projects and builds! Glad to see the trusty TRX back on the rocks Topher! |
01-14-2020, 09:43 PM | #13 | |
Gold Star Baby! Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Las Vegas
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Last year was pretty awesome! I’m really happy with all the rigs that I picked up and still have from last year. Wish there was more time on the weekends. Quote:
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01-15-2020, 12:44 PM | #14 |
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01-15-2020, 05:31 PM | #15 |
Newbie Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Brandon
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How do you like the JX servo?
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01-15-2020, 09:48 PM | #16 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Looking good! I just bought a used TRX4 slider for an upcoming build. I’ll be following along this build for sure.👍🏼 |
01-16-2020, 09:19 AM | #17 |
Gold Star Baby! Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Las Vegas
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| Re: Topher revives a TRX4 Lol no joke! Power and speed wise it’s not bad, the one thing I’m not sure about is the strength of the gears and how quickly they’ll get sloppy. I won’t be driving this one all that often though so I’m hoping it gets me by for a while until the HHV3 comes out. This one is the JX BLS6534HV. It’s 467 oz/in at 0.11 seconds @7.4v Thanks Dez and congrats on the new rig! Is it your first trx4? Last edited by Topher Builds; 01-16-2020 at 09:23 AM. |
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