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Oh, and talking about RULR's I reversed the battery mounts on my K10, but see a good bit of flex, so intend making some up sometime. I doubt if I am going to put a panhard setup on the rear as it's drives so well now with the Gmade shocks that it would be a waste of time. I might try it on the Land Rover instead.

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Hmmm...here I thought it was a general invite. :twisted:

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I saw the same thing when I did that... went with more solid material...

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So I just bought a used Ascender, don't even have it yet, waiting for it arrive, anyhow I'm only on page eight of this thread and I can't believe how much good info is here and how well Natedog includes links and tries to present all info available, great job! Looking forward to gettin mine. I really think the Ascender section needs a Tips and Tricks thread like other models though."thumbsup"

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Do yourself a favor... If you see something you like, just bookmark it now instead of rifling through the whole thread for the umpteenth time like I have been doing for months... LOL

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It's on it's way, be here tomorrow! Anyhow I just gotta thank Natedog again for all this useful info that applies to other rigs as well, I dropped the ride height on my TRX4 Bronco tonight by backing off all the preload on the shocks and lowering the body posts one hole all around, Wow! Those two things made a world of difference, it climbs and sidehills so much better now, I'm on page 33 of this thread now and probably have 10 pages bookmarked lol"thumbsup"

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Thank you, it was a great time and a great cause! We bought plenty of raffle tickets, t-shirt, etc. :)



Yes we did, thanks! :)



Yes, more solid is good and ideally they need to be higher than the battery reversal. :)



But of course! :)



Awesome, been reading your posts, can't wait to see what you do to personalize it! Thank you, trying to help everyone. Agreed, Tips and Tricks thread would be great! :)



Great idea! :)



Awesome, glad to help out with your setup, you're welcome! :)


Yeti.Stealth (Dean) and son Cooper visited the other day and we had a great day of chatting, crawling, and burritos! :)"thumbsup"



Day started out cool and a bit chilly, we couldn't decide on shorts or long pants, but ended up sunny and warm about 80F, very nice. Group picture!



http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66500.jpg




We crawled a couple cool arch/tunnels.



http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66501.jpg




Snack time and truck stack time.



http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66502.jpg




As we were rallying around the beaches and trails a Bald Eagle flew right over us, so amazed that I barely got a kinda blurry picture! Saw lots of birds, ground squirrels too.



http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66503.jpg




I've been using the new Vaterra RULRs on my K10 (tested on K5 too) and Rich has announced that they will be available separately within a week from now, awesome! Post # 64
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/vater...ml#post5882808




After crawling and discussing with Dean, I've planned a K10 rebuild and have a bunch of parts laid out for some nice modifications! Probably going to try out the windshield wiper metal insert swaybar setup that one of their group created.

Post # 425

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/vater...enders-22.html

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That day was bloody awesome Nate! But that burrito had me beat lol

Was totally cool to see the bald eagle, thanks again for taking the time to be our host and guide for the day, we have seen and done some great and wonderful things on our holiday, spending the day crawling with you and having the privilege of driving your tuned and modded ascenders, is right up there as one of the best, it has made for some wonderful memories!

I’m pretty confidant I can say we are mates now!

Thanks mate!

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Yes, it was! She rolled you the heavy duty burrito, coulda made two meals of it. :ror:"thumbsup"

Yes, bonus eagle, you're very welcome, I had a wonderful and memorable day too!

Agreed we're mates/friends now!

You're welcome, mate! :)"thumbsup"




Snapped a picture of the new RULRs that come installed on the new 1972 Chevy Suburban Ascender-S 4WD RTR (VTR03094)
https://www.horizonhobby.com/1-10-19...ator1_10022018

Installed on left rear of my K10 with the rear panhard setup, and the right hand side to show the entire part, thanks Rich! :)

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66507.jpg

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I like the look of them. Nice and simple. Wonder if an aluminium upgrade would be available?

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THanks, they're plastic but very high quality fiber reinforced and I've not broken one yet. They're pretty rigid for plastic parts, but just enough give, agreed an aluminum upgrade would be sweet though. :)

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Great looking spots for crawling and trailing! thanks for putting up the pics

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So Nate, you’re thinking of going back to sway bar? Care to elaborate your thoughts and ideas? I’m taking Nemo out this weekend after some more shock tuning, new aluminum upper link mount on rear end to help unwanted flex but still not 100% sold on the idea of eliminating torque twist without a sway bar. But I’m going to give it good shot this Sunday. Only going to be in the mid 30’s for temps but need to get out. Fill me in on your ideas man.

Ben

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I'm way behind still on page 34, I was getting ready to put parts list together for a swaybar lol, I noticed the torque twist tonight while trying to climb some steep hills.

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I’d still get the sway bar. It’s on my original blazer and it just works. Love it.

Ben

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Thanks and you're welcome! "thumbsup"



Still testing with different link setups, outboard shocks and all, TT is better. The DBL-DZS-RC link mount plates with shorter upper links and in second hole from top and front is very good on TT elimination and still get lots of rear flex. Looking into swaybar setup like Yet.stealth posted in his thread using automotive windshield wiper metal insert strip instead of Axial or my home made music wire swaybar too. "thumbsup"



Agreed, Va'Blazer with swaybar just works. :)





New rear RULRs (plastic is very nice fiber reinforced stuff!) and through-hole transmission output shaft that come on the new 1972 Chevy Suburban RTR S, time to upgrade my transmission. :)

https://www.horizonhobby.com/1-10-19...rtr-p-vtr03094


http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66520.jpg




Old Losi 2WD buggy racing days t-shirt I dug out of my drawer. :)


http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/membe...4446-66521.jpg

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Are those available separately yet?

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It should be soon, part# VTR234032 :)
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/vater...-coming-4.html

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What's the advantage of those new rear upper link mounts?

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Ok finally got through the whole thread, lot's of good reading here! My Bronco was built using the k5 Blazer kit and I went through the manual and checked that all the links are correct and all was good except for the one steering link that should've been 30mm instead of 38mm, fixing that corrected my steering. I don't have anything close to the rocks that you climb, mostly trails with rocks and steep loose climbs so my question to you Ascender Guru is this, do think the Wraith sway bar mounted like your K5 is my best bet? It climbs over obstacles great but the TT just kills steep climbs.