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Arrived today. Looked it over, took it to the porch pile and ran a pack (1600mAh) thru it completely stock. Got about 45 minutes! It was fun but kinda 'jumpy/bouncy'. Runs smooth and quiet though. This evening did the 'shock mod' and took it out again. BIG difference! No more jumpy/bouncy. There's some serious potential here. Gonna put my Futaba in it and do some tweaking. The only 1/10 crawlers I've run before are a coupla LCCs.

Pics?

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Welcome to the club !

Lots of great people on the Ascender channel, and a lot of knowledge.

Post a pic of your rig here: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/vater...talking-9.html

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Hey Terry, glad to see your K10 finally came in!! I checked out your Micro Flintstone weights, now it's time for you to start adding some of that creativity to your yellow beast!"thumbsup"
Ernie

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X2 and yes it's great out of the box, but has lots of potential to really shine. "thumbsup"

Uh oh....lol....you know Ernie, our expectations just got higher. :lmao:8)"thumbsup" Looking for your Micro Flinstone weights...sounds familiar...

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Got the Futaba 4PL installed and functioning. Took re-reading the manual 'cause it has been so long that I fergot how to do it! After a test run on the porch pile, took the truck out to my favorite local spot, a big rubble pile. Might not look like much but this pile has some challenging stuff in it.

Everything is STEEP. The asphalt is grippy, the concrete can be and the gravel is NOT at all! Had a good time trying to remember some of the old lines I used to run with the LCC. Was a bit surprised at the difficulty of some of them. Had a great time and will head back out there after some adjustment on the braking of the factory ESC.

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This bigazz bumper has got to go!

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Agreed, I'm going to cut up the stock bumper and reattach the ends. What's your plan?

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Been thinking about how to make a smaller , closer fitting one that'll fit on the factory mounting. Also some compact sliders.

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Out to the rubble pile today after installing a stronger (300+ oz/in) servo. Got tired of the sluggish steering. First time I tried to steer up and out from between two blocks of concrete, the plastic arm stripped out! Back home where I robbed a metal clamping arm from another truck. This little truck just continues to impress.

Now shopping for some bead locks/tires and stuff for a sway bar. New body came in today but all I got was a card in the POB 'cause our small town PO counter is not 'manned' or 'womanned' on Saturdays.

Coupla pics from today.

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From the bottom.

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Zoomed in.

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From the top.

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My stock servo arm stripped on my first run, went to a alum one and no problem since."thumbsup"

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Just got done 'bobbing' the bumper. Cut off those HUGE 'wings' and shortened the mounting posts by ~9mm. Should be able to put a tire on something now.

Pics coming.

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Bumper bob

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Bumper bob 2.

Photobucket can be a real hemorrhoid! Especially on my sloooow rural connection.
Finally got the pic to post!

Sharp eyed folks will note the front body mount holes were off center about an eighth of an inch and that the 'camouflage' for it is a coupla strips of 3M Super Tape each side.

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Yep. Works as advertised! There are far fewer incidents of dragging the bumper now. Even when it hits something, it doesn't hang up.

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Spent about 3 hours last night messin' with the 'porch pile'. Did not get a whole lot done! Spent most of the time shuffling rocks back and forth, not being satisfied with the arrangements made. Did like one thing though. Added a forth row of vertical cinder blocks to the central elevated section. Hope to be able to have more than just one 'drive over' obstacle up there.


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Had another good afternoon crawl at The Rubble Pile. There was one scary moment though when I tried to 'power up' and onto a concrete block near the top of the pile. "Missed it by ... that much", as Agent 86 would say. The result was a tumble all the way to ground level on the east side. The STEEP side, of course! Where they have removed the most material. At least it was dirt, sand and gravel vs chunks of concrete. Climbed down, flipped it over and everything checked out. No apparent damage to the truck so took it back to the top. Standard stuff. Almost every time my LCC tumbled down the west side, with all the concrete, it broke a CVD!

Realized I had not posted a pic of this side. Here it is. That is the Mississippi River levee in the background. Can hear the engines and see the search lights from the tow boats at night, pushing barges up and down The River, from here.

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Hey Terry, just a heads up, the brake weights that I use with the Codyboy Steering will not work the stock wheels. They don't have enough off-set. Do you have different wheels, and if so what kind, so I know how to turn the weights. "thumbsup"
Ernie,

You can see what I'm talking about here.

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Ernie, Payment and PMs sent.

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Thanks Terry, axle is all done and will go in the mail in the morning."thumbsup"

Repurposing some wheel weight.

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A little bit of steering. I test fitted everything with a spool in and all was smooth as butter.

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Fitment in some external bead lock wheels."thumbsup"

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And they look pretty good from the business side.

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Thanks again, and enjoy!"thumbsup"
Ernie

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Looks grrreat Ernie! Is that all the steering you could get out of it? ;-) Anxious to mount 'em up.

Stretched an rc4wd Irok 1.9 onto an old 2.2 Vanq SLW. Went on easy enough w/o foams. Four in a row might make me cuss.

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Thanks Terry, I threw in a couple 5X11mm bearings and two 12mm hexes so I could just send it to you assembled, I should just start pricing them with those included. You will probably need to put a little bend in the tie rod link so it clears the pumpkin at full lock to lock.
I thought about trying some rubber unis to get more steering but they might be not work!!!:lmao::shock:"thumbsup"
Ernie

On the IRoks I put a little dawn dish soap and water on the bead. I use a Q-tip, it helps the bead slide into the ring.

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Oooooooohhhhh. I love the axles. Whats the price on something like that?