Yeti.Stealths Ascenders

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Trail run today with a friend and his children, they used their bombers, I'm impressed with how capable those bombers are! And a lot of fun.

It was a good hour and a half hike, kids had fun. We just walked along a full size off-road track, very steep and difficult in places.

K10 took a huge tumble at the end of the day, smashed the grill and pulled a front shock plastic cap off. Screwed it back on and all ok, no bent links or any other damage.

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Swaybar, weighted axles and wheels, lowered and limited shocks, stretched wheelbase and big sticky Jconcepts scorpios all doing there thing to keep the rig planted on this steep little climb.

The Bronco climbed this too on first try, but then I was never able to repeat it.

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Savox servo is running great, no problems at all. It's powered by a castle creations 10amp BEC set to 6.4volts and plugged into a Holmes hobbies Rx bypass harness. Enough speed and power for me and stock plastic hubs, knuckles etc





Cheaped out on my sons rig! Trying a hobby king 20kg 7.4 volt servo. Running it straight of rx power for now, plan on installing ccbec at 7.4 volts for this, even at the lower voltage it is a definite upgrade over RTR servo. Guess I better have a go at waterproofing it too, my boy aims for every puddle or mud hole haha!

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Your K-10 is my favorite-looking Ascender on this site. The string of crawling shots on that rock (post#102) are perfect, truck looks extremely tough, battered, and aggressive.

I someday hope to get my grubby mitts on a K-10 and get rid of the yellow! Flat black is king...

Wheel/tire choice combined with the skull logo adds a lot.

Much props!

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Thanks Durok! Glad you like it.

My son and nephew torture tested them a bit more today, HK servo holding up, rear axle on K10 hanging in there and super glued the grill back together.

[Natedog]

Originally Posted by Yeti.stealth

Swaybar, weighted axles and wheels, lowered and limited shocks, stretched wheelbase and big sticky Jconcepts scorpios all doing there thing to keep the rig planted on this steep little climb.

Looks great doing it's thing! How much are your shocks currently limited? WB2 with WB4 rear links resulting in WB3 is nice!

Got a little weight wrapped in black tape mounted to front crossmember?

Originally Posted by durok

Your K-10 is my favorite-looking Ascender on this site. The string of crawling shots on that rock (post#102) are perfect, truck looks extremely tough, battered, and aggressive.

I someday hope to get my grubby mitts on a K-10 and get rid of the yellow! Flat black is king...

One of my favorite K10s too and nice string of climbing shots!

Do it, outside paint or buy a clear body and paint away!

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Natedog, the shocks have 9mm internal spacers and deleted the external rubber bump stop. You spotted my front ballast! Just a few fishing sinkers wrapped up in black tape. After I took the winch bar and servo winch off the front it wouldn't climb some of the real steep lines at my local test track anymore, so I had to add a bit of weight up front. Did same to Bronco too.

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I need a little help guys, finally had the stock plastic servo horn let go! Recently cranked the servo voltage up and fitted CI deuces wild foams, all to much for the plastic part and stripped it!
I want to replace it with an alloy servo arm, and like the look of the Losi arm part number LOSA99032.
Anyone out there got one of the Losi alloy arms? What are the hole centres to outer hole and is it longer than the stock plastic arm that measures 20mm.
I'm hoping it is longer so I can gain a little extra steering angle.

[Natedog]

I'm using Axial clamping on my K10, Dynamite non-clamping on my K5 Blazer, both work well. I've never stripped a non-clamping aluminum horn with 1.9s or 2.2, also have a Hudy high clearance arm in reserve just in case. I can measure these later if you want. Robitronics are the longest aluminum horns I've seen, but are often too long imo.

Looking at the Losi arm you gave the part number for, I didn't find a length spec, but prolly close to stock. The Dynamite arm has several holes, one is slightly shorter and the outermost is slightly longer than stock plastic arm iirc which is just right for me.

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Thanks Nate, someone measured that Losi arm for me but it is only 14mm to the outer hole. I was able to get a couple of alloy clamping style arm that are 24 mm hole centres. I can easily get full steering throw now without having to max out the end points on both rigs.

Pic of son and nephew getting a bit rough! I think they were acting out some monster jam type thing!!! Had to break it up before they busted something.... Damn kids!

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Ok, back to posting single pics at a time, phone won't let me upload anymore and just figured out how to get pics onto iPad, can't figure out how to post multiple pics from iPad....

Nephew pleased with concouring this little climb, boys had a lotta fun bashing in an old gravel quarry one afternoon between school and home.

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Stretched wheelbase by 5mm. Fitted 2.5mm purple spacers to each end of upper and lower links. Still enough drive shaft engagement I believe, shocks laying over a little more now. This should help it climb a bit steeper.

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308mm wheelbase now, I think...

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Tried these deuces wild foams ages ago when I first got the Jconcepts Scorpio tyres, only did a few short runs on them and felt they were just too damn hard, at that time I was into the soft squishy tyre thing, but was starting to get sick of seeing my ascender with all of its big steering angle goodness just ploughing straight ahead on tight downhill or side hill turns and trying to peel the tyres off the beadlocks!

I could tell right away these foams had improved my rig all around, still able to make all the tough climbs at my local crawl spot but now with what seems like aggressive steering power! They don't seem anywhere as hard as they were when new and the tyres are well broken in too. Also loving the waterproof aspect, It seemed to take forever for the lil nova foams to dry out, in the end I would try and avoid water....

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Comp day!

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