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11-23-2015, 12:20 PM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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|  Tom G's Twin Hammers
Picked up a Twin Hammers kit. So after a couple of bad experiences driving 3 hrs to the local U-4 Track. Only to run the Yeti for 30 min. then breaking stock Yeti parts  . I decided this truck was not going to leave the shop till it was at least semi bullet proof. Replaced a bunch of plastic suspension parts with Hot Racing Aluminum stuff Front HR Castor block’s, knuckles, Front Hinge Pin plate, Steering Rack and better lower A’s are on BO) and a GCM front plate and shock towers with SX-10 Icon Shocks Attachment 330735 Attachment 330736 Attachment 330737 Rear HR Lower link mounts, Upper and Lower 4 links and Rear Diff. Axle Tubes and a GCM Diff. Truss/Link block & OttSix KLR tires ,not sure of what wheels yet may be some VP Methods Attachment 330738 Attachment 330739 Basic Motor & SC one of my Futaba rx’s and 4PK-R tx There will be further changes as the B.O. parts arrive MIP Rear drive shaft ,Rear Upper link blocks & Front and Rear Sway bars Attachment 330740  Last edited by Tom G; 08-29-2016 at 04:49 PM. |
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11-24-2015, 07:48 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: San Diego
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
Looks good. But thes are pretty damn tough stock. If you broke a stock lower link mount you'd have bigger issues. Hahahaha But, you're set now! Best money you can spend,get Irie's bellcrank steering for GCM plate. Best mod period Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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11-26-2015, 01:10 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers Quote:
All ready ordered a week ago just wait on the USPS to deliver | |
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11-27-2015, 03:33 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: OIB
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
Looks great
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11-27-2015, 10:43 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Australia
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers Quote:
How do I get my hands on this Irie bellcrank? Live in Austrailia and never bought from a vendor so a detailed expalantion of where to go and what to do would be appreciated. Cheers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk | |
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11-28-2015, 09:17 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: San Diego
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
He's on here. Just look up Irie and send him a private message. He made it real easy and I just pay paled him. ;) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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12-01-2015, 10:45 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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12-01-2015, 01:09 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: San Diego
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
Dude. Get on that list. It's really prime. Worth the wait. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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12-01-2015, 01:51 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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12-01-2015, 10:25 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: San Diego
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
Poop. :( Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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12-06-2015, 10:06 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
It finally quit raining long enough to get this truck out of the living room. The stock steering servo smoked after 15 min ( I spent longer then that making sure the end point's were correct ) So made a few changes swapped the Servo to a Savox SC-1258 TG I had in the hoard. Attachment 331782 Swapped the ESC to a MambaMax PRO & motor to a Tekin 10.5 T Brush-less all so a MIP rear drive shaft.. Just cause I wanted 2 Attachment 331783 Junked the stock wheels and tire's to some 1.9 Aluminum bead-lock's to match the Yeti and Voodoo 1.9 KLR's Attachment 331784 Going to rethink the battery placement the front end is very nose heavy off jumps Last edited by Tom G; 08-29-2016 at 04:49 PM. |
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12-07-2015, 02:19 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
I had the same experience with the battery up front.... My solution was to relocate all the electronics to the front, place a dummy servo with no guts in it behind the functioning one, and install the battery were the old electronics lived. Adding the dummy servo makes that area flat and allows the battery to site there all happy like  It also places the second heaviest component (battery) opposite the Motor (heaviest) to somewhat balance the chassis out.Hope to see you this weekend Tom.  HotWheels000But kind of a pain in the ass to take the body off to change out the battery between heats plus the threads in plastic don't last all that long to begin with  [/QUOTE]After some thought I broke down the spare tire pulled out the foam and warped some 3/16 lead wire around the inside of the wheel and remounted the tire. (I want to keep the spear tire on the truck for appearance's) With battery mounted in the front this moved the balance of 3' 2oz on the front axle to 3' 5oz on the rear axle shifting the CG to just slightly to the rear of the wheelbase C/L Attachment 331794 Well see how it fly's its easy enough to add remove a little lead Last edited by Tom G; 08-29-2016 at 04:49 PM. |
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12-08-2015, 02:24 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
Ran down to the local indoor short course carpet track to do some testing and Ya the lead idea in the rear tire did work out   UNLESS YOU WANT TO ENTER A WHEELIE CONTEST Plus the CG was to high so the truck wanted to roll to easily, so I ditched the lead & put the battery back in the stock location. Modified GCM axle truss & battery tray so the rear diff got full compression with out bottoming on the battery tray. Which was the was the original reason to move the battery to the front of the truck "DA" It still torques the right front up a little and wants to wheelie over backwards in high gear from a standing start , but that's on carpet that has WAY WAY MORE TRACTION then dirt Unfortunately the local dirt short course is a lake right now Hopefully will get a chance some packs on dirt before the U-4 Race this weekend |
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12-09-2015, 08:27 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Colorado Springs
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers
Great looking twin hammers! Yours is basically what mine is about to be lol. I currently have a lot of parts coming in the mail. Do you feel that your motor combo is a little over powered or no? Still trying to decide on which motor to go with.
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12-10-2015, 05:43 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Playing with toys with my son's
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| Re: Tom G's Twin Hammers Quote:
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12-16-2015, 11:15 AM
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12-16-2015, 11:19 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Western Wa. Mose Capital of the World
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