'Droopy' the basic build

[Dirty Jeepster]

Hey all,

I recently returned to the scale crawler and 2.2 world after a few years of working on 1:1 rigs and finishing my final semester majoring in illustration (Woo!). This build was quite basic, buy el cheapo creeper to post against a friends RTR ax10. This is what I came up with.









'Droopy' is pretty straight forward with extended bic pen inner springs within the front shocks. The rear shocks utilize a old pair of unknown black team associated springs of proper length to match the shock bodies. For a motor I'm using a venom 60t mod. fireball with the supplied 45t spur and 15t pinion. The shocks are filled with 80wt oil and the foams are star cut with internal lead wheel weights. For an ESC I opted for an old integy unit with a cooling fan. To keep everything lubricated I pumped the sealed trans full of lucas 'red n tacky' as well as the diffs. The servo is a hitec 635HB which will soon be swapped for a 985MG for additional torque. The battery is in the stock location but as I type I am soldering new balanced axle packs. Every CV shaft has been shrink wrapped, including the drive shafts just in case a retaining pin moves. I will also be machining lockouts for the rear axle along with straight shafts on the cheap!

After building my cheap clod stick and side torsion WK I took a break from 2.2 crawlers for my 1:1 builds.





Thankfully this rig brought back the drive. Stay tuned for more updates and thanks for looking!

RM

[rmdesignworks]

Creeper looks good but I am curious,,why 80wt oil?

[Dirty Jeepster]

Thanks for the compliment. As for the oil back when my WK had a linked chassis I experimented with heavy oil. I found that with proper springs and heavy oil the chassis wouldn't unload rapidly when climbing/descending and side hilling. This was pretty clear and yet the oil still allows the shocks to properly extend and collapse. I did though drill one of the valve holes a touch larger to somewhat aid with the heavier oil on colder days.

RM

[rmdesignworks]

how bout some creeper porn,,ie: top off pics...lol

[Dirty Jeepster]

Absolutely! I'll get those first thing in the morning when my cameras batteries actually have somewhat of a charge. I will also add that by lightly misting my ridgelines with simple green and allowing them to 'tack' up, then wipe them down with a rag drastically helped them in the traction dept. I realize this is a known trick (as well as kart racing and etc IE goat pizz) it seemed to work especially well on these supplied tires.

RM

[Dirty Jeepster]

As promised here are some 'topless' shots. If there is anything else you guys may want to see let me know.









RM

[rmdesignworks]

have you ran it yet? i can see by the rear links that youll want to relocate the rear upper links to combat Torque Twist.

[Dirty Jeepster]

They definitely need to be moved up to combat twist, but due to the heavy oil and wheel weights torque twist seems to be minimal. I only have about four packs through it so plenty of time tweaking the suspension and weights etc will come.

RM