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09-10-2007, 09:51 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: My House
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|  My Wheely King vid.... ~Updated with second video~  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BV2YnRnNw Not the best video, but it's what I've got. After all, I live in the "High Plains", not the "High Lots of Fun Stuff to Crawl Area".  It's not easy to find rock formations around here. Oh well, it's still fun, i'm sure if I keep looking I'll find better spots.*New Video* Not long after I shot the first vid, I made a bunch of changes. I moved the battery to the front, moved the shocks in on the axles for more leverage, mounted the servo on the axle, and a few other things. Finally, Sunday I got a chance to shoot it in action. It drives like a whole new truck and just cruises up stuff that I either couldn't get over before or had to work hard to clear. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3SHkoyGGQ Last edited by S1NN3R; 10-08-2007 at 08:32 PM. Reason: Update |
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09-10-2007, 10:05 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Great looking truck and nice video, but thank goodness for the mute button! (sorry, just not my taste  )
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09-10-2007, 10:07 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Kennewick
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DAMN! i'd hate to see one of your "good" vids! Great job... simple and visually effective! WaWa  |
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09-10-2007, 10:20 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: monongahela
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Good video,like the droop on the wk |
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09-10-2007, 04:25 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Canada
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Cool vid... |
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09-10-2007, 04:56 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: FRANCE
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I love Lands...
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09-10-2007, 04:58 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: jonesboro
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nice! |
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09-10-2007, 05:07 PM
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| Let me 3D Print that...   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Concord
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Nice rig and nice vid!
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09-11-2007, 06:13 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: My House
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09-12-2007, 07:15 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Phoenix
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 Excellent video. I enjoyed it. Your truck seems to perform very well too. | |
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09-12-2007, 11:30 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: virginia
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|  nice
wow that is a great wk.
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09-17-2007, 03:10 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: tx
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Looks awsome I wish my videos came out that good. |
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09-23-2007, 08:49 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: My House
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Well, I changed a bunch of stuff since that video was made. I moved the lower shock mount to the inside of the lower links so the socks are standing straight up when you look at it from the front, just like the stock angle basically. That gave the axle more leverage against the springs and rediced a LOT of the float problem I had. Then I mounted the gigantic battery to some braces right over the front third link. It will now cruise right up stuff that I had to work hard at before. Finally I got the servo on the axle. Wow, that tmade the most difference of anything. Taking out all of the slop and flex the stock linkages had helped everything. I think it made more of a performance difference than the balance change or the shock relocation, just because the front wheels actually goe where I tell them to go now instead of wasting half the servo's movement on taking up slop. |
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10-08-2007, 08:04 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: My House
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Updated first post.
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10-09-2007, 06:51 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Indian Village Pontiac
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I prefer no music so you can hear the song of the motor and gears, and the ambient sounds of crawlin in the bush!!
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10-09-2007, 09:50 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corruptifornia
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 Neither of them are my kinda music, but I just sing along to myself...lol.  Nice crawlin area too, it can be hard to find good rocks. I'm lucky andhave some great areas close by, but as I drive around always scouting for more! Where's yer build thread? | |
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10-10-2007, 06:21 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: My House
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No build thread on it, there's not really anything new or exciting, nothing worth making a whole thread about. It's just the typical tried and true WK mods that's we've all seen. But it works well, so I figured a video thread was called for.... |
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10-14-2007, 11:18 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: lodi
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Nice rig
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03-11-2008, 12:17 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA
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what oil weight and internal springs are you using for the droop set-up?
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03-15-2008, 08:31 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Morristown
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I like it.
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Linear Mode
