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01-13-2009, 01:30 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: in the shop, of corse!
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got bored this weekend.... 13" l x 5" h x 3 1/2" now i just gotta put it back together    |
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01-13-2009, 04:07 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: owasso
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looks good man...cant wait to see it all together
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01-14-2009, 10:39 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: kelowna
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Looks nice. I'd be worried about the strength of the link mounts though.
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01-16-2009, 02:59 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: in the shop, of corse!
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i am waiting for the UPS dude right now ordered a couple hundred steel bushings the other day to be used for 4 link mounts...shock mounts..radio tray gonna have all of them mounted in double sheer..i am making triangulated sub assemblies for 4-link upper mounts did a quick mock up of the chassis while waiting to see where exactly i wanted mounts and etc. ****camera on its last leg****  added a uhmw plastic skid..which will be notched and tapered later to move lower links inboard lost some clearance and track width going with the axial narrow wheels ..so added wheel wideners..trying two different ones got the track back to 15 1/2" with the narrower ones(front) rear ended up too wide..16 1/2"..I'l keep them for another project with the lower links "temp" stuck into body mount holes 4" approx ended up with exactly 18" wheelbase..seems a little long but i like it gonna loose a bit  the shocks are also gonna get moved to a more upright position in front shocks are hpi super savage singles HUGE !! have some internal springs also but not installed yet thinking bout "free droop and winching down" in pic still got almost an inch of droop GOTTA GO UPS IS HERE!!! Last edited by gadge; 01-16-2009 at 03:12 PM. | |
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01-16-2009, 03:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Iowa, the antirecreation state!
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That's sharp! I like it. You guys get yer axle shaft delema figured out? Sorry I havn't kept up with most of the XTM posts.
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01-17-2009, 08:11 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tax Nation
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Im digging that chassis... did you use 3/16 tube or 1/8 solid rod?
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01-17-2009, 10:34 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: in the shop, of corse!
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 didnt do enough crawlin to break an axle yet we dont run supers in the winter so i am ok for now really want to clock my axles..but ill wait for them to break that way half the work is done | |
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01-17-2009, 11:14 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: in the shop, of corse!
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doesnt weigh much either..weight as pic(with thick body panels) 8.5oz!! if anyone stops and figures it out 1/10 scale 1/8 rod=1 1/4 and the 5/32 = 1 1/2.. also it bends around a "correct" radius ive been a pipe fitter/fabricaror in heavy industry for almost 20 yrs also did a bunch of work on my friends Pro-Mod camaro having bent thousands of feet of pipe and tubing having the wrong radius was driving me crazy so much so ...that your gonna see a blue star here within a couple of days..shhhh  no one looks here often
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01-21-2009, 11:48 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Plymouth
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what are u using for lower links? or did u just bend the stock ones ?
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01-21-2009, 02:43 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Crawlarado
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I bet those are custom just because of his job lol I wish he would get on because he had the axel problem also I think | |
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