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Because I’m jealous of my wife’s rig, scale truck build
- Thread starter Jfrisch1
- Start date
opening doors are a bit crap. my 70 came with them. Had to use gentle persuasion to make them flush with the body. Also filed the edge where are the hinges to not rub. The functional windows are a gamble because they are glued shut after assembly. My kid forced one down and now it it permanent.
Yeah it’s a really cool concept but the functionality isn’t there. My wife’s tf2 body with doors functions just fine with no issues. Of course it has no door cards and the windows are glue in, but still. I’d like them to work but the amount of times I’ll actually open them is very little lol
The one that comes with the body? I’ve given one to my son to build with the other cab I have. I returned the Rc4wd one for this one. It’s almost identical, besides a few different holes already in the bed.
Doing some rear shock tuning/ adjustments.
As you can see, the bed makes the rear just sit all the way down on the tire. Placement of shocks per build manual. Which would be fine if the bed wasn’t so heavy lol
Since I don’t have any springs that fit these shocks and the extras that come with it are softer than these red ones, I’ve moved the springs around. I put the short spring on the top and the longer on bottom. If I crank down the adjusting nut, it seems to give it a stiffer feel. I’d assume because the short spring is almost compressed. Made a bit of a difference but I also moved the shock location to the rear and up slightly.
You can see the passenger (rh driver) is now sitting off the tire while the driver is still sitting on the tire, or close to it.
Now to fix the drivers side and I think it’ll be good for now. With the weight of the bed there is already tire rubs on the frame of the bed since it just sits right there when driving it lol
As you can see, the bed makes the rear just sit all the way down on the tire. Placement of shocks per build manual. Which would be fine if the bed wasn’t so heavy lol
Since I don’t have any springs that fit these shocks and the extras that come with it are softer than these red ones, I’ve moved the springs around. I put the short spring on the top and the longer on bottom. If I crank down the adjusting nut, it seems to give it a stiffer feel. I’d assume because the short spring is almost compressed. Made a bit of a difference but I also moved the shock location to the rear and up slightly.
You can see the passenger (rh driver) is now sitting off the tire while the driver is still sitting on the tire, or close to it.
Now to fix the drivers side and I think it’ll be good for now. With the weight of the bed there is already tire rubs on the frame of the bed since it just sits right there when driving it lol
Just moving the placement of the shock on the frame made a huge difference. Before: shocks are fully compressed with the adjustment nut all the way down. Now: adjustment nut is 3-4 turns from the top and the rear has about 3/8” gap between tire and wheel well, which is what I wanted.
This was before I raised the adjustment nut, because like this on both sides it was sitting way up! Still love the fact that boom racing chassis have pre threaded holes in the frame for adjustments like this. Makes it so much easier than either drilling a new hole or adding a nut to the inside.
This was before I raised the adjustment nut, because like this on both sides it was sitting way up! Still love the fact that boom racing chassis have pre threaded holes in the frame for adjustments like this. Makes it so much easier than either drilling a new hole or adding a nut to the inside.
That bed is from Killerbody too? there's another similar from another brand. I have the one from killerbody and I've found the hinges quite fragile. I broke several before the truck was even finished. Replaced them by small metal hinges
That bed is from Killerbody too? there's another similar from another brand. I have the one from killerbody and I've found the hinges quite fragile. I broke several before the truck was even finished. Replaced them by small metal hinges
This bed is actually from vm. It’s similar to the cchand one. Or the Rc4wd kober bed. It’s all metal.
I thought about doing that bed you have but I knew I’d be annoyed building it. I think I saw you comment somewhere before I started that you had problems with the the hinges.
You've dodged a bullet...
