C*H*U*D
No idea what I'm doing
$100.....that was the price of a new Creeper when I bought mine. I had to find out what was going on with this truck.
I had some spare cash to buy the Creeper, and enough spare parts laying around to put into it, so I decided to see for myself what the Creeper was all about. I won't bore anyone with a build thread...everyone knows what that looks like. I do want to hit on a few things that I noticed when putting it together.
I'm the type of builder that likes to put things together, see how they work and then do the lube/loctite routine. I put together my VCD axles, and then turned them full lock and rotated them in my fingers. I noticed the short shaft (VEN-8364a) turned smoothly, but the long shaft (VEN-8365a) had 2 glitches in the rotation when in the position below:
I noticed it was the same with both long shafts. I took it apart to see where the binding was coming from, and noticed the long shaft bound the pin during full throw of the steering. Short shaft is on the left, long on the right:
I took a small round jewelers file and cleaned up long shafts slot, so that the pin is no longer bound. I did one side first and left the other alone for comparison. This side is done:
This side is the way it came out of the box:
Once both sides were done, it rotated just like the short shaft...no binding when turning a full 360. I also run the 3/8" brass tubing collars on the outside of my output shafts to keep the pins in place. I saw that these were being sold here, but also heard they were no longer selling them, so I made my own. I also do not use the set screw to hold the pins in place. I want them to float freely without any binding.
So far I have about 4 packs through it with no problems.I drive the Creeper just as I would my Axial's... I don't baby it, and nothing has happened yet.
I did break the front driveshaft, but that probably could have also been prevented. I now run Junfac's front and rear.
I had some spare cash to buy the Creeper, and enough spare parts laying around to put into it, so I decided to see for myself what the Creeper was all about. I won't bore anyone with a build thread...everyone knows what that looks like. I do want to hit on a few things that I noticed when putting it together.
I'm the type of builder that likes to put things together, see how they work and then do the lube/loctite routine. I put together my VCD axles, and then turned them full lock and rotated them in my fingers. I noticed the short shaft (VEN-8364a) turned smoothly, but the long shaft (VEN-8365a) had 2 glitches in the rotation when in the position below:

I noticed it was the same with both long shafts. I took it apart to see where the binding was coming from, and noticed the long shaft bound the pin during full throw of the steering. Short shaft is on the left, long on the right:

I took a small round jewelers file and cleaned up long shafts slot, so that the pin is no longer bound. I did one side first and left the other alone for comparison. This side is done:

This side is the way it came out of the box:

Once both sides were done, it rotated just like the short shaft...no binding when turning a full 360. I also run the 3/8" brass tubing collars on the outside of my output shafts to keep the pins in place. I saw that these were being sold here, but also heard they were no longer selling them, so I made my own. I also do not use the set screw to hold the pins in place. I want them to float freely without any binding.
So far I have about 4 packs through it with no problems.I drive the Creeper just as I would my Axial's... I don't baby it, and nothing has happened yet.
I did break the front driveshaft, but that probably could have also been prevented. I now run Junfac's front and rear.