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I wanna be Dave
And I caught a beauty!
Seriously this thing is gorgeous.
My wife asked me what wanted for my birthday, I told her I wanted a TF2 Marlin Crawler. She laughed, I laughed, and I kind of forgot about it.
Well 3 days after my birthday, the big brown truck pulls up in front of our house and heās got a good sized box in his hands?
As soon as I opened the door, I saw the RC4WD tape on the box and I knew Iād been had! I was really excited though as I really like the TF2 platform.
I had bought a new TF2 when they came out in 2012 but I ended up in ICU for a month and shortly after getting out of the hospital, I was feeling burned out on Crawlers and sold it.
Never even drove it.
So now I have the Marlin, I have to say, this thing is way cooler than the TF2 I had so long ago!
The tires and wheels are both good looking and these have to be the softest and stickiest RTR tires Iād ever experienced.
The front bumper is metal and kind of s cool design, not sure if Iāll keep it, but it does look cool.
The body has the comp cut front and bobbed bed which will save me the time of having to do it, and the axles look a little different(?).
Been doing lots of reading and Iāve already stared making mods.
āUpgradesā so far :
Springs removed from shocks.
Shocks filled with 4000 weight diff fluid.
Hardware replaced with stainless.
Tires disassembled and 113 grams of weight added.
Bottom helper spring removed.
Transfer case disassembled and marine grease applied to the gears.
Still need to:
Chino mod the ends of the springs.
Disassemble, grease and shim the diffs.
Disassemble, and grease the transmission.
Install A&M Garage shackle reversal kit.
Replace the factory transfer case skid (Not sure which one to get A&M Garage, Bow House, N2R, etc...
Any suggestions?
Plan on updating all of the electronics too.
Anyways, an obligatory pic for the masses!

Seriously this thing is gorgeous.
My wife asked me what wanted for my birthday, I told her I wanted a TF2 Marlin Crawler. She laughed, I laughed, and I kind of forgot about it.
Well 3 days after my birthday, the big brown truck pulls up in front of our house and heās got a good sized box in his hands?
As soon as I opened the door, I saw the RC4WD tape on the box and I knew Iād been had! I was really excited though as I really like the TF2 platform.
I had bought a new TF2 when they came out in 2012 but I ended up in ICU for a month and shortly after getting out of the hospital, I was feeling burned out on Crawlers and sold it.
Never even drove it.
So now I have the Marlin, I have to say, this thing is way cooler than the TF2 I had so long ago!
The tires and wheels are both good looking and these have to be the softest and stickiest RTR tires Iād ever experienced.
The front bumper is metal and kind of s cool design, not sure if Iāll keep it, but it does look cool.
The body has the comp cut front and bobbed bed which will save me the time of having to do it, and the axles look a little different(?).
Been doing lots of reading and Iāve already stared making mods.
āUpgradesā so far :
Springs removed from shocks.
Shocks filled with 4000 weight diff fluid.
Hardware replaced with stainless.
Tires disassembled and 113 grams of weight added.
Bottom helper spring removed.
Transfer case disassembled and marine grease applied to the gears.
Still need to:
Chino mod the ends of the springs.
Disassemble, grease and shim the diffs.
Disassemble, and grease the transmission.
Install A&M Garage shackle reversal kit.
Replace the factory transfer case skid (Not sure which one to get A&M Garage, Bow House, N2R, etc...
Any suggestions?
Plan on updating all of the electronics too.
Anyways, an obligatory pic for the masses!

