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Little Dude’s Enduro Adventure

AnimalHippie

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Ocala, Florida, USA
Back a few months ago my little dude got a package in the mail from uncle Ernie (CODYBOY). I had no clue he was sending anything. He had just said a few months prior that little dude was looking like he was ready for is own rig.

I get home from work one afternoon to find his package sitting at the front door. Little dude was so excited when I told him that the package was for him. When he pulled the truck out of the box. He was blown away. Next words were “can we drive it!?” And “let’s go to the garage!!!” This is what was in the box.

G-speed flat rail chassis
CODYBOY brass enduro SSD Diamond axles
Stealth Trans
HH 500v2 servo
Mamba X esc
KLR 4.19 tires

The rig was not ready for the rocks so he couldn’t go run it yet, but we did get to wrenching on it. We adjusted the links to get better driveshaft angles, outboarded the bottoms of the shocks for more stability, built mounts for a battery tray, trimmed the body for tire clearance and setup the electronics. The following weekend he got to run it.


He was so stoked! He loves running his new rig! We haven’t done much more wrenching on it. Just been putting it on the rocks whenever we get a chance.


It does pretty good for being a tiny tire belly dragger. It struggles in some areas my Nukizer walks right through, but also has pulled some sick sidehill lines the Nuk won’t. Thanks for checking out his rig! I’ll try to keep the thread updated whenever we get on the rocks or do any wrenching. Here’s a pic I got of it pulling a sick line on the backyard course last weekend. Have a good one!
 
Ernie and Marcia are such kind folks. Had the pleasure of meeting them a few years back. Wish we could've had more time.

I love how stoked your little guy looks behind the wheel. And for whatever reason I think it's great that y'all had to put in a little wrench time before being able to run. I feel like that one of those things for a youngster that helps build character... patience vs instant gratification or something like that. Thanks for sharing, Justin.
 
Ernie and Marcia are such kind folks. Had the pleasure of meeting them a few years back. Wish we could've had more time.

I love how stoked your little guy looks behind the wheel. And for whatever reason I think it's great that y'all had to put in a little wrench time before being able to run. I feel like that one of those things for a youngster that helps build character... patience vs instant gratification or something like that. Thanks for sharing, Justin.

I was so happy to get to meet them during their cross country trip they did back in 2018. Wish they would’ve stayed longer.

I agree. I was glad it wasn’t rtr and we had to do some wrenching to get it going. Kids now days have a hard time not getting that instant gratification. He had no issue with it tho. He loves being at the workbench with me. He has his own tools and a pile of random nuts, bolts, etc that he likes to stack on the magnet tray. You should see how pissed he gets if I wrench on one of our 1:1 vehicles without him lol.
 
Congrats to your little dude. Very nice of CODYBOY! I don't think he's active on this site anymore. Is he still active in the hobby?
 
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