ctrwannabe
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this is gonna be a cool rig ! nice work so far
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TJ low-rider - 2010 Scale Nats Trail rig build
- Thread starter ecoli
- Start date
alaskancrawler
Rock Crawler
t-case
Where did you get this t-case? Awesome build.
Where did you get this t-case? Awesome build.
5150bronco
RCC Addict
like the bumper and brackets...
did you use square tube? what did you make brackets out of? sheet metal?
did you use square tube? what did you make brackets out of? sheet metal?
mmbackpacker
Quarry Creeper
Looking real good Ecoli! I like what you did with the body!
ecoli
I wanna be Dave
Sorry for the lack of updates. The flu is wreaking havoc in the house currently. I've managed to avoid it so far, but have been playing nurse/clean-up crew for others 
I've also got my son's birthday party this Saturday, so my wife is freaking out about getting the place spotless for the kids coming over, which means extra cleaning duty for me. Geez, they're six years old, I don't think they care
Anyways, some update pics. Got my parts back from the laser cutter. I stupidly wrote down 1/8" stainless steel instead of 18ga for the belly sides. Guess what? 1/8" stainless doesn't bend too easily on the brake! Other than that, the other parts worked well with minimal modification:
Steering servo in the middle, winch servo on top. With the t-case having no reduction inside, I decided to mount up the Axial tranny under the hood. Fit fine but the spur gear almost rubbed on the firewall and the spur gear nut did rub a little. So did a little trimming:
A little styrene work on the inside and you can't even tell I did anything. The dash covers up the bigger hole. If I wasn't running a slipper, wouldn't have to do this at all, but since I am, the cutting was necessary (hey, less weight, right?).
Next was putting some finishing touches on the hinges and door handles:
As it sits currently:
Well, not really. I've totally stripped it down and sent off all the metal parts to the powdercoaters. Body has been prepped and ready for paint. At this point, since the chassis rails are with the powdercoaters, it'll be at least a week before anyone, including myself, sees this rig back together again. Hopefully I'll have the body painted up in the meantime.
I've also got my son's birthday party this Saturday, so my wife is freaking out about getting the place spotless for the kids coming over, which means extra cleaning duty for me. Geez, they're six years old, I don't think they care Anyways, some update pics. Got my parts back from the laser cutter. I stupidly wrote down 1/8" stainless steel instead of 18ga for the belly sides. Guess what? 1/8" stainless doesn't bend too easily on the brake
! Other than that, the other parts worked well with minimal modification:
Steering servo in the middle, winch servo on top. With the t-case having no reduction inside, I decided to mount up the Axial tranny under the hood. Fit fine but the spur gear almost rubbed on the firewall and the spur gear nut did rub a little. So did a little trimming:
A little styrene work on the inside and you can't even tell I did anything. The dash covers up the bigger hole. If I wasn't running a slipper, wouldn't have to do this at all, but since I am, the cutting was necessary (hey, less weight, right?).
Next was putting some finishing touches on the hinges and door handles:
As it sits currently:
Well, not really. I've totally stripped it down and sent off all the metal parts to the powdercoaters. Body has been prepped and ready for paint. At this point, since the chassis rails are with the powdercoaters, it'll be at least a week before anyone, including myself, sees this rig back together again. Hopefully I'll have the body painted up in the meantime.
ecoli
I wanna be Dave
Sure. I was planning on pm'ing him once it's closer to finished to let him know, but if you see him, by all means. As I said, not an exact replica of his rig, but definitely using a lot of cues from his build.
Ah Matt, don't sell yourself short. Your Bronco is very very nice "thumbsup"
Nah, it's either Teal or big balls yellow
Thanks!
Where did you get this t-case? Awesome build.
Yes, it's very nice, very low profile. I know there's been some comparison pics of the RC4WD t-case and this one, and it's a much smaller footprint. Full bearings and hardened steel gears and outputs plus the machined case means I shouldn't have to replace anything on it. Probably just pull it apart once in a while after playing in the water to re-grease "thumbsup"
Bumpers are 1/2" square tube with sheet steel brazed on to the ends. By brackets are you referring to the mounting brackets for the bumpers? Those are 1/8" steel that I had my laser cutter "drill" 3mm holes in about 6mm apart on 1 foot lengths. I just chop off what I need and braze it to the part I'm mounting.
Told you not much was left of it :mrgreen:
ecoli
I wanna be Dave
Pink of course
Yep, good old black. Depends on what he runs next, but either flat black or semi-gloss black I said were fine. They just throw in these small parts with bigger orders, makes it a lot cheaper for me since they're not having to turn on the oven for just a few small parts and makes them some money since they're just throwing them in the oven. I do make them work on the prep side of things, making sure they plug all the holes/nuts and wrap the threads :mrgreen:. They do enough business that I usually have parts back within a week or so.
team3six
www.team3sixrc.com
Looks good man and thanks for the heads up on the T case!. But I have to tell ya! I HATE them seats :mrgreen:
5150bronco
RCC Addict
Sure. I was planning on pm'ing him once it's closer to finished to let him know, but if you see him, by all means. As I said, not an exact replica of his rig, but definitely using a lot of cues from his build.
Ah Matt, don't sell yourself short. Your Bronco is very very nice "thumbsup"
Nah, it's either Teal or big balls yellow
Thanks!
Yes, it's very nice, very low profile. I know there's been some comparison pics of the RC4WD t-case and this one, and it's a much smaller footprint. Full bearings and hardened steel gears and outputs plus the machined case means I shouldn't have to replace anything on it. Probably just pull it apart once in a while after playing in the water to re-grease "thumbsup"
Bumpers are 1/2" square tube with sheet steel brazed on to the ends. By brackets are you referring to the mounting brackets for the bumpers? Those are 1/8" steel that I had my laser cutter "drill" 3mm holes in about 6mm apart on 1 foot lengths. I just chop off what I need and braze it to the part I'm mounting.
Told you not much was left of it :mrgreen:
yea, the brackets that you mounted the shocks.
where did you get the square tube? thanks.
ecoli
I wanna be Dave
Well, I might pick up a new set of seats when I'm in Montana
! I had them handy, so they work for now. Need some more money in the paypal account, I bought a few other essentials for this build and it's looking a little sad at the moment :mrgreen:Shocks are just mounted to the stock SCX shock mounts on the frame. All the other steel parts (bumpers, upper 4-link trusses, cage) I fabbed up myself.
Square tube, and a lot of my metal supplies, I get at Metal Supermarkets. They don't have minimum orders so it works well for the hobbyist "thumbsup"
ecoli
I wanna be Dave
A bit more progress. I started painting the body, but unfortunately the paint wrinkled on the hood, so now I have to sand and start from scratch on it :evil: This is starting to be the "do everything twice" build. Oh well!
Al (localish electronics guru :mrgreen
has modified my winch servo with the anti-drift winch servo thingy and done up a set of lights for me. He sent me lots of progress pics of the whole modification. I think it's all pretty self explanatory, but;
Servo:
Remove back cover:
Remove stock circuit board:
Solder in winch controller:
Seal up and done:
Al's also got another servo that wasn't working for me, but seems to be now, so I'll end up with two winches. Always good to have a spare! Also a quick pic of the lights:
Got some of the other essentials together:
Waterproof HH torquemaster esc and proline scaler shocks. I'm hoping to have a little sprung suspension in the shock area, so may have to fool around with these a bit to get the right ride height. These shocks are really nice in that the diameter with springs is the same as the big bores without any springs on, and the shafts on these are a lot thicker than big bores. Travel seems to be nice and smooth with 30wt oil in them.
Now I just need to repaint the body and get all the parts back from the powdercoater and I should be good to go.
Al (localish electronics guru :mrgreen
has modified my winch servo with the anti-drift winch servo thingy and done up a set of lights for me. He sent me lots of progress pics of the whole modification. I think it's all pretty self explanatory, but;Servo:
Remove back cover:
Remove stock circuit board:
Solder in winch controller:
Seal up and done:
Al's also got another servo that wasn't working for me, but seems to be now, so I'll end up with two winches. Always good to have a spare! Also a quick pic of the lights:
Got some of the other essentials together:
Waterproof HH torquemaster esc and proline scaler shocks. I'm hoping to have a little sprung suspension in the shock area, so may have to fool around with these a bit to get the right ride height. These shocks are really nice in that the diameter with springs is the same as the big bores without any springs on, and the shafts on these are a lot thicker than big bores. Travel seems to be nice and smooth with 30wt oil in them.
Now I just need to repaint the body and get all the parts back from the powdercoater and I should be good to go.
JOOTZ
RCC Addict
good idea on posting the servo/winch conversion. thanks
montana.matt
RCC Addict
Sick, sick, sick"thumbsup"
Hurry up and get that beotch repainted:lol:
Hurry up and get that beotch repainted:lol:
Dillpickle
Rock Crawler
OD GREEN!!!!!:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
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