I have too many rigs to focus on individually for too long but I sure love my Ascender and I got around to giving it some love in the way of parts :mrgreen:
One mod was needed though, I finally bent or at least noticed I had bent the stock aluminum rear links, I do believe my alignment was a wee bit off
I picked up the Vaterra upgrade links, I'm on the K10 WB2 setup except I had extended the rear links with a 12mm spacer so I just got the 90mm links for the rear, and 66mm up front.
I also swapped out my MIP driveshafts using the GCM diff input shaft adapter and some Junfac driveshafts (95-130mm up front and 120-155 in back), the MIP's were fine but I've gotten tired of how sloppy the spline is. One thing to note about the Junfac shafts are that you cant cut down the female ends as only the last 1/4" or so is keyed to fit the male end, I had assumed you could but got lucky on lengths and didn't need to do any cutting
EDIT: I almost forgot I had to mod the output shaft on the transmission to get the Junfac drive shafts to line up with the flat of the shaft. The options are to extend the flat spot to the end of the shaft or to trim both the end of the output shaft and the end of the driveshaft, I opted for the latter. On the driveshaft end theres a step, I ground it down to just a hair shy of this step
I also ground 1/8" or so off of the output shaft after removing it from the transmission so I could push the driveshaft in far enough. Its a lot more work, I just didn't like the idea of grinding the flat by hand, its already a poor design when machined flat that is when the grub screws start backing out
I was afraid to do this but I put some SSD rear axle weights on my CodyBoy Design axle. The thing is both the axle and the weights are threaded so I was worried the threads wouldn't align and that I'd be cross threading it but I got lucky or the brass was soft enough to allow it
EDIT: I found the little spacer used on the sock setup was making the axle too tight and binding it, so I removed them.
This thing is super planted with all of the low down weight, It my best performing 1.9 rig for sure. My brother has nicknamed it the Ninja because it silently gets up an obstacle, you turn your head for a moment and its up before you can see it.
This was taken before stretching the wheelbase
One mod was needed though, I finally bent or at least noticed I had bent the stock aluminum rear links, I do believe my alignment was a wee bit off
I picked up the Vaterra upgrade links, I'm on the K10 WB2 setup except I had extended the rear links with a 12mm spacer so I just got the 90mm links for the rear, and 66mm up front.
I also swapped out my MIP driveshafts using the GCM diff input shaft adapter and some Junfac driveshafts (95-130mm up front and 120-155 in back), the MIP's were fine but I've gotten tired of how sloppy the spline is. One thing to note about the Junfac shafts are that you cant cut down the female ends as only the last 1/4" or so is keyed to fit the male end, I had assumed you could but got lucky on lengths and didn't need to do any cutting
EDIT: I almost forgot I had to mod the output shaft on the transmission to get the Junfac drive shafts to line up with the flat of the shaft. The options are to extend the flat spot to the end of the shaft or to trim both the end of the output shaft and the end of the driveshaft, I opted for the latter. On the driveshaft end theres a step, I ground it down to just a hair shy of this step
I also ground 1/8" or so off of the output shaft after removing it from the transmission so I could push the driveshaft in far enough. Its a lot more work, I just didn't like the idea of grinding the flat by hand, its already a poor design when machined flat that is when the grub screws start backing out
I was afraid to do this but I put some SSD rear axle weights on my CodyBoy Design axle. The thing is both the axle and the weights are threaded so I was worried the threads wouldn't align and that I'd be cross threading it but I got lucky or the brass was soft enough to allow it
EDIT: I found the little spacer used on the sock setup was making the axle too tight and binding it, so I removed them.
This thing is super planted with all of the low down weight, It my best performing 1.9 rig for sure. My brother has nicknamed it the Ninja because it silently gets up an obstacle, you turn your head for a moment and its up before you can see it.
This was taken before stretching the wheelbase
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Looks like the wheels are coming off and getting re-glued. 
