TXRCRCA

I guess I should start me a build thread.

Heres some specs.
17" WB
Clod axles
Pimp cane chasis
Moab XL's on dyed velocity 6 wheels (with weights)
55t lathes
9/8t pinions
TQ3 w/rear steer
TR2
Hitec 5955's front and rear
8.87lbs

I just got the 5955's today so I will start my thread from there.
Let me tell you these things are MONSTERS!!
Anways I went to Blockhouse Creek park today will a buddy and wheeled all day. Sorry no pictures, I forgot my damn camera.
I played on this solid rock hill for about a hour and could never get it. Its about 8' tall and about a 60* incline with a 90* ledge at the top.
The truck took some BIG falls but nothing broke. I did kill my body.

Here it is when it looked half way nice.

With the body off

After today......

Then the bling...

Ow and yesterday I broke the front passenger side knuckle so I have some aluminum GPM's on the way for the front.

Looks good man. Where's blockhouse creek park at ?

your body will buff out...

eric113 said:

Looks good man. Where's blockhouse creek park at ?

Its in a neighborhood called Blockhouse creek. Which is in Cedar Park.

Its a pretty sweet place. Lots of big climbs, ledges, rock gardens.

Ill try and get some pics the next time I go there.

eric113 said:

your body will buff out...

Hey atleast my narrowing job in the rear held up, cant say much for the rest of it though

what are the specs on that hi-tech?

STANG KILLA SS said:

what are the specs on that hi-tech?

Titanium gears
Heatsink case
333oz torque at 6v

So today I finally got a new body. Its a 72' Chevy C10 shortbed.
I spent most of the afternoon trimming/painting it.

I think it came out ok, not perfect but alot better then what I had before :D

I tried to keep most of the grill, mainly just the Chevy emblem. :D

The rear...

gotta love those c-10'sbet you don't have any problems with body rub! i like it man.

looks sweet, cant wait to see it in person in the 2nd

nice job with the c10!!

Thanks guys!! Im going to try and do a little crawling tomorrow so ill get some pictures of it on the rocks.

like the paint j0b...

85mudblazin said:

Titanium gears
Heatsink case
333oz torque at 6v

ouch $115 a piece! damn bro...

STANG KILLA SS said:

ouch $115 a piece! damn bro...

I actually got them both for $200 to my door. yea there pretty expensive but it saved me from having to make new servo mounts and draglinks. Not to mention there lighter and smaller the 1/4 scales :)

I would love to know where you got those at for 2oo shipped. I have been wanting those servos ever since I got into this

I got them off a vendor on ebay.
There like $95 each.

Well I was going to go out in the backyard and do some crawling. I was driving it through the house, went to turn and POP.

Looks like the pin that is pressed into the inner axle shaft dropeed jamming the steering, after that the servo just had its way with the plastic.

That really sucks man ...its actually kind of amusing to me due to the fact, right after I say I want those for my TLT setup THIS happens to your clod. hmmmmm do I really neeeeed 333opi @6v...............................

HELL YEAH

ouch, that must hurt the wallet some, hope you get it fixed for the 2nd

Yea I just bought some Thundertech CVD axles!! That should fix that problem. I also got a pair of new axle tubes, and new cases while I was at it (they were pretty beat up when i got them).
About a $70 break

All well hopefully it wont happen again.

wow, with being only 15, if i had a break like that, i would be screwed because if lack of money, but thats were my work comes in (Auto Zone)

CRUSHER1 said:

wow, with being only 15, if i had a break like that, i would be screwed because if lack of money, but thats were my work comes in (Auto Zone)

Dont get me wrong im not just some rich punk. I am just a VERY tight spender. SO any money that I do make gets saved for times like this.
Of course no girlfriend or house payment helps alot also

ya, they dont help much

I really like the metal rod ends.

Does anyone make C's for the Clod axles like they do for TLT axles? Seems like a weak and vulnerable spot especially with all that torque pulling and pushing on it all the time.

onespeeder said:

Does anyone make C's for the Clod axles like they do for TLT axles? Seems like a weak and vulnerable spot especially with all that torque pulling and pushing on it all the time.

Well the axle tubes and C's are all one piece. They do make all aluminum ones but there like $150 for just the front axle!!

damn! you break alot! i dont think ive ever broke anything....ever... but my axles were brand new. these last two sets are used... we'll see how they hold up...
i wish i had no g/f, car payment, house payment....
how old are ya mud? 21?

yea im a little ruff on my toys

I am 18.

I am more of a own my own business type person. For the last 2 years I mowed lawns( yea laugh). I mowed one lawn a day and charged $50 a lawn. Now these houses were on lake austin. So they were VERY small and the people were VERY rich. I got really tired of that and now I build 1:1 crawlers for people.

I am fixing to just start doing that on my spare time and go to work for a friend who is opening up a Express Oil change down the street as a mechanic.

wow, your only 3 years older than me, wait a minute, i didnt know i could count that high, lol, but at least i dont feel like the only young one in the group

CRUSHER1 said:

wow, your only 3 years older than me, wait a minute, i didnt know i could count that high, lol, but at least i dont feel like the only young one in the group

Yep we will have to stick together and woop up on the old folks at the comp

get off my lawn! darn kids. where's my walker. wait, where am I? aw screw it i'm going back to bed and watch some Matlock.

lol, ya travis, wasnt it YOUR back that was hurting, and I had to but the body clips on, lol j/k, ya we will have to woop there a55's

Hey 85 I don't know if you already have some on order but rc4wd.com has axle tube for 5.99 a pair.

Thanks I got them for $5 from RCP. I ordered all of my parts from there.
They have a pretty nice website.
http://www.rcpcrawlers.com/index1.html

like the new body and paint looks sweet !

85mudblazin said:

I am more of a own my own business type person. For the last 2 years I mowed lawns( yea laugh). I mowed one lawn a day and charged $50 a lawn. Now these houses were on lake austin. So they were VERY small and the people were VERY rich. I got really tired of that and now I build 1:1 crawlers for people.

hey i might need some tube work done on my rig. what kinda work are you doing?

BOWTIE said:

hey i might need some tube work done on my rig. what kinda work are you doing?

I can do it all. What do you need done?

i'll send you a pm so this post doesn't get hijacked.. this is bowtie by the way...

Well I got my axle tubes, cases, and CVD's in today. I just finished putting it all back together. I am using some stock plastic knuckles just to see how it looks. My aluminum ones will be here tomorrow.
The CVD's made my track width 3/4" wider. It went from 14" to 14 3/4". I guess it will help with stability a little.
Anways heres some pictures. Im going to have to do some weird draglink and tierod mods to get them to clear the case.

Heres is the width difference front and back, should help to turn better with the front wider.

New turning radius

Modded stock vs. the new

wow, those are quite a bit wider. i wish they would make the cvd's for the tlt already.

i think there in the works. rockwerks on RCC has mentioned them several times

Well I got my aluminum knuckles in yesterday, they work GREAT. I have alot more steering angle then the old plastic knuckles.

I also built a new 2500mah RX pack using the Energizer batteries. They are cheap and work AWESOME. I get about 4 hours of run time out of the pack.

I picked up some battery bars today, im thinking about moving my main pack under each front knuckle. Just have to figure out how to attatch them to the knuckles.

Heres some pictures of some tree crawlin'

Well I went ahead and built some knuckle packs. 3 3900mah Sub Cs under each front knuckle. I used Dean's 12g wire for all of it.
It took me awhile to figure out how to attatch them to the knuckles since the aluminum ones are nothing like the stockers. So I went to HD and got some 1" PVC, I then used 4 screws to hold it to the knuckles. It works like a champ!!

I could not BELIEVE what a difference it made. I have a rock ledge in front of my house, before I would roll everytime.I just went out there and it walked up it the first try I was AMAZED!!
Anyways heres some pictures.

nice!

Plastic sucks!!!

ouch get it fixed! i wanna compete against you. i thought i could still maybe beat you until you did the knuckle packs... now im not so sure.! get it fixed man!

yea I luckily had a spare, so im good to go.

Took another hard roll today.....im done with this plastic stuff. Just going to pony up for the aluminum tubes.

lol for you id suggest some of those homemade steel tubes ive seen around!