Yup its my favorite Gmaxx sofar .... :)

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Yea that is MonsterMikes original slipperential setup, and I believe he only produced like three or four of them as a test platform which was followed up by the RCM universal center diff/motor mount kit and his patented diff style slipper system. So yes very rare, and probably worth a few pennys for sure. They are kind of neat looking, and very solid construction, but a bit overkill compared to what is available now.

I think Mike actually produced a few before design change.
It was a great little product.
I ran one for a while until parted the truck out.

Them front knuckles look beefy.
Keep up the good work.

Thanks coolhand,

Finally got some more work done on the truck. I got side tracked a little and work has been keeping me busy. Tires and wheels should be here Monday or Tuesday. Only thing after that is a body or a cage. Haven't decided yet.


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Looks amazing, too bad those parts are really hard to find. True works of art.

Not much bling, but built to take a pounding and keep coming back for more. Definitely my kind of build, good job. My Emaxx is similar in concept, Rpm arms, FLM hybrids, Traxxas cvd's, Ofna buggy shocks, I just need to get rid of the stock chassis.

which buggy shocks did you use? If you don't mind my asking?

I used 8 Ofna LX series Front (rears are longer) buggy shocks that come on LX nitro, MBX, LX1e, etc. They can accept regular Maxx springs, or UE springs (UE Super Shocks are basically Ofna shocks), I used the Ofna yellow springs (nitro version) the shocks came with. I'd look up which springs are 1 or 2 steps higher in spring rate since my truck is mostly plastic (except for the combo bulks, skids and towers) and your truck is all aluminum. Nice build btw.

I already have UE shocks on the way but im always looking for something nice for my daughters build which i am doing next. thanks for the info. Where do you normally purchase them?

Thanks D3lap, there are some hard to find parts on this truck, but I finally decided they do no good sitting on my bench and I need to use them.

Got my tires/wheels today. Also tried on a few different bodies. Let me know what yall like best for a show body. If I run it with a body it will be a beater that i have on the shelf. Still searching for a cage i like.

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Shelve the RTV body and run the wrangler and ford!

I vote for the top one with raptor on side or the bronco one.

The last one!

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Jeep or the green and black chevy :mdr:

The first Raptor looks awesome. What paint did you use?

Sorry, I didn't paint it so I don't know what paint it is. That one is one of my favorites though.

Bronco body for sure:yes:

If you plan on hard bashing you might want to reconsider the RPM shock towers, they are so flexable they lead to bent shock shafts. I had the RPMs but swapped in FLMs after bending a bunch of shafts.

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Thanks buzzsaw. I've never had a problem with that before, but I'm planning on putting some racer x towers on it anyway.

I had planned on running this thing by now, but one of my batteries acted up on the charger and I just haven't bought a new one yet. It said open circuit on the charger, so I unplugged it. Didn't get hot or puff, but I'm not sure what open circuit means other than a connection isn't being made somewhere. Any help is appreciated.

I've been busy with my hardcore builds lately so this one hasnt been on my list of things to mess with.

Use a multimeter and check to make sure you get voltage at the balance tap. BrianG's speed calc has a page for balance taps showing how its wired. I have one pack that gives me trouble sometimes, checks out fine with multimeter, bit the pins on the pack don't always make contact with the balance board. Gives me the same error and stops charging.

After the issues I had with the RPM towers I would run stock before I ran RPM again. I bash pretty hard though. I'd hate to see you bugger up your progressives.

Who makes that shock in the middle? I have the power strokes, but the shock in the middle looks about 1mm thicker than the power strocks? Or are my eyes tricking me?

They were made by progressive suspension, dont think you can get them anymore. They are very cool though and have external damping adjustment.

Yes, they are progressive suspension shocks. Rare and hard to find these days. Personally though, the power strokes are my favorite. Sorry for the long response time, I have been really busy lately. Got a new build going and all my efforts have gone into it. This truck is done as far as the build goes, but I am experimenting with shocks. This truck was built to bash and I just don't want to ruin these progressive shocks. I'm probably going to run powerstrokes on it since I have so many sets of them and have tons of rebuild kits for them.

Ok guys, I know it has been a while since I updated this build but I have finally gotten back on it. When I assembled the truck and put the front skid plate on I noticed two of the holes in the front bulks were stripped. So I couldn't stand this so I had to put helicoils in them. Needless to say, It took a while to get it done. In the time I got on another build and just threw this one to the side and took a break on it. Now that summer is here though, I need a good truck to play with.

So I got it all finished and went for some testing. Decided to go with powerstroke shocks instead of the progressives simply because the powerstrokes are a lot softer the way I have them set up and will give me a lot more response the way I plan to drive it. The progressives would be great for extreme bashing, but thats not what I will really be doing. Also through on a rough body and just some old tires/wheels for testing.

P.S. I would sell the progressives if anyone wanted them.

First thing I found was the rpm tru track system has not performed. I've had them before and never an issue. This has different parts bolting to it and it seems its just not working with my setup. First thing I did was popped a pillow ball out of the knuckle. Then I have noticed on full unload of the suspension the traxxas steel axles are really close to falling out of the cups. I ran this system with stock traxxas plastic shafts and never had an issue, but it seems its not going to work with my setup.

My options are to either do normal rpm arms in the rear and run teckno carriers just like the front, or I could scrap the whole rpm plastic setup and go with an aluminum Integy racer X setup that I have recently gotten. Let me know what yall think.


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Here is a link to a quick video my brother took today. I was just beating it a little to see if the changes I made seemed like they were going to hold up. My brothers neighbors house was foreclosed on about 8 months ago, so I help out by keeping the grass cut for them since the bank isn't worried about how tall it gets. HAHA. Hopefully we will be getting more up very soon.

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Sorry for the bad quality, we will work on it. I ripped the body off in a little crash just before filming began, so I had to be a little careful.

looks like my videos, a fast ass maxx on mulchers can only prove it can eat a lawn in 45 seconds

The True Tracks do have a problem with the TRX cvds' popping out of the cups at or near full extension. I even had it in the front on my Maxx, I just tightened up the pillow balls a little more and ran different shock positions to get less droop.

Ive always wanted to run a RacerX equipped truck just to see what it was like. Ive never wanted to drop the coin though and never could find the Integy knock off either, so my vote is to give the Integy a shot and see either way...

I decided to go with the normal RPM arms on the truck and Teckno carriers on all four corners. Never even tried the integy racer X on the truck, instead I put it on another FLM chassis I had and built another truck. I will hopefully be running it soon to see what I think.

Overdriven, I know what you mean. I have wondered if the Racer X is really better than everything else. I have a real racer X but its like new and I just can't bring myself to run it. I will run the Integy and see if it is any better than the other maxx suspensions out there.