Ax10 Based crawler project - RC-Monster Forums

lincpimp · **Picture time! -** 11.05.2008, 11:38 AM

And the moment that you have all been waiting for...

My custom cut chassis side plates and upperlink/servo mounts, plus pics of the other large assemblies:

I was going to use a 1/4 scale servo, but it was a bit too wide to fit with the long upper links. I will trim the side of the pede trans when I get the smaller pinion.

lincpimp · 11.05.2008, 11:47 AM

Some finished pics. I love the tiny tlt body! Somehow I forgot to order a body for this truck, but the tlt body looks so funny I may leave it for a while...

Gave it a good test run last night and it performed quite well. Lower gearing would be nice, I have some smaller 5mm bore 32p pinions coming. I need longer springs, I am currently using losi 10th buggy rear springs, and need to get some losi 10th truck rear springs. My ground clearance needs to be about 1/4" higher and it should be about right. Otherwise all of the equipment ran great, no heat to speak of. My steering servo would cut out for a few seconds sometimes. Not sure why, but I may swap in a bigger jr 8711 and see how that does.

Seems like a success, the badlands tires are really good, even with the stock foams. I did narrow the foams a bit, cut off about 1/4 of the total width. The tires seemed too fat with the stock width foam on the narrow proline wheels.

lincpimp · 11.05.2008, 08:48 PM

Stepped down to a 16 tooth pinion from the 18t that I had. Much better low speed driveability. I cannot make the esc cog or glitch, even rolling backwards down a slope it will stop and run forwards with the smallest throttle input. CC did a great job with the sidewinder, excellent speed control for 2.2 and an outrunner.

11.05.2008, 10:11 PM

Holy GC1 knock off

looks good James

lincpimp · 11.05.2008, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by chip cross

Holy GC1 knock off

looks good James

I call it the J-Keeper chassis. All of the link geometry is the same and the skid is off Erik's crawler. I bought the axial skid for him, his gc1 has an ax10 tranny now...

Just need some xxx-t rear springs, the ones I have are a bit short, and are too firm with a preload spacer to get the correct ride height. A longer shock end would help with the ride height, but 8 bucks worth of springs is easier...