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Originally Posted by lincpimp

Thnaks! I was either going to use one of the 18 wheeler style bodies from proline, or buy the tsr body (that body is kinda ugly...).

Ah! my only plan for the body was to find a large enough cab that might fit most of the wheel width under and then match that by buildin fenders like those on a real semi. Im in the same boat as you cant really find a body that tickles my pickle :)

On a side note do you have a picture of you plastic welder? been wondering what that looks like?

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by magman

These 6x6 trucks are pretty cool. If someone made one w/all wheel steering.... I know that it would be a challenge but it would be pretty cool.

Pretty easy with this truck. You can install a lst steering setup for the center wheels, as the lst1 chassis is basically mirrored front to rear. As for the rear wheels, I would have to redesign the brace, but it would not be too difficult to do. I would have to use either an 1/8 scale style bellcrank setup, or make a shortened version of the stock chassis to connect the front to the rear. Either way it would not be too difficult. I stuck with fixed wheels as I plan to jump this truck, and the fixed lst2 rear hubs are much stronger.

Originally Posted by its me

Ah! my only plan for the body was to find a large enough cab that might fit most of the wheel width under and then match that by buildin fenders like those on a real semi. Im in the same boat as you cant really find a body that tickles my pickle :)

On a side note do you have a picture of you plastic welder? been wondering what that looks like?

I had contemplated building a cab for the front, but decided that a lexan body may be better as I do plan to beat the truck up...

I would like to do a larger scale semi build... Maybe I will keep a look out for a big body...

I have a smaller 6x6 that I am working on, it use tamiya tlt live axles. I plan to make a flat front semi style cab out of brake tube (mimic the shape of a semi cab at least) and have a full tilt/sliding bed like a flat bead wrecker. That way I can drive my scale crawler truck on it!

[lincpimp]

So I was going to do a 6s setup with a MMM and a hacker c50xl. Well, I decided to do something more interesting. I have a 1521 2.5y smooth can motor and 10s lipo hanging around. I also have a lutach 10s esc that ids currently not in use.

So I came to this setup as i was deciding how to make the motor mount. Due to lack of clearance between the single servo and the tranny I could not mount the lipos up front. So I dedided that the motor would fit better there, and i could place the lipos behind the tranny. They are 2 5s packs, so one can sit in a cutom tray where the fuel tank normally sits, and the other could sit on its side in another cutom tray in the stock ntro engine location.

I planned to use some thick al flat stock to create a L shaped motor mount. But I started looking at the savage flux mounts and decided that they could be used to hold the motor in place. They would be much stronger than the L shaped mount, and support the motor at both ends. Since I am making another chassis plate I can put some slotted holes to allow for mesh adjustment. In order to get the desired speed, I will have to use 59/30 gearing. Motor speed is low, 10s lipo with the 2.5y is around 23k rpm. So it should run cool, but I hope it starts easy... I do still have the high/low selectable gearing in the tranny, and I think I will be in low gear most of the time, so it should not matter too much.