The Knitting Circle
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Agree. Not ever. I'm still trying to figure out how they screwed up three diffs at once. Only thing I can even guess is that his wife had it in one of the weird terrain settings on pavement. I don't know how they work, but supposedly it's some dynamic semi-locked-but-not-quite-50/50-split or something, all the way to fully locked, or fully open. It's tweaky BS waiting to break if you ask me.
That lx has a duramax iirc
jemsec
Mach lll Club
Won't fit? I thought you could fit and fix anything with zip ties!
justbecause
perpetually lost.
Just zip tie it and plastiderp the seams. That sht'll ride.
On a related note to the previous comments about "finished"... French and I have been texting about rear suspension, and I got sucked into a vortex of reading about the N74L's... Dear. Lord. An hour of my life I won't get back. I wanted to stop but it was like rubbernecking at a train wreck. I couldn't tear myself away. People got a bit testy over that one.
jemsec
Mach lll Club
I'm sitting here by myself laughing out loud about-- "That sht'll ride"! Funny as h--l!
Land Speeder
InstaH8R
Hey, you was being serious! The other week we were out at the Preserve with our Wraith RC's and I started zip-tie'ing wraith back together after a wreck, and one of the guys asked "will that hold?..."
"s*** son! I hold my full sized crawler together with these!"
"s*** son! I hold my full sized crawler together with these!"
You into RC?
Land Speeder
InstaH8R
Not really. I just bought this wraith cause it's very addicting at offroad events when someone brings one out.
I've beat it like it stoled my bike... in fact, I'm heading to OakMtn Hobbies here in abit to get more links, because I broke two.
Custom wood grain dawg!
Land Speeder
InstaH8R
I bought minesez used off Craigslist. this thing has $150 beadlocks, pretty much upgraded in every component... the dude dropped ALOT of coin into it other than the frame.... he even bought the nice lockers! knuckles, links, all kinds of stuff upgraded. but the wood grain was my "Offroad Deliverance" touch!
I put a 3C Battery in it because RickyB was whoppin my wraith's ass in the hill climbing dept.
I've already roasted a motor, but they're easy to replace.
I put a 3C Battery in it because RickyB was whoppin my wraith's ass in the hill climbing dept.
I've already roasted a motor, but they're easy to replace.
Wow, sounds stout. I used to be into RC stuff years ago, and haven't really done much with it recently. I've got a fully locked 1/18 scale Losi MLST, but it was never anything but problems. Cool when it ran, but it blew diffs all the time, so I locked it with spools, then it started breaking dogbones every couple of battery packs.
Pretty much the only thing I've got that still runs and I actually crank up from time to time is a 1/8 scale buggy. That thing is tons of fun. I think the packs for my starter box are both shot though.
I remember when Axial started coming out with the kit crawler stuff, prior to them doing it you had to get axles off of something else, some custom stuff, parts from some other truck, and it was all pretty one off. A buddy of mine has a 4 wheel steer rig built off of Tamiya clod buster axles, on like 8" tires, it'll cross axle past 90 degrees, has 55 turn motors and at wide open throttle will only go about walking speed. It's pretty impressive, and even moreso that he built all the stuff mostly custom.
Land Speeder
InstaH8R
no doubt! I usually break within minutes of being out... can get very frustrating. You seen the stuff that these guys are doing recently? They're copying the high dollar rock bouncers! One guy will be at RBD in a few weeks with nearly every famous rock bouncer... but in RC form! Screamin' Blue, ShowTime, PlowBoy, even Cole's Jim's Garage Buggy has been replicated into a RC... these guys are getting nuts!
I've been told I drive my RC like I drive my crawler
I've been told I drive my RC like I drive my crawler
Gearing up to install a new H55F into my FJ60. Hope to have this finished in a couple of weeks, along with the t-case rebuild.
justbecause
perpetually lost.
I painted my wiper arms, they were getting pretty rusty.
Also installed an OEM air filter...
it was a long day.
Also installed an OEM air filter...
it was a long day.
Land Speeder
InstaH8R
fuggin beautiful!
wow at the colors!
wow at the colors!
Man I hate I missed it now. Glad the track came in handy.
We need to take a group of trucks up there with a little grill and some burgers or something and make a day of it.
To be honest, we had to cut it short today, so you didn't miss too terribly much. My daughter did great for the first 90 minutes or so, stop for lunch went great, then the wheels kinda fell off the trolley. I think with a couple of trips she'll do better, but for the first go at it, it was probably better that we were just kinda doing our own thing.