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I'm going to check this again, but I bent the pinch seams as much as possible and preloaded it until the rig was off the ground.
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I might have to start an RC mini crawler build thread... This is stupid fun. And yes, I'm a child.
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When I told my wife I needed to add some upgrades she regretted giving it to me immediately, I think. The wraith looks pretty sweet, this is just the 24 - a fun small intro car.
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But a Bronco!?!?
I think it's a scout, but the other options are a truck like @thekidwithquestions has or a brodozer. In any case, it's a blast. It'll be coming to Moab.
Mine is the 70s Chevy C10, is pretty cool,ive cut it up some tho, to increase approach angle.
I'd defiantly recommend getting some replacement lipo batterys
Rightnow im trying to raise the upper shock mounts to increase up travel -nerd-
the mini suspension is so fun to work on, and you don't have to worry about messing it up
the mini suspension is so fun to work on, and you don't have to worry about messing it up
no dyno crank power plant, no body panels and doors that fly off when it crashes, your guy can't even do handstands on windshield header.
it's like domino's, 40 mins of set up for a 60 second run.
some of these guys got the film angles down pat.........nothin gets my goat more than watchin 3 mins of video b4 i figure out it's a toy.
but in the end if i had 1 i'd probably play with it, maybe chase the dogs around.
it's like domino's, 40 mins of set up for a 60 second run.
some of these guys got the film angles down pat.........nothin gets my goat more than watchin 3 mins of video b4 i figure out it's a toy.
but in the end if i had 1 i'd probably play with it, maybe chase the dogs around.
Yeah, Thanks a lot. I spent an hour on axial's website today looking at 10th and 24th scale versions...135 bucks or so for the 1:24th K10 RTR like @thekidwithquestions has though is REALLY tempting. It would be like anything else though...I'd play with it for a while, then get bored and it would sit.
I really should get a few of em and have my nephews, brother, and dad over for a competition...
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The only reason I have one is my wife asked for ideas and that was a fun idea I wouldn't likely buy myself that was within our budget for each other. But we may get one more for our son so we can wheel them together.
Similarly, I'm sure it'll see less and less use like many toys.
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I've never seen that before but it looks sweet! Might be fun to play around in the evenings, unless we are all repairing stuff
I’ll try to toss it in. It’s a monster though.I've never seen that before but it looks sweet! Might be fun to play around in the evenings, unless we are all repairing stuff
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A few months ago I picked up some 11" Fox Remote Reservoir shocks for my front end. I finally got around to getting them on, which is a massive project. @jjvw was a huge help.
First you need to measure your ride height, we later cut blocks out to make this easy. From there you can yank the springs and old shocks.
We pulled the bumper to have a good flat space to put a support bar for some laser levels to help as a consistent reference. to make that work we also leveled the Jeep left to right and fairly close front to back.
You'll notice the lasers intermittently in the following pictures, that's just because they have an auto shutoff timer.
Now it's time to cut off the things we don't need, the old shock tower and the lower mount. There's no picture of the lower cut off which is pretty much just the lower area, but here you can see where we tacked in the lower.
That lower mount is pretty even with the CA mount, and butts up against it. To make that work we also trimmed off the indexing guide on the control arm mount. If you've seen the poly lowers before you'll notice they needed to be trimmed to fit nicely against the C and CA mount.
We did the lower like that to have a good contact area and because you'll dial in the height with the tower.
From there we cut some wood blocks that sit between the spring perch and jaunce mount while we determined roughly where the tower ought to be, which takes a bit of time since you're working in a number of dimensions: vertical, tilt forward/backward, lateral tilt, and spin.
Josh picked up a nitrogen tank and setup, so we were able to drain the shocks to use. However it would be trivial to get some allthread and heim joints to make a stand in alternative.
I'm going to gloss over a whole bunch because I didn't take pictures for it, however the short is that the tower needs to be cut to roughly fit. You pretty much leave the sides of the towers long and trim the back of it to sit in the frame rail as best you can.
Tack em in and adjust as you cycle your axle. We got it nearly perfect the first go and most my adjustments were in the control arms and some axle trimming.
You may notice that the front leg of the tower is bent back a bit to open back up the space for the spring.
Once that's all set and you burn it in there's a good bit of finishing work to do.
I boxed in the lowers and made a little swooping piece to tie the tower back into the spring mount.
From there it's all just getting the rig back together and mounting the reservoirs. I made these ugly little brackets for that.
After settling the suspension I measure 5.5" of shaft showing at ride height, splitting the travel 50/50.