AnimalHippie
RCC Addict
A little update for you guys. The cage is working out great! Really think the extra weight helped my rig. So far it's had a few good tumbles down the rocks and the cage is holding strong. Just some scraped paint. I picked up a couple sheets of styrine and made a tool box for the back.
Also took a piece of white string line and dyed it in coffee/grounds for a day. That worked out great and made the string the color of rope for a great scale accessory.
I picked up a set of GPM rear shock towers due to the stock Trx ones not fitting the look and I wanted to lean my shocks forward a bit. They went on with ease and definitely for the look I'm going for. Each tower only weighs 1gram more then the stock tower.
I also spent a little time installing some taillights. My DIY pen cap light buckets and lenses.
I also reattached my rear rock lights in their new location. Under the battery tray and out of harm's way.
Went for a fun run with a buddy out on the Santos Tiny Truck Trail two Sundays ago. Was a great time! The trucks did great!
Leaning the rear shocks forward and outboarding them a few mm really made a difference.
A couple days later I was chilling in the garage and I noticed some of our Florida famous pete moss tangled up behind the rear wheel. So I removed the wheel and the hex to find this
I was quite unhappy about it, but what can you do. I asked around on here for some suggestions on replacements. A good friend pointed me to the SSD Trx-4 aluminum hexes. For $13 I picked them up on Amazon. Great buy for sure! It took 3 of the SSD hexes to match the weight of one stock hex. So far I like them. They went on nice and tight and the wheel seems to not have as much play with them on it.
I'm currently waiting on a fuel cell, axe and shovel that my buddy is 3d printing for me. I'm also planning on buying and installing a Axial EXO buggy rear radiator on the cage. Not sure what else I plan to do to it yet. I know I'd like to get OD gears, a high clearance trans skid and maybe build some high clearance links. One day I'll get it "finished" LMAO! Thanks for checking it out. Next update will be some pics from crawling in North Carolina on our Christmas vacation to Asheville. We leave in 4 days!!! Super Stoked!!!! 8) "thumbsup"
Also took a piece of white string line and dyed it in coffee/grounds for a day. That worked out great and made the string the color of rope for a great scale accessory.
I picked up a set of GPM rear shock towers due to the stock Trx ones not fitting the look and I wanted to lean my shocks forward a bit. They went on with ease and definitely for the look I'm going for. Each tower only weighs 1gram more then the stock tower.
I also spent a little time installing some taillights. My DIY pen cap light buckets and lenses.
I also reattached my rear rock lights in their new location. Under the battery tray and out of harm's way.
Went for a fun run with a buddy out on the Santos Tiny Truck Trail two Sundays ago. Was a great time! The trucks did great!
Leaning the rear shocks forward and outboarding them a few mm really made a difference.
A couple days later I was chilling in the garage and I noticed some of our Florida famous pete moss tangled up behind the rear wheel. So I removed the wheel and the hex to find this
I was quite unhappy about it, but what can you do. I asked around on here for some suggestions on replacements. A good friend pointed me to the SSD Trx-4 aluminum hexes. For $13 I picked them up on Amazon. Great buy for sure! It took 3 of the SSD hexes to match the weight of one stock hex. So far I like them. They went on nice and tight and the wheel seems to not have as much play with them on it.
I'm currently waiting on a fuel cell, axe and shovel that my buddy is 3d printing for me. I'm also planning on buying and installing a Axial EXO buggy rear radiator on the cage. Not sure what else I plan to do to it yet. I know I'd like to get OD gears, a high clearance trans skid and maybe build some high clearance links. One day I'll get it "finished" LMAO! Thanks for checking it out. Next update will be some pics from crawling in North Carolina on our Christmas vacation to Asheville. We leave in 4 days!!! Super Stoked!!!! 8) "thumbsup"
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