i have some updates and some pictures
and even a little bit of "fabrication".
I attempted to put together an ax trans from the parts robbob sent me awhile ago and stuff troy gave me a few days ago. I found out i am atleast 1 output shaft away from a working AX trans. I decided to just put the case together with the spurt shaft and see how it would fit. I placed it in (what i assume is) the correct way with the spur shaft facing the front and the threaded part was laying over the brace like so.
So flipped it around the other way with the shaft pointing to the rear and just sat it where it would be if i flipped the skid around
at this point i was thinking maybe my skid was backwards and looked up some build threads, i looked at tapped-out and saw his spur was to the front but was using a wraith transmission. This brings me to my first question, is the answer here to get a wraith shaft (will it fit in the AX case?) or shim up the transmission for clearance? I plan on getting a 1 peice output just for future proofing, will i need extended outputs since the rear wraith output is longer?
now to stuff that makes me feel happy/proud.
When troy dropped off my goody bag it had a metal tie rod, awesome! All i needed was a drag link to go with my bitchen servo
At first i thought i was just going to have to wait, but then i remembered what looked like delrin tube in with the trans parts and i have tons of rod ends laying around now so my brain started moving. I know making a tie rod isnt a big deal to pretty much anybody but its the first thing i have installed that wasnt just out of the package and ready to go. I mest with a couple different rod ends and ended up using the wraith link ends and cut a small peice of plastic to make a spacer to seperate the tie rod and drag link.
i know its not a big deal to most but it made me feel good and i hope i can eventually get more resources/ideas to do more things.
thanks for sticking with me with this, i know i ask alot of dumb questions but usually i am close to the right answer from looking around and just want to be certain i am correct.