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Pebble Pounder
So I first I must say how much of a pleasure Ernie (Codyboy) is to do business with. What a huge help with all my questions about his axles and getting me a custom set I needed for this build.
Onto the story. I stumbled into this forum out of boredom. I had just finished a tf2 build. I have been a leaf spring guy from the beginning. But then I saw some Codyboy steering and fell in love. I will be honest, I hate scx10 based builds. HATE. I do not like cheap lexan bodies like the deadbolt body. They drive me nuts scale wise. So an xr mod was always out of the question and a scx10ii was never even a thought with the backwards attempt at a trans setup. Anyways, I scored a 2 good deals locally. A slider ripped apart in a box and a new rtr slider. I built the box one and sold it to get my money back and decided I was gonna build the other as a class 2.
Then I found out you could narrow ascender axles easily and was completely sold. Parted the tf2.
Bye. [emoji22] (local guys k10)
I like a scale hardbody with interior. So originally I bought GCM forward motor mount and had Circle City RC print me a custom flat skid. Assembled the kit and immediately knew this wasn't gonna work. The motor is so high and it hit the interior of my tf2 body. So I sold it all. But I would recommend Circle City skids to anyone. Link risers built in. Smooth also. Fast turnaround.
By this time I had already purchased a front axle from Ernie. But decided I wanted to narrow it. This is customer service at its finest. He let me ship the housing back and he got me one narrowed 4mm on each side without costing me anything extra. To narrow 8mm I did have to cut some off the universals so they don't touch in the middle. But there is more than enough left where they won't spin off. Sorry for the lack of pics here.
I knew I wanted to use these axles so I almost bought a GCM cmax chassis but didn't wanna drop another $200 into it I decided to make the ascender chassis work with the Rc4wd r4 trans I had from my tf2 part. The mount is the Rc4wd motor mount. I cut about 2mm off each side and it fits right in the frame rails. I originally mounted in the back shock tower holes but the front upper link mount would hit my motor. So I slid it back a couple mm to just clear.
The silver bolt is the trans mount.
I tried to keep the double servo mount for a winch but I couldn't get it to fit with the motor so swb servo it was.
My lower link mounts are now on the frame rails close to where the skit mounted them on the 290 wb. Since I'm running a 11.3 body and the motor limited what links I could run I found this to be best. My lower links are 68mm. This puts the shock almost touching the panhard mount at full compression.
I had to use an strc aluminum front mount trimmed to clear the motor.
The rest was just lining up everything to make sure it clears.
I had to use this driveshaft to clear the trans during compression. It's a scx10 shaft. I put the vanquish adapters in my axles.
The rear will be leaf spring. Ernie is building my a rear axle right now for a custom leaf set up. I'll take more pics when that comes.
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Onto the story. I stumbled into this forum out of boredom. I had just finished a tf2 build. I have been a leaf spring guy from the beginning. But then I saw some Codyboy steering and fell in love. I will be honest, I hate scx10 based builds. HATE. I do not like cheap lexan bodies like the deadbolt body. They drive me nuts scale wise. So an xr mod was always out of the question and a scx10ii was never even a thought with the backwards attempt at a trans setup. Anyways, I scored a 2 good deals locally. A slider ripped apart in a box and a new rtr slider. I built the box one and sold it to get my money back and decided I was gonna build the other as a class 2.
Then I found out you could narrow ascender axles easily and was completely sold. Parted the tf2.
Bye. [emoji22] (local guys k10)
I like a scale hardbody with interior. So originally I bought GCM forward motor mount and had Circle City RC print me a custom flat skid. Assembled the kit and immediately knew this wasn't gonna work. The motor is so high and it hit the interior of my tf2 body. So I sold it all. But I would recommend Circle City skids to anyone. Link risers built in. Smooth also. Fast turnaround.
By this time I had already purchased a front axle from Ernie. But decided I wanted to narrow it. This is customer service at its finest. He let me ship the housing back and he got me one narrowed 4mm on each side without costing me anything extra. To narrow 8mm I did have to cut some off the universals so they don't touch in the middle. But there is more than enough left where they won't spin off. Sorry for the lack of pics here.
I knew I wanted to use these axles so I almost bought a GCM cmax chassis but didn't wanna drop another $200 into it I decided to make the ascender chassis work with the Rc4wd r4 trans I had from my tf2 part. The mount is the Rc4wd motor mount. I cut about 2mm off each side and it fits right in the frame rails. I originally mounted in the back shock tower holes but the front upper link mount would hit my motor. So I slid it back a couple mm to just clear.
The silver bolt is the trans mount.
I tried to keep the double servo mount for a winch but I couldn't get it to fit with the motor so swb servo it was.
My lower link mounts are now on the frame rails close to where the skit mounted them on the 290 wb. Since I'm running a 11.3 body and the motor limited what links I could run I found this to be best. My lower links are 68mm. This puts the shock almost touching the panhard mount at full compression.
I had to use an strc aluminum front mount trimmed to clear the motor.
The rest was just lining up everything to make sure it clears.
I had to use this driveshaft to clear the trans during compression. It's a scx10 shaft. I put the vanquish adapters in my axles.
The rear will be leaf spring. Ernie is building my a rear axle right now for a custom leaf set up. I'll take more pics when that comes.
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