Dna's Ultra 4 Bronco Buster

[djjiz]

Try the short ends before scrapping the idea. Have't broke one of those yet.

Are these breaking on the axle or chassis side?

 

[dna4engr]

Try the short ends before scrapping the idea. Have't broke one of those yet.

Are these breaking on the axle or chassis side?

I went with the long ones to gain a little extra wheel base. Each link on the front has one long and one short. The broken one in the pic is on the axle side. I'm going to try an bend the link some more to get less angle on the rod end. Also switch the short one to the axle side.

Dna

 

[djjiz]

Mine was doing the same with straight links. Hit something hard enough and it snapped on the axle side.

Haven't broke a short since I made new links. Might be a coincidence though.

 

[hotwheels000]

Are you using 3mm or 4mm links ? If 3mm upgrade to jato/revo 4mm ends and thread the link all the way into the link end. It will mean making new links but you will be much stronger.

 

[itr1994]

try putting the longer ones on the skid side that will probably help you to have less breakage

 

[dna4engr]

Mine was doing the same with straight links. Hit something hard enough and it snapped on the axle side.

Haven't broke a short since I made new links. Might be a coincidence though.

This thing is pretty heavy so it'll be a learning experience to get it right.

Are you using 3mm or 4mm links ? If 3mm upgrade to jato/revo 4mm ends and thread the link all the way into the link end. It will mean making new links but you will be much stronger.

I'm using 3/16 vanquish titanium links so it's the 4mm rod ends. I had broken a revo 4mm rod end, hence why the upgrade to rpm and went to jato length to increase the wheelbase. The downside of these longer jato 4mm ones is that even with them threaded in all the way the extra plastic can still bend and in my case it broke.

Like I said I'm going to flip the long ones to the skid and the shorts to the axle and see what happens.

Thanks for the feedback fellas!

 

[dna4engr]

I jumbled around a bunch of links and got a combination that's working better. Tell you what. These rpm rod ends sure are brittle. I've cracked several right along the parting line.

Then the rear dlux truss broke dang it. Went to a stock wraith truss and had to switch more links around. Was able to get rid of the jato length rod ends.

I thought I had photos of everything but they aren't showing up now.

Dna


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[djjiz]

Rpm needs to stay out of the rod end game or take some constructive criticism.

*hint hint

 

[Szczerba]

Somehow I missed this build. Lots of cool parts and work going on in here!

 

[Nova's Ark]

Great build thread.
This chassis ended up in the Crawler Innovations Shop for several months and never got rebuilt. It was traded to a local recently and it will be nice to see it running again soon.


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[Nalleywhacker]

It's living in the mountains of East Tennessee now.