Don't say BOM on an airplane.

[Nogman]

I've always like the look of the bom. So when one came up for sale on the forums here I grabbed it. It came as a pretty stock roller, so I threw in a Amazon servo, hw 1080, and a crawlmaster 540 (forgot the turn count, and the motor sleeves gone). Also added the scx10ii style aluminum front shock mounts and servo mount, metal servo horn, and some brass knuckles with the add on weights.

Looking at the truck I felt like it needed some prerunner influences (not just some white fenders) and after trying both the rear suspension setups and not being very happy with either (cantilever was so sloppy it never even made it off the workbench before I removed it)

So I made some trailing arms out of 20ga steel and square stock. Used the rear 10ii shock hoops pushed up towards the cab wall and some really long, and really crappy shocks. It flexed better, but was a bit sloppy.

I added a simple front skid plate and ran it for about a year (rear shocks got swapped to some different crappy shocks, and added a piano wire sway bar out back at some point).

Added some leds and a generic injora interior tub along the way.

Really like the way this chassis performs. A few pics from one of my favorite crawl spots.

 

[Nogman]

After running the truck for a while I decided to get it back on the bench for a revamp and some fine tuning.
I removed the white decals from the sides, made some boat sides, painted the chrome parts black and sprayed the front skid plate.

Made some styrene inner fenders and swapped the front shocks out for a pair of wraith shocks, with redcat gen8 springs and a helper spring setup I made out of another gen8 spring.

Front shocks got moved to the rear with a set of random springs I trimmed down and another set up gen8 springs cut into helpers. Moved the lower mounts into the forward hole, feels a lot less floppy with the shorter shocks and stiff main springs.

I always felt the trucks that people added a rear panel to looked more complete (it's got the holes already there) So I decided to use my new brazing setup to make a panel with a simple little kicked up bumper. Used 20ga steel sheet and 1/8" round bar.

While I had the Torch out I decided to add a couple bars to the spare tire nut. Covered them with some heat shrink and threw it back on.

Added some wipers that I had laying around.

Hoping to get some run time with it and see how it drives. Thanks for looking