Thank you for the pics. Good use of scrap foam!
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Jato's Bumpy Road to Fordyce
- Thread starter JatoTheRipper
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Thank you for the pics. Good use of scrap foam!
svt923
I wanna be Dave
I made my own battery mount to drop it lower. This truck is never going to run dig so the tray doesn’t need to be lifted up to clear the linkage.
It is a couple printed brackets that mount in the top upper link holes and a plate to mount on top. I’m sure a printed plate would have been fine but I had one cut from carbon fiber from SendCutSend. It was pretty cheap and carbon fiber is cool.
It is a couple printed brackets that mount in the top upper link holes and a plate to mount on top. I’m sure a printed plate would have been fine but I had one cut from carbon fiber from SendCutSend. It was pretty cheap and carbon fiber is cool.
That’s sweet. I love carbon fiber. Where did oh get those black standoffs?
svt923
I wanna be Dave
Either Amazon or ebay. I'm pretty sure they are drone parts.
Last night I got the ESC stuck down. Then I realized that my wire spaghetti was likely to get chewed up by the spur gear since I am using Harley’s LS swap instead of the spur cover.
Over to my laptop I go, fired up Fusion 360 and designed a top-half spur gear cover. It immediately went onto my 3D printer.
As you can see, my estimate of the center of the circle is a bit off. No big deal. I will design Revision 2 next time I’m home. I wanted to add a wire management tab to the top of this cover and forgot, so another revision was going to come anyway.
I tried using the Castle B-Link. The app said it needed an update, but this wasn’t working so I’d have to contact Castle support. I emailed them this morning. Ok I need an update, but that shouldn’t basically brick a device. My B-Link is nonfunctional right now.
Over to my laptop I go, fired up Fusion 360 and designed a top-half spur gear cover. It immediately went onto my 3D printer.
As you can see, my estimate of the center of the circle is a bit off. No big deal. I will design Revision 2 next time I’m home. I wanted to add a wire management tab to the top of this cover and forgot, so another revision was going to come anyway.
I tried using the Castle B-Link. The app said it needed an update, but this wasn’t working so I’d have to contact Castle support. I emailed them this morning. Ok I need an update, but that shouldn’t basically brick a device. My B-Link is nonfunctional right now.
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Last night I installed the final revision of my cross-mounted battery tray. It gets rid of the weight from the unnecessarily overcomplicated and needlessly heavy stock battery tray and lowers the battery a significant amount. It also has the ability to hold any of the batteries I would use out on the trail.
It's a great stick pack LiPo designed for older Tamiya models. I wish HobbyKing would still sell it. It is fairly light and low profile which also worked well for trail trucks. Stick pack LiPo batteries are getting hard to find and they are expensive now.
Last night I installed the final revision of my cross-mounted battery tray. It gets rid of the weight from the unnecessarily overcomplicated and needlessly heavy stock battery tray and lowers the battery a significant amount. It also has the ability to hold any of the batteries I would use out on the trail.
Damn, that tray is pretty much what I'm after. Just going through a vs4-10, should really get a printer but I won't lol Goes to think how I can make something similar up with whatever I got lying around, hmmm.
Good looking tray Jato
Thank you. You can also have a buddy, local or online, print it for you.Damn, that tray is pretty much what I'm after. Just going through a vs4-10, should really get a printer but I won't lol Goes to think how I can make something similar up with whatever I got lying around, hmmm.
Good looking tray Jato
Instead of going with the 21% OD gears in the transmission, I think I'm going to try overdriving the front axle because I already have underdrive in the rear. That, alone, isn't cutting it. I want more OD on this truck. So that means SCX10 II overdrive gears for the front.
Have any of you specifically tried the Meus brand? They are much cheaper than the rest. They have the standard 8T/27T which I'm leaning towards for a front overdrive of 11%.
www.meusracing.com
Have any of you specifically tried the Meus brand? They are much cheaper than the rest. They have the standard 8T/27T which I'm leaning towards for a front overdrive of 11%.
MEUS Racing Overdrive Underdrive Steel Helical Diff Axle Gears For 1/1
MEUS Racing Overdrive Underdrive Steel Helical Diff Axle Gears For SCX10 II SCX10 III SCX10 Pro AR44, AR45 Axles. RC car gear is made of superior stainless steel material, hardened steel for added strength, which has high accuracy and is durable.
www.meusracing.com
I haven’t tried that brand, but at that price it’s not much of a risk imo…
It's a gamble when you don't have a job!
