Hello there
I guess I should start off with I am horrible at completing projects... I am much better at hoarding them. But anyways...
I have been messing around with my trail trekker a bit, many years back I had purchased a leaf spring chassis kit for it and a Chevy C10 model.
I had planned to put them together but ran into several problems. The options tire wise was either too small (the Losi Desert Truck Wheels) or far too big (the stock Trekker tires), the chassis kit is a bit flaky and the springs are too loose, I was not looking forward to extending the driveshaft with metal tubing, and I am somewhat bad at putting a decent finish on plastic models... But primarily, I missed driving the Trail Trekker around while I was building it so I went and reassembled the trekker and have driven it on and off for may years now. It is a very reliable little thing.
Well, as I stated somewhat in my vague Mini Crawler thread, I have become smitten by trail trucks as of late and along with the TRX-4 I have on order, I have decided to actually make the tiny scale truck I had planned to make. Although I may end up swapping the Trekker parts for HSP/ECX/Redcat/etc.. micro crawler parts and also have the Trekker built, We will see.
The driveshaft actually turned out to be much easier fix then I had planned after seeing some new trucks for the first time. I ended up cutting the splined section off of the old rear driveshaft, super glued a shock o-ring in the middle of it, and then used two female ends on the driveshaft... driveshaft problem handled!
As for the wheels, I am still not happy at all with either the stock Trekker or the modded Desert Truck wheels. I want to find some that are somewhat in the middle of those sizes but the smaller ones will likely have to work for now. Also.. if you spin the Desert truck wheels up to full speed on a dremel by accident instead of pushing the slider to off... the tires fall off intact :roll: Oops!
I need to make some track rods for the axles as the light leafs allow them to wrap all over the place, not good.
I should be able to keep the interior of the model almost completely intact, minus a small amount of clearancing for the motor. At this point the plan is to have a micro servo on the front axle, the esc stowed under the hood and probably fab up a bed box out of 1/24 diamond plate to hide the battery in. That is if I use the bed...
If I decide to go with the stock sized tires I may just ditch the bed all together and fab up a miniature version of the Vaterra K10 rear frame and just turn it into a Micro Ascender clone... ? Who knows, it will turn into what it turns into.
Chris
I guess I should start off with I am horrible at completing projects... I am much better at hoarding them. But anyways...
I have been messing around with my trail trekker a bit, many years back I had purchased a leaf spring chassis kit for it and a Chevy C10 model.
I had planned to put them together but ran into several problems. The options tire wise was either too small (the Losi Desert Truck Wheels) or far too big (the stock Trekker tires), the chassis kit is a bit flaky and the springs are too loose, I was not looking forward to extending the driveshaft with metal tubing, and I am somewhat bad at putting a decent finish on plastic models... But primarily, I missed driving the Trail Trekker around while I was building it so I went and reassembled the trekker and have driven it on and off for may years now. It is a very reliable little thing.
Well, as I stated somewhat in my vague Mini Crawler thread, I have become smitten by trail trucks as of late and along with the TRX-4 I have on order, I have decided to actually make the tiny scale truck I had planned to make. Although I may end up swapping the Trekker parts for HSP/ECX/Redcat/etc.. micro crawler parts and also have the Trekker built, We will see.
The driveshaft actually turned out to be much easier fix then I had planned after seeing some new trucks for the first time. I ended up cutting the splined section off of the old rear driveshaft, super glued a shock o-ring in the middle of it, and then used two female ends on the driveshaft... driveshaft problem handled!
As for the wheels, I am still not happy at all with either the stock Trekker or the modded Desert Truck wheels. I want to find some that are somewhat in the middle of those sizes but the smaller ones will likely have to work for now. Also.. if you spin the Desert truck wheels up to full speed on a dremel by accident instead of pushing the slider to off... the tires fall off intact :roll: Oops!
I need to make some track rods for the axles as the light leafs allow them to wrap all over the place, not good.
I should be able to keep the interior of the model almost completely intact, minus a small amount of clearancing for the motor. At this point the plan is to have a micro servo on the front axle, the esc stowed under the hood and probably fab up a bed box out of 1/24 diamond plate to hide the battery in. That is if I use the bed...
If I decide to go with the stock sized tires I may just ditch the bed all together and fab up a miniature version of the Vaterra K10 rear frame and just turn it into a Micro Ascender clone... ? Who knows, it will turn into what it turns into.
Chris
