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Natedog's Vaterra ASCENDER

Ernie,
Yes, she is had that ready to cook up as soon as I got changed out of riding gear! Done, she say's hi to and thanks to Marcia for the nice letter. :)

YotaDUMP,
Nice setup. Thanks, we need 'em hope it all holds out too.

Thanks!
Nate
 
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PICS!

Attended MRB Fire and Ice near Reno, Nevada last weekend, they had three courses laid out with about 180 gates each. There was easy, medium and difficult (guaranteed winching) we started on medium and saved difficult for last.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/competitions/576952-team-mrb-fire-ice-4-lost-trails.html


Little snowing.




Drive was about 7 hours crazy due to chain checkpoints.




Starting intermediate course, Rockhugger's building a scaler Ascender Blazer, but despite a week of late nights including hotel room wrenching it wasn't ready, so he drove my Blazer and I drove my K10 with WB3.








Around gate 29 I twisted the ball end off of the left CVD and did an on-course repair. This was on 2S with stock 35T motor, we now have stronger CVDs from Vaterra, thanks! Back on course after repair, pic to come of the broken CVD.




Sidehill with lots of loose scree and dirt, then a hard rocky, silty covered climb and rock squeeze.

 
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The easy course.








Gate 25 into the difficult course.








Really cool house made out of old train car, exterior entryway windbreak walls made with cinder block and some old glass window doors. Did I mention how cold and relentlessly windy it was this weekend?



 
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Hey Nate, it's time to give the uni upgrade a try! Wish I could have made the trip, maybe next time. May be we will make it down sometime this summer, if you guys aren't washed away! "thumbsup"
Ernie
 
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Ernie, might have to do the universal axle mod. Would have been nice, we should be here this summer, but other valley areas might wash away. You're always welcome here!

Fyrstormer, might be. :)
 
That link takes me to a traxxas thread?


Sent from my phone because mail is so 1990
 
Which link? I just checked Fire and Ice link and Codyboy's bulldog bronco ascender links and they work for me.
 
Might be, I've never liked or installed most apps because they are usually unnecessary, I've got a smartphone with a web browser. :mrgreen: Try clearing phone/tablet browser cache, close out browser afterwards, re-open and try the link. :)
 
Crawled Sunday at Moonrocks too, group of guys from Mountain Roo came by in their Subarus four-wheeling and hill climbing, some really nicely setup cars! They stopped and chatted a bit, said they were Subaru Brand Ambassadors (Nick driving and forget his buddy's name sorry), before they left gave us each a sweet Subaru coffee mug with matching orange coaster! Thanks guys! Guy in the brand new blue CrossTrek ripped a big piece of plastic aerodynamic under panel off on the steep down and back up through the wash below us, stopped, threw it in the hatchback and kept on wheeling.

http://www.mtnroo.com/







 
More free crawl and trail riding.






My left front broken CVD, after I cleaned all the grease off.




Not sure which of these two pics I like better, what do you like?







Reflections




Getting late, colder and windier




Really started snowing on the way home and worried that they might close the pass.

 
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Ernie, thanks for the pics of your brass axle tube weights and SCX10.2 SSD c-hubs, knuckles and Axial universals, looks great!

Rockhugger, yes it was!

I just received couple sets of spare Vaterra CVDs for spares and they are bigger at the neck down where they've been twisting off!
Front CV Shaft Set: ASN (VTR232076)
http://www.horizonhobby.com/front-cv-shaft-set:-asn-vtr232076

The newer sets are noticeably thicker, so I measured them with calipers, original CVDs are 0.157", new are 0.195" at the neck down just before the ball end joint, woohoo beefier CVDs! I dont' know if they are as strong as Axial Universals yet, but they look stronger and are thicker, also in the pics you'll see that the stub axle bell area has more taper and thinner at the edge to maintain almost same steering angle with the thicker inner axle. Stub axle bell still looks like good amount of steel around the cross pin holes. Going to install some spare Gunnar Pins and see how they do! 8) "thumbsup"
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axles-trannys-t-case/432975-gunnar-cvd-axle-pins.html

Edit: Pics added, the CVD with the silver metal ring on it is the old style, without is the new style!





 
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