Highlucks
Try to Bend it
That would depend on how he has his links set up and the amount of clocking applied to the rear axle.
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Prophet's Bully 2
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I haven't got the rear clocked too far i don't think. just enough to keep the motor tucked out of the way. But to answer your question on the motor hanging down below the links when articulating, i hope these photos can give you a bit of insight.
crawlinghulls
Rock Crawler
Thanks for the pics! Those links look like they work great with the bully2's. Love the stance. On my sudu I run a short rod end at front of the rear link and a long rod end at the rear axle to keep the rear motor clear of the links and to bring me right to 12.45wb
No worries mate. I think the links will work out ok. ;-)
Question on wheel base though. I've got mine sitting on 315mm now, centre of axle shaft to centre of axle shaft. But it still looks really short to me. Compared to all the photos and vids i've been looking at and watching. But according to the CANZ rules i've been adhering to the max is 317mm. Is it just my eyesight, funky camera angles and what not, or is there something i'm missing here? Just i have seen a number of rigs that would appear to have the wheels a lot further apart.
crawlinghulls
Rock Crawler
Got it all soldered up last night. NO real drama's at all during that process, except for one thing.
I kinda got hold of another set of axles (Just waiting on there arrival) so i was thinking that i would gift this rig to my son, and build up the other set for me. So when i went to calibrate with his Rx.......nothing. Would not respond.
For informational purposes, it's a Futaba 4PL With R304SB. And the Br-mini's would not except either forwards or reverse throttle from the controller when trying to calibrate. I'm not sure of why this would happen? The receiver was a clean fresh bind to the controller. If anyone has any suggestions as to why it wouldn't calibrate?
So with that the only problem, i tried my Spectrum and bang. Done in 5 Secs.
Got it out on the rocks around the property this morning for a bit of an initial test. It's not too bad, a few more tweaks and should be good to go.
(I realise the battery is huge. A; it's one of two that i have right now, B; it was charged. "thumbsup" will be getting some smaller ones in the near future.)
I decided to keep the body panels clear, and just a couple of stickers on them. To me it's a cleaner look.
It's still a little messy in there, but until i can figure out how to bind the futaba to this rig i won't be cleaning it up.
I'll have some vid of the test run up at some stage soon. Test run was cut short by something going wrong with the steering. Either i've stripped out the servo horn, or there's nothing left of the splines on the servo output. Either way she don't steer none too good at the moment. :roll:
I kinda got hold of another set of axles (Just waiting on there arrival) so i was thinking that i would gift this rig to my son, and build up the other set for me. So when i went to calibrate with his Rx.......nothing. Would not respond.
For informational purposes, it's a Futaba 4PL With R304SB. And the Br-mini's would not except either forwards or reverse throttle from the controller when trying to calibrate. I'm not sure of why this would happen? The receiver was a clean fresh bind to the controller. If anyone has any suggestions as to why it wouldn't calibrate?
So with that the only problem, i tried my Spectrum and bang. Done in 5 Secs.
Got it out on the rocks around the property this morning for a bit of an initial test. It's not too bad, a few more tweaks and should be good to go.
(I realise the battery is huge. A; it's one of two that i have right now, B; it was charged. "thumbsup" will be getting some smaller ones in the near future.)
I decided to keep the body panels clear, and just a couple of stickers on them. To me it's a cleaner look.
It's still a little messy in there, but until i can figure out how to bind the futaba to this rig i won't be cleaning it up.
I'll have some vid of the test run up at some stage soon. Test run was cut short by something going wrong with the steering. Either i've stripped out the servo horn, or there's nothing left of the splines on the servo output. Either way she don't steer none too good at the moment. :roll:
LAY80N
Pebble Pounder
Have you reversed the Throttle channel on the TX? Usually to calibrate a Holmes or Castle ESC you will need to have the throttle channel reversed.
One thing i had not done. :roll:
The futaba to me is a new controller. Never used one before, (been using my DX4R for a couple years now). THe 4PL i bought for the kid to replace his stock axial. Haven't had to program anything on it yet till now so still reading the manual and learning. The throttle reverse is something that i found out this afternoon reading through the 4PL tips and tricks thread. I should have a chance to try this out it the next day or so. "thumbsup"
as an after thought though, he was running a BR-XL prior to re-doing his rig and that calibrated fine with the 4PL. Interesting. we'll give it a go and see what happens!
Cracked into the loss of steering issue this eve. Glad to see it was a $10 part not a "new servo required" $$$$$$ part.
Raided the spare parts and found i still had a few more spare horns. Bonus. No postage times and back on track! "thumbsup""thumbsup"
*and yes i do feel like an idiot for not noticing that between switching from the HH servo originaly to the Savox, and then to the Hi-tech that i didn't change from a 25 to a 24 tooth horn.
Made my own F-up there!*
Raided the spare parts and found i still had a few more spare horns. Bonus. No postage times and back on track! "thumbsup""thumbsup"
*and yes i do feel like an idiot for not noticing that between switching from the HH servo originaly to the Savox, and then to the Hi-tech that i didn't change from a 25 to a 24 tooth horn.
Made my own F-up there!*
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crawlinghulls
Rock Crawler
Something we've all probably done. Glad you had a spare"thumbsup"
Cracked into the loss of steering issue this eve. Glad to see it was a $10 part not a "new servo required" $$$$$$ part.
Raided the spare parts and found i still had a few more spare horns. Bonus. No postage times and back on track! "thumbsup""thumbsup"
*and yes i do feel like an idiot for not noticing that between switching from the HH servo originaly to the Savox, and then to the Hi-tech that i didn't change from a 25 to a 24 tooth horn.
So i got the ESC smash done. Not the prettiest thing, but first time i've worked with the mini stuff, so next one will be better. I reversed the throttle channel on the futaba and it calibrated. So all in all, all bugs/kinks have been fixed or dealt with and this rig is pretty much finished. "thumbsup"
Just a few shots of the last bits and pieces done to it:
I ended up making a basic electronics try off the front axle. About all that fits on it is the Receiver.
I think it turned out pretty neat and clean looking in the end. Certainly building this has given me a few idea's about the next one! "thumbsup"
and some delrin blocks added to keep the chassis to Comp spec.
So other than a little bit of tuning and a whole lot of driving. That's about it for this rig. I think it may need just a little bit more weight on the knuckles but for now it's reasonable.
The little fella is pretty darn happy with it. It beats the hell out of his old bully V1. "thumbsup" So this rig now belongs to my 5 year old.
As for me, well i'm still rig-less at the moment.........but not for long. With a few parts already on the way i'll be building my comp rig soon.........in a different section.8)
Just a few shots of the last bits and pieces done to it:
I ended up making a basic electronics try off the front axle. About all that fits on it is the Receiver.
I think it turned out pretty neat and clean looking in the end. Certainly building this has given me a few idea's about the next one! "thumbsup"
and some delrin blocks added to keep the chassis to Comp spec.
So other than a little bit of tuning and a whole lot of driving. That's about it for this rig. I think it may need just a little bit more weight on the knuckles but for now it's reasonable.
The little fella is pretty darn happy with it. It beats the hell out of his old bully V1. "thumbsup" So this rig now belongs to my 5 year old.
As for me, well i'm still rig-less at the moment.........but not for long. With a few parts already on the way i'll be building my comp rig soon.........in a different section.8)
