I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else: I have looked everywhere and could not find anything, so I decided to post it here.
On my SCX10 III Gladiator (and I believe, on the SCX10 III in general) part AXI231009 attaches to the skid and offers 3 positions for the upper rear links. I am currently using the lower hole of that 'triangle', but I was wondering what other people were using. The user manual doesn't seem to mention anything about it.
I am thinking, given the stock links and how it's looking right now, the lower hole is granting me a pretty parallel pinion angle, which stays parallel over the whole length of the suspension travel.
I have set my rock racers this way, where the rear links basically end up being connected at the skid, their mounting points are at the same height, so to speak. But on my rock crawlers, I tend to experiment a bit more, especially with straight axles, because the anti-squat seems to give me a bit more push 'down' when in a crawl and this lands me, apparently, a bit more traction on both front and rear, as the car seems to want to 'splat' itself onto the rocky uphill surface.
I know there is no hurt in trying, I am kinda leaning to use the upper left corner in order to make my rear pinion look 'up' a bit. This should make the rear axle want to 'push' to the ground when rotating and could help in the same manner. The thing is that the Gladiator I have is on portals, so I am not sure portals are going to behave the same way as straight axles, with geometries like these. I know I can also turn the links to lengthen/shorten them a bit and work on driveshaft/pinion angles etc.
Thanks for chiming in and clarifying, I am far from being an expert, actually feel free to bash in case I wrote a bunch of nonsense![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
On my SCX10 III Gladiator (and I believe, on the SCX10 III in general) part AXI231009 attaches to the skid and offers 3 positions for the upper rear links. I am currently using the lower hole of that 'triangle', but I was wondering what other people were using. The user manual doesn't seem to mention anything about it.
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I am thinking, given the stock links and how it's looking right now, the lower hole is granting me a pretty parallel pinion angle, which stays parallel over the whole length of the suspension travel.
I have set my rock racers this way, where the rear links basically end up being connected at the skid, their mounting points are at the same height, so to speak. But on my rock crawlers, I tend to experiment a bit more, especially with straight axles, because the anti-squat seems to give me a bit more push 'down' when in a crawl and this lands me, apparently, a bit more traction on both front and rear, as the car seems to want to 'splat' itself onto the rocky uphill surface.
I know there is no hurt in trying, I am kinda leaning to use the upper left corner in order to make my rear pinion look 'up' a bit. This should make the rear axle want to 'push' to the ground when rotating and could help in the same manner. The thing is that the Gladiator I have is on portals, so I am not sure portals are going to behave the same way as straight axles, with geometries like these. I know I can also turn the links to lengthen/shorten them a bit and work on driveshaft/pinion angles etc.
Thanks for chiming in and clarifying, I am far from being an expert, actually feel free to bash in case I wrote a bunch of nonsense