Rockchuck's Class 2 - The bowtie build

[RockChuck]

Did some trailing today! It did awesome for a 9# beast!

 

[jim hall]

Sweet looking rig nice cage giving me ideas

 

[zombieghost]

Nice build

 

[RockChuck]

Put some time in on the cage. Added some anti squat per a group members suggestion and made some slider plates along with a tucked up skid plate.

That's almost full weight/ride height! 3.125"

Kinda tight to work on

Some uprights to change the anti squat

 

[RockChuck]

Also finally mounted my haas fairhead and switched over to my Locked Up RC blue winch rope. I put on some LURC front hubs/wheel nuts as well and they look awesome!

 

[RockChuck]

custom painted locked up rc pro scale hubs!

Celebrated with some crawl time!

 

[RockChuck]

So I haven't posted in a long while, been busy. I comped the truck a few times with the tube bed and the mickey t's! It did pretty well. Really good steering angle, and lots of powa!!!

 

[RockChuck]

Then i decided I wanted to go another route with the truck, I didn't like the front bumper overhang, the body was slow to remove, the A-pillars were weak and unprotected, the sliders were parallel to the ground, the battery box in the bed kept wanting to slide out, there wasn't enough weight in the back of the truck, I wanted bed sides, and a few other ideas I had. So I went to work.

I started by trimming the bottom of the cab

Then I cut the rear cage loose

I had hoped to re-use the main hoop and support bars, but they didn't work for what I wanted. So I bent a new main hoop and went to town on it.

Bent a second hoop to go across the windshield

Added some A-pillar protection and support bars

 

[RockChuck]

Then I started work on the exo. You don't see these trucks exo caged, so I had to be a bit creative on the design

Added on my bed sides, and started their exo work

Started the fender protection, not a single flat body panel on this truck, everything is curved, this makes quite a challenge.

Then I moved to the front bumper

 

[RockChuck]

I had wanted to make the body flip up with just 1 or 2 screws or pins, but I wasn't sure how I wanted to make it happen.

I made the frame plates for the front and rear cage mounts, but I wasn't sure how I was going to incorporate the boatsides and sliders into this equation. I managed to make some places for the main cage to rest on the sliders preventing them from bending up, made the front winch mount attached to the cage and 2 bolts into the cms mount. It worked pretty slick

 

[RockChuck]

Well its all painted and seen it's first comp. Placed 5th, but I finished it at 5 am the morning of the comp. New nickname is 10 Ton Tina. Lol

Only pic I have from running that the comp.

Tina and the Mad Bomber

 

[KMS]

I tried to send you a pm about your winch but RCC says our message box is full ,,Robert ,,

 

[RockChuck]

I tried to send you a pm about your winch but RCC says our message box is full ,,Robert ,,

Inbox cleared. Too many sent pms

 

[KMS]

Inbox cleared. Too many sent pms

Ok will be sending you a pm, , Thank you, Robert

 

[RockChuck]

Thank you for the customer support Robert! Much appreciated!

 

[RockChuck]

New KMS K2 free spool, LURC 250# test winch line, and HeyOk 4AMP winch controller! Next comp is in 2 weeks! Going to have a video on how to get more pulling power out of your K2 soon!

 

[RockChuck]

Re: 10 Ton Tina: RockChuck's C2 Build

All ready for the comp! Should get the results soon!

 

[79SCX10]

Very sweet truck! Love the cage work!

 

[RockChuck]

Very sweet truck! Love the cage work!

Thanks! Lots of work into both