Sons New Super Clodbuster

[ontrack2]

Just thought I would share a few pictures of my kids new Clod. Its his truck so while I went halves in the buying the kit and radio, he wants to save up for mods so we are seeing what we can do without spending a great deal of cash.

We have had it a week and so far we (we I have lol) have :

Narrowed the rims
locked the diffs
Shaved the diff's
changed the shock mounts
re-wired the motors
Removed the steering stops

This weekend we are hoping to change the pinions (8T ok with stock motors?) and get another servo and y-cable so we can change the steering setup (if anyone has a good pick of how the servo mounts it woudl be appreciated as we got to make the brackets) and for bling .. give the body a coat of satin clear coat and paint the wheels black as well

 

[ontrack2]

Ohh I forgot his list of upgrades for down the track..

4-link suspension
New shocks
New Motors
Build our own chassis

 

[elvis]

Nice work on the suspension. I like the stock look and the shocking (no pun intended) Amount of travel you got. I made a servo plate to axle mount the servos while keeping the stock links and such. I'd post pics but I can't here.

 

[ontrack2]

Well I cant help myself..popped into the local hobbie store and got..

A length of Carbon Tube and a similar lenth of threaded rod, and some metal rod-end's. Time to make some links

A electronic speed controller (he did not have the money to get one originally)

2 cheap motors - ansmann racing Clash28 ($20.00 from the specials bin)

 

[jagg]

Well I cant help myself..popped into the local hobbie store and got..

Looks great so far, just remember to let the little guy help with some mods too :lol:.

 

[kirshbom]

Heck with that, buy another one so both can get the true hands on experience. Twice as much fun to be had!"thumbsup"

 

[ontrack2]

my little mate has decided i am the pit crew and he is the driver lol

He has been helping out big time though and he made the links for the steering..which are pretty cool..1/4 steel rod, sheathed in Carbon tube.

and well..problem is i got the bug now..so i think once we got the clod sorted we will make a tube crawler.

I was going to buy a chassis but i would really like to make one..probably going to make it a semi-scale cralwer based on a friends 4x4..

This is the inspiration for what we will make..

with Bodywork

without bodywork

Out Playing

so shopping list for this is so far:

Portal's with Heavy Duty Gears (the real thing has Unimog portals so hey why not )
D40 (or T-Rex 60) Axles
R2 Disconnect
4WS (set up to crab steer)
Dual Spring Scale Shocks
truescale 2.2 beadlocks
rockcrusher 2.2 X/T tyres
55T Lathe Motor

we just got to work out how to hide it all from the wife

 

[ontrack2]

before I forget..

These are the links he made along with the servo mounted on the front axle.

 

[dleigh007]

That's a nice looking Clod!!! How did you narrow the wheels? I want to do this to my mostly stock Clod. Thanks,"thumbsup"