BJoe
I wanna be Dave
After digging my Jimny out after discussing the ability to put the gear reduction hubs from the Monster Beetle TR and Dynahead to fit the MC-01x chassis and decided to start revising it and plan to eventually buy one of those Monster Beetle TR kits to kitbash it’s hubs from.
When I first built it, the truck put silly putty in the diffs and put a 55t closed end bell motor from my Night Crawler BND (put a Traxxas Titan 21t in that) with the smallest Tamiya pinion while using a XL-5 ESC, basic Traxxas 2.4 radio and Savox waterproof servo and Duratrax 3000mAh 7.2v pack.I also used Tamiya’s red anodized aluminum sedan shocks and eventually Associated brown buggy springs, then RC4wd’s 1.55” Landry’s and Mickey-T Baja MTZ tires that are a good bit taller than the 1.9” Rally Block tires on the wheels from the Golf GTI kit that these come with.
Problems I’ve run into is that when it comes to torque, that motor is gutless, especially when you factor in the NiMH pack, taller gearing via too big of a pinion and those big Mickey-T’s and had no holding capability of even the Integy 55t that is still in my crawler Wheely King has. Other issue is it spiting out the dogbones that was fixed by installing the Tamiya Double Cardan CVDs, then tire clearance without jacking the body to the moon, I did trim the openings and front bumper for now that will help with body clearance, at least.
Here’s a few pics starting with before setting it aside out of frustration.
And a couple after dragging it out with bowed rear body posts
Plus an under the shell pic
Then the mod for more droop on the right rear since things get tight in that spot.
Here’s the double cardan CVDs I put in to combat it spitting out the dogbones.
Also decided to clean up the wiring for now too, may have to rework things a bit if I swap out to a decent motor in the future, what ever that might be.
Routed the battery lead to avoid dragging it on the ground.
And no, the wires and/or plugs to not drag on the prop shaft either!
Here’s how I trimmed the bumper to clear the front tires at lock, though new posts should help there too.
Here’s how it looked after finishing today’s work on it.........while watching Wheeler Dealer.
When I first built it, the truck put silly putty in the diffs and put a 55t closed end bell motor from my Night Crawler BND (put a Traxxas Titan 21t in that) with the smallest Tamiya pinion while using a XL-5 ESC, basic Traxxas 2.4 radio and Savox waterproof servo and Duratrax 3000mAh 7.2v pack.I also used Tamiya’s red anodized aluminum sedan shocks and eventually Associated brown buggy springs, then RC4wd’s 1.55” Landry’s and Mickey-T Baja MTZ tires that are a good bit taller than the 1.9” Rally Block tires on the wheels from the Golf GTI kit that these come with.
Problems I’ve run into is that when it comes to torque, that motor is gutless, especially when you factor in the NiMH pack, taller gearing via too big of a pinion and those big Mickey-T’s and had no holding capability of even the Integy 55t that is still in my crawler Wheely King has. Other issue is it spiting out the dogbones that was fixed by installing the Tamiya Double Cardan CVDs, then tire clearance without jacking the body to the moon, I did trim the openings and front bumper for now that will help with body clearance, at least.
Here’s a few pics starting with before setting it aside out of frustration.
And a couple after dragging it out with bowed rear body posts
Plus an under the shell pic
Then the mod for more droop on the right rear since things get tight in that spot.
Here’s the double cardan CVDs I put in to combat it spitting out the dogbones.
Also decided to clean up the wiring for now too, may have to rework things a bit if I swap out to a decent motor in the future, what ever that might be.
Routed the battery lead to avoid dragging it on the ground.
And no, the wires and/or plugs to not drag on the prop shaft either!
Here’s how I trimmed the bumper to clear the front tires at lock, though new posts should help there too.
Here’s how it looked after finishing today’s work on it.........while watching Wheeler Dealer.
