Tbrown
Rock Stacker
I should start off when I started to to build the kit. I bought and built it while I lived in St. Louis. Did some mall crawling and once in a park. Had a novak 13.5t system in it. Then, when I moved to South Dakota. I got smart, I ditched the super unreliable brushless system. For a Cheapo 320 amp Chinese esc :lmao:. This I waterproofed and it lasted me the South Dakota trails for quite some time. Then, the expected happened. The dang thing shorted out on me. That's when I remembered a good friend back home having this 5 year old beat to heck novak rooster esc. He graciously shipped it to me and I installed that with a 35t terra crawler motor. With this setup I drove easily 21 miles with that thing in 3 months. It wasn't easy either! I wish I had captured more pictures, I always lurked around here but never thought to post!
Anyway, After a lot of hard miles I found my shock hoops to be bending in a bit. Why spend $40 for aluminum towers, when I bought a set of $5 turnbuckle links and made supports? Which are still holding up without any issues. Next was the battery relocation. I've seen many people use zip-ties. I decided I wanted this to be less ghetto, yet easy to fix if it breaks. I used some servo mounts off the parts tree, attached them into the outside of the frame (Will snap pictures in the morning). Battery plate dropped right on. Next was my super cheap (and super ghetto) Chassis mounted servo kit. This was a $14 piece of aluminum from ebay. Sat between the frame rails. I later discovered it likes to knock itself loose and scoot. So, I made a weird looking rig inside the c-frame to push it back. Which now works awesome! Then had to come the Aluminum C-Knuckle. I actually have a video of it doing it! The truck was pretty much stock up until then. With how much I put that thing through I was impressed! Then, there came this weekend.. Returning home I instantly started modifying. Fixed the pan-hard setup, Rebuilt the whole truck, new LEDs, Cheaply painted tow-rings, then the fun part. Re-did my whole chassis layout, added a winch, made a snorkel, a cb antenna. Then I made my own winch receiver so I could run it off my radio. Made it in a pinch and was suprised it worked!
I should probably post some pictures...
First actual day on the trail! 5 miles did her good. Also burnt out one of the 3 Chinese escs I had:lmao:
This one was a rough 7-mile wing-it hike. IT was a hot day for South Dakota (upper 90's lol). All up hill, no shade, hilly grassland. Yet we prevailed
My Personal favorite on the longest hike we took! I believe in poser shots, but only if you drive into the pose 8)
I have so many trails that I've taken this on. Had some in the field repairs made. eve anything huge. Mainly popped out links. A couple loose screws ( should have used loctite).
This was the winch controller I made with an old servo. Took the board out, adjusted the proportionality dealio. Then liquid taped it, I ran it into my Auxiliary.
The box I made (had to do SOMETHING productive)
This picture shows The winch, CB antennae, and the snorkel.
Oh Hey! Under the body picture.
I also have a link to the video when she broke. Only 1 mile into a 3 mile trail!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeWIOKZ-LzQ
Hopefully more to come!
Anyway, After a lot of hard miles I found my shock hoops to be bending in a bit. Why spend $40 for aluminum towers, when I bought a set of $5 turnbuckle links and made supports? Which are still holding up without any issues. Next was the battery relocation. I've seen many people use zip-ties. I decided I wanted this to be less ghetto, yet easy to fix if it breaks. I used some servo mounts off the parts tree, attached them into the outside of the frame (Will snap pictures in the morning). Battery plate dropped right on. Next was my super cheap (and super ghetto) Chassis mounted servo kit. This was a $14 piece of aluminum from ebay. Sat between the frame rails. I later discovered it likes to knock itself loose and scoot. So, I made a weird looking rig inside the c-frame to push it back. Which now works awesome! Then had to come the Aluminum C-Knuckle. I actually have a video of it doing it! The truck was pretty much stock up until then. With how much I put that thing through I was impressed! Then, there came this weekend.. Returning home I instantly started modifying. Fixed the pan-hard setup, Rebuilt the whole truck, new LEDs, Cheaply painted tow-rings, then the fun part. Re-did my whole chassis layout, added a winch, made a snorkel, a cb antenna. Then I made my own winch receiver so I could run it off my radio. Made it in a pinch and was suprised it worked!
I should probably post some pictures...
First actual day on the trail! 5 miles did her good. Also burnt out one of the 3 Chinese escs I had:lmao:
This one was a rough 7-mile wing-it hike. IT was a hot day for South Dakota (upper 90's lol). All up hill, no shade, hilly grassland. Yet we prevailed
My Personal favorite on the longest hike we took! I believe in poser shots, but only if you drive into the pose 8)
I have so many trails that I've taken this on. Had some in the field repairs made. eve anything huge. Mainly popped out links. A couple loose screws ( should have used loctite).
This was the winch controller I made with an old servo. Took the board out, adjusted the proportionality dealio. Then liquid taped it, I ran it into my Auxiliary.
The box I made (had to do SOMETHING productive)
This picture shows The winch, CB antennae, and the snorkel.
Oh Hey! Under the body picture.
I also have a link to the video when she broke. Only 1 mile into a 3 mile trail!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeWIOKZ-LzQ
Hopefully more to come!
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