I have been on the forums for a couple years now. I have never done anything more than start a couple threads about problems with my LNC. I figure it is time that I start a build thread."thumbsup"
I bought a RTR LNC back in late 2010. First mod was a hobbico 170 oz servo and proline chisels with lead weights stuck to the inside of the wheels. I broke a wheel putting things back together and picked up a set of proline titus bead locks with the internal weight rings. At the same time I picked up aluminum hexes, aluminum steering linkage and a proline crowd pleazer body. I ran this set up for quite a while until the stock motor burned out. At that point I bought a Holmes Torquemaster Pro handwound 35t motor. I pulled the axles apart, cleaned, and re-greased them with high temp red tacky grease. I also made myself a set of bent aluminum lower links. The first time back on the rocks, the servo stripped itself. I ordered a hitec 7955 tg to put in its place with a CC BEC. I decided to go body-less shortly after that. I hacked the unnecessary bits off the stock chassis and made myself two 1/8" aluminum fast back sides with 1/4" aluminum rod cross members. I thought it looked really cool, but I didn't run it much. You know the typical excuse of life gets in the way, blah, blah, blah. ;-)
I will try to dig up some pictures of how it used to look.
Then one day I stumbled upon TURTLE's thread titled "A little Toyota named Scuba Tank" and things changed forever. I had to have a hilux with a similar paint scheme. So I decided to get the LNC off the shelf and convert it to a scaler. I knew I wasn't up to the task of a full drop bed like TURTLE's, so I went with just a cab and decided to go the truggy route. I went with 2.2 TTC Baja Claws instead since I already had the 2.2 wheels. I ordered a SCX10 chassis and got to work. I tore the stock LNC shocks apart and put some internal springs and new 90wt oil inside. I am running a full droop setup. After a few hours at the work bench I arrived at a roller.
I wanted a chassis mounted servo so I attached the servo to one of the cross members of the frame and made a drag link out of all-thread. That is when I discovered that 4 links and CMS kits don't work together. I then made a panhard bracket for the front axle out of .063 aluminum and a panhard mount on the frame out of 24ga matte black kynar coated galvalume. (I work at a standing seam metal roofing manufacturing company with lots of scraps.)
I got it to cycle pretty well and was happy with it. I then moved on to getting the body mocked up. I knew I would have to pinch the nose to get the tires to not rub as much. Here are a couple pics with the pinched body just sitting in place. I wanted to keep the body (and whole truck for that matter) as low as possible while still fitting a large lipo under the hood for maximum runtime.
more to come in the next post.
I bought a RTR LNC back in late 2010. First mod was a hobbico 170 oz servo and proline chisels with lead weights stuck to the inside of the wheels. I broke a wheel putting things back together and picked up a set of proline titus bead locks with the internal weight rings. At the same time I picked up aluminum hexes, aluminum steering linkage and a proline crowd pleazer body. I ran this set up for quite a while until the stock motor burned out. At that point I bought a Holmes Torquemaster Pro handwound 35t motor. I pulled the axles apart, cleaned, and re-greased them with high temp red tacky grease. I also made myself a set of bent aluminum lower links. The first time back on the rocks, the servo stripped itself. I ordered a hitec 7955 tg to put in its place with a CC BEC. I decided to go body-less shortly after that. I hacked the unnecessary bits off the stock chassis and made myself two 1/8" aluminum fast back sides with 1/4" aluminum rod cross members. I thought it looked really cool, but I didn't run it much. You know the typical excuse of life gets in the way, blah, blah, blah. ;-)
I will try to dig up some pictures of how it used to look.
Then one day I stumbled upon TURTLE's thread titled "A little Toyota named Scuba Tank" and things changed forever. I had to have a hilux with a similar paint scheme. So I decided to get the LNC off the shelf and convert it to a scaler. I knew I wasn't up to the task of a full drop bed like TURTLE's, so I went with just a cab and decided to go the truggy route. I went with 2.2 TTC Baja Claws instead since I already had the 2.2 wheels. I ordered a SCX10 chassis and got to work. I tore the stock LNC shocks apart and put some internal springs and new 90wt oil inside. I am running a full droop setup. After a few hours at the work bench I arrived at a roller.
I wanted a chassis mounted servo so I attached the servo to one of the cross members of the frame and made a drag link out of all-thread. That is when I discovered that 4 links and CMS kits don't work together. I then made a panhard bracket for the front axle out of .063 aluminum and a panhard mount on the frame out of 24ga matte black kynar coated galvalume. (I work at a standing seam metal roofing manufacturing company with lots of scraps.)
I got it to cycle pretty well and was happy with it. I then moved on to getting the body mocked up. I knew I would have to pinch the nose to get the tires to not rub as much. Here are a couple pics with the pinched body just sitting in place. I wanted to keep the body (and whole truck for that matter) as low as possible while still fitting a large lipo under the hood for maximum runtime.
more to come in the next post.
