Topher Builds
I wanna be Dave
Those of you that are connected with me on social media have likely already seen this, but I wanted to start a ‘rebuild’ thread as I’m planning on spending a lot of time with this truck this year.
So back in the Pant Danza days I had purchased a trx4 Bronco. Before this truck I had only had one crawler, which was an scx10.2 that was nearly box stock save for some plastic proline wheels, hyrax tires, and a servo. While it was fun, I eventually sold it to a member here and picked up a TRX4 Bronco.
Then, thanks to all of you here the bug to upgrade bit me and as you’ve all seen it’s been downhill ever since. While parts came and went, it was a good learning process and the truck ended up performing quite well.
I ran this truck a lot until I started building more, and little by little parts were taken from this rig and used for others until this was a slider sitting on my work bench for months.
Fast forward to last week, 7 months after the last time I drove it, I had some spare electronics around and got to reviving the rex.
Took it out yesterday and had a lot of fun, I almost forgot how capable this truck is. Portals and all it will still climb, just as well as my trail king and even the 10.2 tiny tired Jeep. Short video below from sunday if you’d like to check it out.
There won’t be many new mods to this truck as it does well in its current state, but it will be getting a new body, possibly a new set of tires, and a lot more wheel time.
Parts that are still on it:
HW 1080 and HH 21T trailmaster sport, JX servo
Overdrive and underdrive gears
eBay axles
Ssd brass portal cover up front
Samix brass chubs and knuckles
GRC aluminum rear shock mounts
HR brass diff cover in front
Samix high clearance links
45/9 spur/pinion single speed
Spooled diffs
One pic of her when she was new new and a couple from yesterday below.
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So back in the Pant Danza days I had purchased a trx4 Bronco. Before this truck I had only had one crawler, which was an scx10.2 that was nearly box stock save for some plastic proline wheels, hyrax tires, and a servo. While it was fun, I eventually sold it to a member here and picked up a TRX4 Bronco.
Then, thanks to all of you here the bug to upgrade bit me and as you’ve all seen it’s been downhill ever since. While parts came and went, it was a good learning process and the truck ended up performing quite well.
I ran this truck a lot until I started building more, and little by little parts were taken from this rig and used for others until this was a slider sitting on my work bench for months.
Fast forward to last week, 7 months after the last time I drove it, I had some spare electronics around and got to reviving the rex.
Took it out yesterday and had a lot of fun, I almost forgot how capable this truck is. Portals and all it will still climb, just as well as my trail king and even the 10.2 tiny tired Jeep. Short video below from sunday if you’d like to check it out.
There won’t be many new mods to this truck as it does well in its current state, but it will be getting a new body, possibly a new set of tires, and a lot more wheel time.
Parts that are still on it:
HW 1080 and HH 21T trailmaster sport, JX servo
Overdrive and underdrive gears
eBay axles
Ssd brass portal cover up front
Samix brass chubs and knuckles
GRC aluminum rear shock mounts
HR brass diff cover in front
Samix high clearance links
45/9 spur/pinion single speed
Spooled diffs
One pic of her when she was new new and a couple from yesterday below.
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