Hi everyone, I recently recieved my trail trekker in the mail and It has not been smooth sailing but at least this little machine is fun. I'll start by sharing some of my experiences thus far. To begin with, I received the trail trekker on time and all was well. I was enjoying it for about 2 packs and then about halfway through the third back the truck started making this awful jerking and surging motion. my first thought was ohh no the esc of doom already went. I hopped on the phone with Horizon and told them my problem and they're sending a new esc for free. No questions asked which was good. Being anxious I couldn't help but tear into and and find the exact problem. I started by removing the front then rear drive shaft to eliminate the axles as problems and sure enough when i removed the rear drive shaft the surging went away. Next I tore the axle apart down to the gears. Everything looked fine so I re greased it and reassembled it and it was still doing the same thing. Now irritated, I took it all apart again and wire brushed the axle gears.... haha Reassembled and boom problem solved. Sooo thats good, but I'm not done, in the process i've stripped almost every brass ball stud on the thing and the only way to get them off after is to take the link off and unscrew it will pliers... Not fun. If anyone has any advice on why these dumb things keep stripping i'd love it. i would like to add i'm quite mechanically inclined and I take a few engineering courses so im no dummy with a screw driver. For whatever reason I can't not strip these... Moving on, I finally got the truck to a driveable state and it is very fun. I changed the body which i will post pics of later and made a scale course which I can also post if wanted. Its a very fun truck, if it wasnt for the **** ball studs id be very happy. One more thing I'm just adding.. I ordered micro super swampers from rpp and it says delivered and they are not here.... ughh just one more problem. Ohh well I love upgrading and using the truck I just wish it would be a little easier. Sorry for the long post i'm just sharing my experience. Any and all advice and comments are welcomed. Pics and build coming soon. Thanks
Pattyv12
Heres some pics of the truck with the new body. The body is a trimmed shell from the old style maisto crawler and I must say I love it. It has a good stance. The front sags a bit because of the added weight of the card retracting winch haha. New shocks are on the way to double up the springs and try and counter the extra weight. Next upgrade will be the super swampers if they ever show up from rpp....
Some pics of the scale crawling course... This is very fun
Playing with the idea of a scale snowplow. It looks pretty good imo. I've tried some beta designs of a plow and they actually work really well. Got to get something permanent first though before I post it. I'm in connecticut and we're currently getting about 16inches of snow tonight. We have about 2-3 inches of powder right now and honestly the trail trekker goes through it pretty good:ror::ror:"thumbsup"
Plow coming soon??? ;-):ror:"thumbsup"
Just ordered 30 of the dumb brass ball studs so when I strip them I dont even care. They are such a bad design I think.
New Super swampers.. broke all the shocks trying to get them off without removing the striped ball studs haha. Whatever. All new needed parts on the way shes gonna be a rippa
Pattyv12
Heres some pics of the truck with the new body. The body is a trimmed shell from the old style maisto crawler and I must say I love it. It has a good stance. The front sags a bit because of the added weight of the card retracting winch haha. New shocks are on the way to double up the springs and try and counter the extra weight. Next upgrade will be the super swampers if they ever show up from rpp....
Some pics of the scale crawling course... This is very fun
Playing with the idea of a scale snowplow. It looks pretty good imo. I've tried some beta designs of a plow and they actually work really well. Got to get something permanent first though before I post it. I'm in connecticut and we're currently getting about 16inches of snow tonight. We have about 2-3 inches of powder right now and honestly the trail trekker goes through it pretty good:ror::ror:"thumbsup"
Plow coming soon??? ;-):ror:"thumbsup"
Just ordered 30 of the dumb brass ball studs so when I strip them I dont even care. They are such a bad design I think.
New Super swampers.. broke all the shocks trying to get them off without removing the striped ball studs haha. Whatever. All new needed parts on the way shes gonna be a rippa
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