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What did you do to you SCX-10 today?

Kesuai said:
Don't need to do both front (OD) and rear (UD)....just OD on the front helps...start there and see how it drives for YOU. Then if your adventurous do the rear as well. I did just the front an it works GREAT for climbing and increase turn radius a bit....
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After doing some reading was thinking of doing the Rear (UD) and leave Front Stock, would that work too?
 
I finished up the G6 for my younger son, Chris, with RC4WD bumpers, Pit Bulls on 1.9 Axial beadlocks, STRC chubs and shock towers, ProLine shocks, and Tekin brushed motor and ESC, with the body in Tamiya fluorescent orange and black textured spray paint on the cab area. It pretty closely matches his brother's Rubicon. I took the boys out for some trail time on our property and let Chris break in the G6, while George drove both his Rubi and my AX10 with the Ford truck body.

 
So I got impatient looking for aluminum tubing at the hardware stores and got creative! I used 8/32 all thread and 1/4 inch drip system tubing, along with traxxas rod ends. It came out clean, not sure how durable it will be, but I'm thinking it will hold up fairly well. If not, the hard work is done if I want to get aluminum tubing. Got 50 feet for $7 bucks. Check out my pix below.

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The best place to find the tubing is any store that stocks a K&S metals display. My local hobby store has a big K&S display, and ACE hardware has a small one. However, what you are using might work just as well. The best stuff is the Stainless Steel tubing by K&S, but I can only find it online.
 
Kesuai said:
Don't need to do both front (OD) and rear (UD)....just OD on the front helps...start there and see how it drives for YOU. Then if your adventurous do the rear as well. I did just the front an it works GREAT for climbing and increase turn radius a bit. I've got other upgrades I'll do first but eventually I may under drive the rear. When I did the front I put axial cvd's in at the same time. As far as grease, as long as the housing is sealed I don't really see the need to fill it up with grease. I did however use a lot of marine grease in the pumpkin.


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Very true that you don't have to do both. Just the front with a stock setup will work great. That is actually what I did, at first, and it worked fine. However, after I installed motor with a lot more torque and used a 3-cell lipo, I found I was getting a lot of torque twist. The rear underdrive gear fixed the torque twist.

I'm not a fan of packing the axle tubes with grease, because the axle does not really contact anything, except a couple of bearings which you can apply grease to individually. With no contact comes no friction, and no need for grease. Also, the more grease you use the more dirt you attract. I did what you did and packed up the pumpkin real good with waterproof grease.
 
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Added new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 12.3 Pro-Line body by RC4413. Body paint is Tamiya Corsa Gray (PS-32) & Black (PS-5). Working on a spare tire to mount, window tint, roof rack, & scale accessories. I am very pleased how it turned out.





 
Since we are going camping this week decided to check the crawlers out, 1 out of 4 crawlers didn't need work done to it lol

Mine bumpers need to be tightened again (proline bumpers sucks)!! rock lights were installed along with my vp light bar.

Kids rod end link was replaced as his snapped in half electronics moved to the back winch bracket fabbed up and heyok servo winched installed

flat deck mounted to my other son's honcho

bring on the camping trip and doing nothing but fun stuff with my three boys
 
rcntncrawler said:
The best place to find the tubing is any store that stocks a K&S metals display. My local hobby store has a big K&S display, and ACE hardware has a small one. However, what you are using might work just as well. The best stuff is the Stainless Steel tubing by K&S, but I can only find it online.
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I'll look into Ace, that's the one place I hadn't looked, thanks!
 
Well I got a slider, and I started to work on it a little...I call it the beater, an assembly of parts that has been in my shed for too long! Started today by putting Kyosho Rockforce tires on it...they came with spiderwebs! I really dont know what will happen in the end with this one!

 
I wanted some fender flairs, but not the large ones you can get from hobby suppliers. I don't know if i saw it somewhere or I just thought of it. I grabbed some extra vacumn hose that was in the garage. I sliced it down the center and slid it on the PowerWagon. I could always go a little larger hose.
I think it looks better than the pealing decals that Axial installed.
Good or bad ? Not trail tested yet. Still have to secure it to the body.





 
Got my rear bumper today ;) not sure i'm in love with it but it will be functional. Rearranged my chains a little too. No more hooks but I figure the hooks looked a little out of proportion sooo...


 
oklamopar said:
I wanted some fender flairs, but not the large ones you can get from hobby suppliers. I don't know if i saw it somewhere or I just thought of it. I grabbed some extra vacumn hose that was in the garage. I sliced it down the center and slid it on the PowerWagon. I could always go a little larger hose.
I think it looks better than the pealing decals that Axial installed.
Good or bad ? Not trail tested yet. Still have to secure it to the body.
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Those look good. I love finding something that others would call trash, and making it into something cool for my RC. Very creative and inventive.
 
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