Wheely King Axle Breakdown pics

[Swampth1ng]

The HPI Wheely King is one tough truck, I was recently looking for a fun electric truck. I first seen it on HPI's site and then I went looking for videos on youtube. Heres what I found.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUFnTavAL8Y

If this video is for real, Im getting a wheely king. Theres more Wheely king vids on youtube aswell.

-Does anyone know if the Clod Buster is comparable to the wheely king?

 

[Got Rocks?]

The HPI Wheely King is one tough truck, I was recently looking for a fun electric truck. I first seen it on HPI's site and then I went looking for videos on youtube. Heres what I found.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUFnTavAL8Y

If this video is for real, Im getting a wheely king. Theres more Wheely king vids on youtube aswell.

-Does anyone know if the Clod Buster is comparable to the wheely king?

that vid was by the maker of this thread:lol:

 

[K_B]

-Does anyone know if the Clod Buster is comparable to the wheely king?

The Clod is considerably larger and uses an entirely different drivetrain setup; dual motors, one on each axle, etc. etc.

 

[SteepJeep]

I was wondering if any of you Wheely King owners could give me a dimension from the centerline of shock shaft to shock shaft, preferably at the axle. I am building a chassis and would like an idea for width.
Thanks,
Aaron

 

[NickRummy]

this should be pretty close to perfect for center to center at the axle mounts.

 

[SteepJeep]

Awesome! Its nice to see so many mechanical designers on this board! What program are you running for that drawing? It messes with my head when I see things drawn in anything other than AutoCAD. Im so used to using it at work....Very nice by the way!
-Aaron-

 

[NickRummy]

That was all drawn in Autocad R14

 

[rockbender]

I will post pics of my full on 2.2 hpi axled crawler when I get back home.
We have allready made a chassis kit for it with stock tranny or Any other tranny.
THese are the axles of the future.

 

[JasonInAugusta]

The HPI Wheely King is one tough truck, I was recently looking for a fun electric truck. I first seen it on HPI's site and then I went looking for videos on youtube. Heres what I found.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUFnTavAL8Y

If this video is for real, Im getting a wheely king. Theres more Wheely king vids on youtube aswell.

-Does anyone know if the Clod Buster is comparable to the wheely king?

Who's this JasonInAugusta guy and why is he posting my vids on YouTube?! :lol:

 

[top242]

hi, i am fron spain, sorry my english. I need aid to begin with this car. That I need aside from the original car, he is better to buy the whole or single car the axes? Thanks for all the information. With photos better.

 

[JasonInAugusta]

Buying the whole car used to be the way to go, but HPI Europe announced the 4WD Wheely King.

You might want to wait for the 4WD version.

 

[top242]

Thanzs!, is necessary another transmission (tranny)? to change the inclination of the shock absorbers? It is possible to become a chassis customized? there are already measures for it? Thank you very much!
that extra they are necessary?

 

[JasonInAugusta]

top242, check out the following for more info:

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53677

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57656

 

[top242]

thanzs again!, one more question, ist better option chose this car or custom TLT-1 or clod?

 

[JasonInAugusta]

Honestly I'd go with whichever rig you can easily get parts for.

 

[top242]

Thanks, I see but easy obtain pieces of car new, that of one discontinued . That is the reason to fix to me to this car. Here in Spain, is little liking to these cars. For that reason yours opinion is of much aid for my. If he were possible to construct a chassis, serious but perhaps interesting to buy single the axes and reducing? Or by the price is better the whole car? I already have of transmitter and servo, bateria and shipper.

 

[JasonInAugusta]

The parts are available to build the axles but, unless you get the axle assemblies off ebay, you'll pay a large amount of the RTR price to build the axles.

Ebay might be your best option to get complete axle assemblies.

 

[top242]

one question more. Is posible "superclass crawler" building?

 

[cotharyus]

Jason, a couple of things.

First, and slightly off topic - Thank you to you and all the guys at RCD for the time you put into that, and for picking up on the WK thing, and doing what you did with it.

I just picked up a WK this week, and like everyone else, I'm waiting for a few parts to come off back order - of course, I need to swing by my LHS too - seems like Larry had NMT diff case in there....

As far as the sliders go, how far do you think the stock 4-link can be extended using the stock sliders?

There are little ridges on the axle housings that look like they hold the bottom link/shock mount brackets in place - I'm trying to build a crawler a step at a time, and want to combat the twist a little - moving the mounts all the way out on the axle should help, but do you think they'll stay put?

I'm looking forward to keeping up what you do with Ralph. I've been fabricating stuff in the shop for a long time, but I've never extended that work to my R/C habit. I figure after 20+ years, it's time for me to build something of my own. Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[NickRummy]

You MIGHT be able to stretch the wheelbase to around 10.5" using the stock sliders but that would be getting close. There wouldn't be much material hooked together and could be pretty week. Maxx drive shafts will fit right onto the pinion shaft and the tranny output shaft. I stretched my WK to 12.5" using the maxx drive shafts. I had to cut the drive shafts down about 1/4" but it only took 5 minutes with the dremel.