Wally crawlers

Franklin

Franklin

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Mar 21, 2005
Location
Hickory NC
Anybidy else get bit by this bug yet? I sat outside til 1am last time hammering mine. I got the Scorpion which will have something else on it. Painting it today, cutting springs and removing the clearance killing front bars. Pretty cool lil fawker for $50
 
ive got a few
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The little belt-drive ones like in the front of ramitall's photo benefit greatly from running no springs at all, and a center limiting strap in the front. The belt drive puts a huge anti-dive load on the front suspension, that just makes it want to unweight and push away as soon as you get it on a climb.

Fix that, and they go pretty well.
 
the little ones, what are they called? can't seem to find them at my local wally world by myself, and the people that work there look at me strangely when i try and describe them..like they've never wanted to paly with children's toys. :rolleyes:
 
Yes, I happened to see those last night...they have a slightly smaller version for like $50, and the big one (1:6 scale) for like $150 (I think, can't remember). Those things are freakin awesome, and I want one!
 
i got all three if my small ones for like 10 dollers or something like that the lare truck in the pick is my tmaxx and i want get in to what i got in it :rolleyes:
 
Franklin, I have one of the 1:18th scale ones with Jeep body. I am having a blast with it. There is a big rock garden ditch right next to the office where I work out of, so lunch has been fun...
 
uglyjeepoffroad said:
Franklin, I have one of the 1:18th scale ones with Jeep body. I am having a blast with it. There is a big rock garden ditch right next to the office where I work out of, so lunch has been fun...
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Lets just say Allison was not happy w/ my landscaping modifications this morning :huggy: I'll have a course built after my rock collecting trip this weekend
 
I bought a TLT-1 from David Brown about a month ago, it is a sweet little r/c. it is 1/18th scale, locked F+R, 4-wheel steer, solid axle 4-link suspension. I have put beefy aluminum steering links on it to get rid of the cheap steel ones, also so I could take off the huge skidplate that protected the steel ones. I am going to make longer suspension links (aluminum) for it when I get time, it flips over too easily and the longer wheelbase would help a ton.

Will also do many more mods to it as time and money lets me. I have started on a tube frame for it made out of brakeline tubing, it will give me the length I want, and will help center ground clearance alot.

I took a ton of pics, so I put them on Yahoo, every pic taken was what the truck was doing, not me moving the truck for every pic. Some pretty cool action shots in there too. I will post a couple here.

The rest of the pics are here: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tacomas747/album?.dir=/ad83
 
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