Wheely King

[BJoe]

A-Team van FOOL! LMAO!

Nah, A-Team van was a GMC, the LB body is a Dodge (maybe a Cannonball Run Ambulance instead.......................... )

[BJoe]

I'm putting it on Lay-A-Way today and ordering the LB body for it!

[DAVEC-NITRO-RS4]

Scooby Doo Mystery Machine

[bubbaracing]

:eek: YES that's it! Cmon Bjoe that's what ya should base it on!

[BJoe]

Took the truck off layaway today and I discovered the LB body won't fit, but I have another chassis that it'll fit with a little dremel work on the wheel openings, look for that thread in the onroad section in the next couple of days BTW, anybody know a good source for 1/12 scale shag carpeting?
:leghump: :moon: :leghump::vader: :leghump: :banana: :leghump: :leghump:

[Mnster]

Go for the aerostar.

[BJoe]

Here it is with the X-Brace still intalled and flexing on my Pede's RF wheel


And here it with out the brace flexing on my Pede's roof!

[bubbaracing]

Sweeeet! :d

[BJoe]

New pics!!

De-Caled and Chopped


Wheeled


Enjoy!

[Traxxas_Junkee]

Pretty cool.

[Jeepguy]

Go wheelin in the back yard joe? I found some nice spots in STC to try out when I finish my scaler

I Pity the fool who climbs rocks and got no locks.

[BJoe]

This is that lot on 59&64 I posted on Terra a couple weeks back.

[BJoe]

Got some updates here;
I've made a lexan trans skid


Moved things around so that I can have the battery end of the truck be the front end, nice, cheap, and easy since it was done with all unmodified stock parts too!

[rocco79]

wow! great articulation!

[BJoe]

wow! great articulation!

This little truck is really impressive for what little work and money I have in it sofar!

[Racin' Ranger1]

looks sweet

[BJoe]

After putting a better servo I noticed a noise like the spur gear was stripping but couldn't find the associated damage until I took a better look at the upper steering pushrod and discovered this


After I took this pic, I flipped the link and put it back on. A couple days later the screeching returned and I discovered this!


Well, I got to looking at the parts wall and spotted some of the rod ends in this bag


The gears in the old noggin got to turning and I found some other things to do some fabbing


These rod ends seemed to be the right shape and take 4-40 all-thread nicely too!


After doing a little guesstimating I came up with this


And here's the final product next to the replaced parts


Now for the installed pics "thumbsup"


Tested it after work and it's a big improvement, now I just need to reinforce the bellcrank/UCA mount on the front axle.........

[Ponch]

Looks 100% factory too! Nice work.

[BJoe]

Thanks Ponch, Kinda scarey how well it turned out for not much work, isn't it? The Savage tie rod ends in that parts bag will also be used to stretch the wheelbase too....eventually.......

[BJoe]

Just got around to stretching the truck and painted up an old ProLine Excursion I had laying around for it. It's now almost 12 1/4" in the wheelbase and I though the body turned out well considering I did it last night around 10pm with no electricity!