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solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 8:24 a.m.

Picked up a pair of Traxxas TRX4M's a couple months back for me and the kiddo. I figured these would be the best way for me to get back into RC stuff with since they are smaller, inexpensive, slow and have a large and growing catalog of parts. The bigger scale and accuracy sold me on these over the similar Axial offering.

Purchased from a local hobby shop. Got the 2 rigs, AA batteries, 2 spare truck batteries and led light kits for both.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 11:38 a.m.

Posing inside.

paul_s0
paul_s0 Reader
5/18/23 11:46 a.m.

I'll be interested to hear how they go-I've gotten my kids interested in RC (Lunchbox for them, ECX Circuit with aftermarket BL setup for me), but with space constraints we can only really use them when we go to the beach - something smaller scale could be just the ticket.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 11:50 a.m.

Got them out in the snow and mud in the yard a few weeks ago.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 11:56 a.m.

Took them to a nice rocky lot down the road

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 11:56 a.m.

Offroad shop version 1.0

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:02 p.m.

First round of upgrades

Steel beadlock wheels with sticky 62mm tires

+2mm hubs

steel high clearance control arms

aluminum transfer case skid plate/control arm mount

Steel long slip drive shafts

LED light bar (I always say lockers before light bars, fortunately these are already locked)

Multi position shock mounts

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:03 p.m.

Trailer for the kiddo

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:05 p.m.

Defender build 1.0

This is with everything except the shock mounts and light bar installed, ran out of time that day.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:06 p.m.

Haul;ing rocks for the offroad park.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:07 p.m.

Shock mounts installed and a bit of lift.

Testing

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:09 p.m.

Lowered the front end a bit, installed more shims on all four upper control arms to help pinion angle. I had added length to all four rear control arms when I installed them for a tiny bit more wheel base.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:09 p.m.

Start of the Offroad park

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 12:10 p.m.

Median
Median New Reader
5/18/23 1:58 p.m.

I did not need to see this.

Looks like loads of fun.

preach (dudeist priest)
preach (dudeist priest) GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/18/23 5:13 p.m.

Most wheeling I've ever seen you do haha.

solfly
solfly Dork
5/18/23 6:36 p.m.

Ha! Trying to make up for it in both 1:18 and 1:1!

solfly
solfly Dork
6/11/23 7:08 p.m.

They've multiplied.

solfly
solfly Dork
6/11/23 7:14 p.m.

Next Rabbit Hole:

solfly
solfly Dork
6/12/23 8:06 a.m.

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solfly
solfly Dork
6/12/23 8:09 a.m.

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solfly
solfly Dork
6/12/23 8:10 a.m.

bumpsteer
bumpsteer Reader
6/12/23 8:50 a.m.

This might be the motivation I needed to get my SCX10 clone running again.

preach (dudeist priest)
preach (dudeist priest) GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/13/23 4:01 p.m.

Back in time machine DJ, NEOW is doing it too:

https://www.neow.net/topic/122921-lets-talk-about-jeeps-rc-jeeps/

Roostah
Roostah New Reader
6/13/23 11:36 p.m.
preach (dudeist priest) said:

Back in time machine DJ, NEOW is doing it too:

https://www.neow.net/topic/122921-lets-talk-about-jeeps-rc-jeeps/

Hahaha, nice segue...

I just started to get back in to scale RC

 

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