if you could design your own custom solid axle...

[william g]

so if you could build your own custom monster truck type solid axle...

Would you...

A) choose currently available guts to make it cheaper, and which ones
B) choose aluminum or plastic cast trees
C) light weight, or go realistic and suffer some increased weight
D) cast or machined and suffer added costs

 

[Brian34]

I would come up with a design, and yes it would be aluminuminuminum based, would waste time on plastic. I would compensate for the slight added weight, with gearing and more power. I would use readily available parts, although I probably would enlist Mike Hesse on it.

 

[Renegade]

If I were to design my own solid axle, I'd use current parts as much as possible. Most likely traxxas parts as they are cheap, easy to get, and their plastic is amazing. I'd use plastic/composites as much as possible to keep weight low, possibly aluminum bits in the high stress areas such as the hubs. Definitly go with a gear diff as they can be locked, where as a spool cannot be switched into a working differential. As far as molded vs. machined, while molding parts certainly looks more factory I'd never be able to front the mold costs or be able to sell enough to make it worth it so machining the parts individually would be the better choice for me personally.

 

[RC-nut]

Heres mine.

Wheely king axles....why? there short and stout. I think they are pretty dang tough!
For a trans I'm uncertain prob a e-maxx trans would be ideal
Chassis Id like to go carbon fiber for weight. I drove Jerry's Terminator and that thing was awesome.
the whole scale look comes with a cost and to be honest nothing looks more scale than a tuber. Usually a fun truck is light and fast. I had a savage-X with an os .30 nitro it had ALOT of power and had the rear locked it would cyclone like max-d. The most fun I ever had with rc's. Id like to see that kind of power scaled down 1/10th scale electric solid axle truck.

 

[JKRacing37]

I'll take a 1/10th scale Wheely King, steel trans gears, clocked motor plate, Revo sized drive shafts, HD ring and pinions, and a better inner axle/stub axle material. I'd also like a wider / more scale tire, please.

So I guess to specifically answer your questions:

A) - new stuff...a bigger, beefier version of a currently available truck.
B) - Plastic is fine...never had an issue with WK plastic.
C) - Light weight all the way.
D) - Machined, especially the ring and pinion gears. If I have to spend $20 more initially to save $30 in the long run, so be it.

 

[jetboat]

Rc3wd bully v6 axle shafts with lightened gears (an open diff option). Delrin cases and axle tubes.

Or

Wk mip cvd shafts, axial overdrive hardened gears, a slightly redesigned wk case (new link/shock mounting), and an aluminum gear carrier.

Or

Traxxas emaxx interals in a new case

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[HawnMT]

Slightly narrower Wraith axles with a centered pumpkin would be perfect. They have 4 link and servo mounts already on the axle not the funky setup on WKs. Very strong with ample upgrades with great performance.

But what I'd really like to see is a dual diameter Rumble that is slightly narrower. The outside of the rim would be 2.2 while the inside would be larger. That would give it the scale appearance on the outside and still allow it to be mounted on Clod/TXT axles as well as smaller axles.

 

[Orange Pedeanaut]

Juggernaut/Txt style axles with a few mods but made of Traxxas plastic, Traxxas Revo diffs? Clodbuster axle shafts? I can picture the stuff in my head, just couldnt ever put it on paper lol.