I never intended to do this.
I was out driving this truck one day.
I took it out in the road, and steered it toward the curb.
I let it coast, and right before the front tires contacted the curb, I stabbed the gas.
The truck did an insane slap-wheelie-esque jump up on to the grass.
It landed hard on the tailgate, like a lawn dart kind of.
I was originally going to just replace the mangled chassis plates.
But then, later on(yes I kept driving it) I heard a violent crunching sound in the rear axle.
Which was the topic of my thread, Driveshaft went crrrrunch.
So, in went the hardened steel gears.
Meanwhile, I got a PM from Brett @ CPE.
He said he was doing a race chassis conversion on a customer's new GP, and asked me if I wanted the stock gunmetal chassis/battery plates.
I said YES !
So I got those.
The F250 Super Duty body that I had been using for awhile, is in shambles.
It looks like its been in a war.
So, I chose to replace it, with a Pro-Line F650 Super Duty body.
I also found that Tamiya, makes gun metal paint.
So the truck will have: gunmetal chassis & links, black(or at least mostly black) wheels, and a gunmetal truck body on it.
At this point, the truck is a rolling chassis.
I recently picked up some Imex diamond nylon wheels.
Today, just a few minutes ago, I finished dying them Black.
I may have to do that again, depending on how they look after they dry.
I also have installed some parts on this truck, of which, I have not gotten the "Ok" to share information on.
These parts are intended to correct and prevent a very common issue with this truck.
Let's just say, Mike Hesse strikes again ! lol.
Yes, I will post pics; but not until its done.
I laid the body down on the tires.
Normally with a monster truck, the tires look huge in proportion to the tires, hence it being a monster truck.
With this F650 body though, the tires look like they came stock for that truck lol.
I also bought a Traxxas TQ 2.4ghz radio, for both of my GP's, so that should fix any radio issues that could arise.
As I said before, I just dyed the wheels today. I may attempt to do the body today, but will probably wait on that till I get more ideal temprature to paint in.
I was out driving this truck one day.
I took it out in the road, and steered it toward the curb.
I let it coast, and right before the front tires contacted the curb, I stabbed the gas.
The truck did an insane slap-wheelie-esque jump up on to the grass.
It landed hard on the tailgate, like a lawn dart kind of.
I was originally going to just replace the mangled chassis plates.
But then, later on(yes I kept driving it) I heard a violent crunching sound in the rear axle.
Which was the topic of my thread, Driveshaft went crrrrunch.
So, in went the hardened steel gears.
Meanwhile, I got a PM from Brett @ CPE.
He said he was doing a race chassis conversion on a customer's new GP, and asked me if I wanted the stock gunmetal chassis/battery plates.
I said YES !
So I got those.
The F250 Super Duty body that I had been using for awhile, is in shambles.
It looks like its been in a war.
So, I chose to replace it, with a Pro-Line F650 Super Duty body.
I also found that Tamiya, makes gun metal paint.
So the truck will have: gunmetal chassis & links, black(or at least mostly black) wheels, and a gunmetal truck body on it.
At this point, the truck is a rolling chassis.
I recently picked up some Imex diamond nylon wheels.
Today, just a few minutes ago, I finished dying them Black.
I may have to do that again, depending on how they look after they dry.
I also have installed some parts on this truck, of which, I have not gotten the "Ok" to share information on.
These parts are intended to correct and prevent a very common issue with this truck.
Let's just say, Mike Hesse strikes again ! lol.
Yes, I will post pics; but not until its done.
I laid the body down on the tires.
Normally with a monster truck, the tires look huge in proportion to the tires, hence it being a monster truck.
With this F650 body though, the tires look like they came stock for that truck lol.
I also bought a Traxxas TQ 2.4ghz radio, for both of my GP's, so that should fix any radio issues that could arise.
As I said before, I just dyed the wheels today. I may attempt to do the body today, but will probably wait on that till I get more ideal temprature to paint in.
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