Project "Rebuild The Boys Truck..."

[BackToThePast]

Ok, so I got around to Putting my Boy's Zilla II back together today. Started to anyway. Waiting on some parts.

As you may have read, we both broke our trucks the other day. Tubes, knuckles, cracked case (found that today)...

So I did a little preventitive measure and added CPE inner and outer axle stiffeners to his axles, as well as CPE's quilck axle tube change kit.

For those who haven't seen this, although I'm sure that you all have, you just tap the tubes and axles and install the provided bolts. The new bolts thread in from the outside without a nut on the inside. This allows you to change an axle tube without splitting the case:

Hopefully this helps keep his tubes in one peice. And at least if it doesn't, they'll be easier to change now!

This is how it sits now:

We're waiting for a steering knuckle to come from an Ebay purchase, steel pinions from CPE, and his new evx2 is at the LHS having some soldering done. I'm also replacing the stock cans with two multiplex 600's that I got from Joe in the RCMT classifieds, along with the ESC.

 

[FullMetalGrv]

That's cool. I was wondering how those quick change tubes worked. I haven't had the time to work on my project clods and get into the axles yet.

 

[BackToThePast]

Made some more progress on the Boy's Zilla II last night. It'd be done but we're still waiting on some parts. You can probably guess which ones from the pics, but it's a steering knuckle, and the front body mounts from ESP.

The knuckle is my fault. I figured I'd just use one from my my truck after I put my aluminum ones on. I did't realize that all the ones we broke on both trucks were the same side!

The body mounts I'm actually getting quite annoyed about at this point. I ordered his chassis the first week of January. I specifically asked if I would recieve it before January 20th (his B-day). "No problem". His B-day comes and goes without the Zilla. It came a week later with four rear body mounts and no front mounts. Here it is exactly one month AFTER his B-day and no mounts. Suposedly they're on the way now. We'll see... I rigged it up so he could drive it, but that's besides the point.

Anyway, here's the truck as it sits now:

The Multiplex 600 motors installed. I wanted to make it faster for him without making it crazy fast. I hope these do the trick on 14.4:

And no more MSC. EVX2:

 

[william g]

If you ever decide to lower it for handling, those round U shaped bars can be cut and rethreaded so that the truck sets down more greatly lowering the CG. You can flip he shock mounts upsde down on the rails too.

 

[BackToThePast]

If you ever decide to lower it for handling, those round U shaped bars can be cut and rethreaded so that the truck sets down more greatly lowering the CG. You can flip he shock mounts upsde down on the rails too.

Hey thanks, but he's twelve. He wants it to be as high as can be. The whole monster jam thing, you know? :tmb

 

[BackToThePast]

The good news: Well, I finally finished the boy's truck this afternoon, with the exception of the front body mounts. They still have not arrived. That's why the body is taped on and tilted down in the video.

The bad news? I took the remote from him to show him how to go fast and slow down before turning... Then I hit the curb, broke a new knuckle, new tube, and OG wheel...

Here's the video: (Listen at the end where I tell my Boy HE's going to brake his new steering knuckles... :bang

http://www.youtube.com/user/Lopside12?feature=mhum

Here's the aftermath from ME hitting the curb a few minutes later...

 

[BackToThePast]

I didn't mention in the above post that I, we, hated the center steer, so I took the mounts and servos off my truck and put them on his. I ordered two BTA setups for mine from CPE.

Here's how I fixed his truck after I broke it this time:

I had these alluminum knuckles that came with a parts lot that I picked up from Ebay a little while ago. I was going to use them before but I didn't have the hardware. More specifically, the little plastic spacers to use them with the stock tubes. After breaking another knuckle I figured it out. I ended up using three brass bushings stacked up on each side of each knuckle. Seems to work well:

I don't know what brand these knuckles are, but they look pretty beefy.

I've decided that from now on, if he, or I, break a knuckle ar a tube on this thing, I'm just going to replace it with aluminum. It'll be cheaper in the long run!