Working on videos, editing, jumps and my trucks....7-30-20/9-14-20 Update Now Drift Cars & Crawler! - Page 3

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Posted: 1/6/2021 10:19:57 AM EDT

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What truck/model is it, exactly? I am curious!

I got to tell you, I was bummed out when it started free-wheeling and not climbing hardly at all while cousin's TRX4 was flying all around me, mocking my Jeep, lol. Just getting good working results and the thought of "grounding" it was making me sick to my stomach, mainly because I was about to drop another $300 in parts or $400 in another truck. I do want a TRX4, just got my eye on the new Losi Super Baja Rey 2.0 right now, too and that is 2x what TRX4's are running. It literally took me 2 hours of google-foo and about 2 hours total(including a dinner squeezed in) to get my front ripped apart, fixed and back together running test runs in front and back yard areas. Only because I had a parts bin full of gears, though. I am a firm believer in not throwing parts/gears away that aren't chipped or broken and bearings that aren't froze up even if I just use them for mock-ups or fitting and it has paid off more times than not.

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I have an old RC truck that has been sitting in parts for a while, the front and rear diff spider gears blew apart. I have been unable to find a match that will work. At this point I am thinking about using JB Weld or bondo to make an entirely new front and rear diff fit in the housing.

What truck/model is it, exactly? I am curious!

I got to tell you, I was bummed out when it started free-wheeling and not climbing hardly at all while cousin's TRX4 was flying all around me, mocking my Jeep, lol. Just getting good working results and the thought of "grounding" it was making me sick to my stomach, mainly because I was about to drop another $300 in parts or $400 in another truck. I do want a TRX4, just got my eye on the new Losi Super Baja Rey 2.0 right now, too and that is 2x what TRX4's are running. It literally took me 2 hours of google-foo and about 2 hours total(including a dinner squeezed in) to get my front ripped apart, fixed and back together running test runs in front and back yard areas. Only because I had a parts bin full of gears, though. I am a firm believer in not throwing parts/gears away that aren't chipped or broken and bearings that aren't froze up even if I just use them for mock-ups or fitting and it has paid off more times than not.

It is an old Radio Shack Avalanche. A member here had it sent it too me for the cost of shipping. It got my daughter and I hooked. Once the diffs went, that is when we got the Arrma. I dont think RS ever sold parts for them. I was able to piece the spider gears back together enough to get some tooth counts and measurements. I ordered a few and they didnt fit. That is why I am thinking about making or modifying the diff housing to work with something else.

I posted a picture of it here: HERE

Posted: 1/6/2021 1:28:07 PM EDT

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Oh, ok. I think I missed that post when I got digging around in here. That one there looks a lot like a basic New Bright HD F-150 my FIL got me as a gift one year from his store. Not high end or anything but shoot did me and my daughter, niece and nephew have a blast with that darn thing that year and it ran pretty good. Still does I imagine, if the battery isn't dead-dead. It is sitting on my makeshift hobby table now.

Yeah, with our models here we probably not going to find much in the way of direct replacements and I see a lot of these types of bodies on ebay like people run them till the burn up or find them burnt up then part out tops for the crawler or scale community. Just usually too small for my rigs to look right. I did have an old New Bright Land Rover and was about to toss it one cleaning weekend and got into these rock crawlers about the same time so took the top off and found it was a very nice top, almost the nicest thing on the whole toy, actually. I think I pictured it here early on mounted to my Bender but I would really like to adapt it to my Losi NCSE and take it on the rocks. I have it on a AWD Losi XXX Touring chassis currently and it looks....different.

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Guess I didn't ever post pics with that top on crawler. Here is New Bright top on the Bender a while ago.

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