wow man you must be a engineer love to see those hand crafted parts .best thing i have seen in a long time.how did you get that diff to look like that.???

I like your work .. ARC ..

Your crawler takes the value. Your changes are new here, and all members should take advantage of your knowledge.

must agree loulou this guy knows his stuff.infact iam going to save these pics for future reference.

this work is far the best i have seen on rockcrawler .five stars.*****

I keep all posts by (((MR .. ARC)))

you are wrong hot shocks it is far the best but i give 10 stars **********

Wow! Thanks for the compliments guys. Its nice.

I`m no engineer NotaToy, just a gearhead with some cool tools that doesnt know any better. I always try to "think outside the box" as much as I can when building something.
I made a thread showing my Diff clearance mod http://rcboards.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8401055751/m/4141038174
Hopefully a lot of others can take advantage of it.

how the hell did i miss that post .i know were to come for advice.and power hogg your wrong its a 100% out of 100%.

Hey, where can you buy those war tanks?

A.R.C., well done!! the improvement on the diff clearance simple idea - beautiful execution

That's some fine work A.R.C.

loulou - hope your feeling better!

Any more progress on teh Build? I really like your "First" 4 link, . I think I am going to try to run mine close to the same. I also Like thoes axle trusses! THEY ARE SWEET-NES!!! Keep up the good work and please keep taking PIctures!

I got a few more ?'s for ya...did you make the 4 links? or where did you get em? The only thing that I think I will do differently is run Longer arms for the outter most ones. take them about halgh way back the frame.

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Originally posted by A.R.C.:
Wow! Thanks for the compliments guys. Its nice.

I`m no engineer NotaToy, just a gearhead with some cool tools that doesnt know any better. I always try to "think outside the box" as much as I can when building something.
I made a thread showing my Diff clearance mod http://rcboards.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8401055751/m/4141038174
Hopefully a lot of others can take advantage of it.

very impressive. I will be using some of these mods on my 1:6 nice pics too.

good job

Thanks again guys. Glad to hear you can use some of my ideas on your 1/6 j33p3r. A 1/6 done up to be a slow moving rock crawler would be unstoppable.

I`ve almost got the build done, I`m just waiting on my new shocks and tires to arrive. I took it for its maiden voyage over the rock pile in my parking lot and it was pretty dam impressive. Even with the original tires and a set of shocks off of a 1/6 LR3 it performed better than I had ever thought it would.

I figured I would take the hardest route over the rocks for the first trip, one that the previous configuration of my Jeep couldnt do, so that I could get a good guage as to how it will perform. It drove up and over without pause, not even spinning a tire. That was in -13c weather with ice and snow all over the place. I proceeded to drive up and over the rockpile at will, taking any line I wanted and was only stopped once when I jammed a front tire between 2 rocks, which was fixed by backing up and taking a different line.

I`m really pleased with the way it has allready performed and cant wait to see how it will run when the rest of my gear gets here. I`ll post up some pic pretty quick.

Airborne, heres a good link to building links. This is how I built mine. My new links are quite a bit longer than what you see in the pics here.

http://rccrawler.com/links2.htm

Finally got some pics done. Just impatiently waiting for the Shocks and Tires to arrive and it`ll be done. Heres how it look so far....






Skidplate

Skidplate on

Skidplate off (it makes a huge difference. Anything my belly does hit, it just slides right over it.


Annnnd the mandatory flex shot.

WOW !!!! I LIKE IT !!! Thats kinda what I have had in mind for my "compitition crawler" I am working on. Your work is AWSOME!!! What is your wheel base on that rig?

ARC .. I congratulated you for your very good work.

I like the position of the battery and the anchorages are well built ..

GOOD JOB

Thanks guys.
The wheelbase is 14 inches with 3 inches of clearance at the belly and 2 inches under the diffs. It weighs 5 lbs

These show the Diff clearance a little better.