Picked up a pair of Traxxas TRX4M's a couple months back for me and the kiddo. I figured these would be the best way for me to get back into RC stuff with since they are smaller, inexpensive, slow and have a large and growing catalog of parts. The bigger scale and accuracy sold me on these over the similar Axial offering.
Purchased from a local hobby shop. Got the 2 rigs, AA batteries, 2 spare truck batteries and led light kits for both.
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I'll be interested to hear how they go-I've gotten my kids interested in RC (Lunchbox for them, ECX Circuit with aftermarket BL setup for me), but with space constraints we can only really use them when we go to the beach - something smaller scale could be just the ticket.
solfly
Dork
5/18/23 11:50 a.m.
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Got them out in the snow and mud in the yard a few weeks ago.
solfly
Dork
5/18/23 11:56 a.m.
Took them to a nice rocky lot down the road
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solfly
Dork
5/18/23 12:02 p.m.
First round of upgrades
Steel beadlock wheels with sticky 62mm tires
+2mm hubs
steel high clearance control arms
aluminum transfer case skid plate/control arm mount
Steel long slip drive shafts
LED light bar (I always say lockers before light bars, fortunately these are already locked)
Multi position shock mounts
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solfly
Dork
5/18/23 12:05 p.m.
Defender build 1.0
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This is with everything except the shock mounts and light bar installed, ran out of time that day.
solfly
Dork
5/18/23 12:06 p.m.
Haul;ing rocks for the offroad park.
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solfly
Dork
5/18/23 12:07 p.m.
Shock mounts installed and a bit of lift.
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Testing
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solfly
Dork
5/18/23 12:09 p.m.
Lowered the front end a bit, installed more shims on all four upper control arms to help pinion angle. I had added length to all four rear control arms when I installed them for a tiny bit more wheel base.
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solfly
Dork
5/18/23 12:09 p.m.
Start of the Offroad park
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Median
New Reader
5/18/23 1:58 p.m.
I did not need to see this.
Looks like loads of fun.
Most wheeling I've ever seen you do haha.
Ha! Trying to make up for it in both 1:18 and 1:1!
This might be the motivation I needed to get my SCX10 clone running again.
Roostah
New Reader
6/13/23 11:36 p.m.
preach (dudeist priest) said:
Back in time machine DJ, NEOW is doing it too:
https://www.neow.net/topic/122921-lets-talk-about-jeeps-rc-jeeps/
Hahaha, nice segue...
I just started to get back in to scale RC