Mechbuilds

Life can be hard in troll-land. But that's nice of him to release hes autobiography.

Here's an axle i made for my crawler: Has extremely high steering angle and driven wheels. Works with @filsawgood's chassis design. The axle has minor bending (camber) if you put heavy load on top but it works and crawls respectably for it's size.

Smart people search from whom they're buying from.. If we make threads titled this guy and talk crap about him, maybe it'll bring awareness.

Here's an .LXF of the whole moc currently: Rear axle + chassis If anybody can figure out an front axle that has okay steering angle and at least close to the flex that the rear axle has then please help if you can! I really want to finish this moc and offroad it.

Awesome!

I just can't figure out what kind of front axle to do so i get better steering.. For now, it seems that i have to either settle with rear wheel drive good steering or 4 wheel drive but bad steering.. I might do a completely different front axle all together with less flex than the rear if i can just get more steering angle so the thing can actually turn without going back and fourth 6 times to turn 90 degrees.

And use direct current instead of alternating current.. 9v DC is quite different than 9v AC.

But he has a point... Think about it logically.

It does work for the axle i posted earlier. Lots of sideways flex and a little bit of up and down flex. Only problem i have with the previous axle i've shown was the terrible turning radius.

Here is my frame: The rear axle is complete, the motor and gearbox are all complete. I just didn't bother adding it to the LDD. But yeah, that's how the links are connected and the driveshaft comes from the middle. The springs can be placed wider by removing the 9 long beams and they can be moved 1 stud forward or back. I need a front axle that can fit here.. I already used the @filsawgood's rancher front axle but replaced the 92908's with 11950 instead. The distance between tire to tire needs to be 11 studs (if the tyre is outward or 13 studs if the tyre is inward.) I'm using 86652 wheels with 32019 tires. Can somebody help me make a front axle that has better steering? The front axle i copied from the rancher only turns by one stud. So turning radius is horrible.

Personally, if i figure out something cool, i'd be okay with TLC using my idea to make money. It would be a great honor seeing my own personal moc being sold so everybody could enjoy it. But then again, i don't sell my instructions. I give them out for free. If some chinese knock off company takes my idea and starts making cash with it, fine, i honestly don't care. To me, lego is a hobby. It's a money sink and it makes me happy. If you truly wanted to make a profit with your hobby, then you should try everything you can to be employed by TLC. If you truly are a masterbuilder and your mocs are heaps better than the rest of us then you deserve to be working for lego so the public could get to enjoy your models. But i do agree that what the chinese knock off companies are doing is a shitty and trashy move to make.

Doug showed the exact way to mesh it that i had in my mind.

Currently i have a setup which is basically @filsawgood's modified rancher axles attached to the modified suzuki jimny chassis. It works surprisingly well as an offroad chassis. (it's soft by normal lego standards but for me, i still would like a stud or two more flex.) It has enough flex to raise the front tire on top of the lego technic 6AA battery box while having all 3 other tires on the ground. (And by battery box, i mean that the orange knob is pointing upwards. That kind of flex.) Also the turning angle with the steering servo is awful. I can only fit one turning axle so 4 wheel turning is not an option. This is my front axle: The 3 links and the 2 springs are connected to the chassis. The steering servo BARELY has enough room to fit between the two springs. If anybody knows how to add more cowbell to the steering, i'd appreciate it. I'm also willing to swap the servo to an M motor for better steering control when crawling. (I mean that the whole front axle can be redesigned completely, but the links and shocks need to remain in the same position.) This is going to be a trial truck that can crawl a little.

You could try experimenting with this part: You could get the wormgear meshing perfectly singe according to your MLCAD it's only half a stud too high.

One detail i would add is to remove the ball from the shifter and have it just an axle instead. The ball is too big and messes up the interior. Just an axle would suffice in this application in my opinion. Bonus point for axle with a stop or stud on the end. It looks like an easy detail to do and i would advice to at least consider it. But well done. Great work so far! Can't wait to see it finished.

I'm currently constructing a crawler and after building @filsawgood's Rancher chassis, i was interested in building a better crawler. After doing tests on the chassis, i found out that the suspension needs to be a tad softer for extreme angles.. Then i stumbled on @Madoca 1977's Jeep Wrangler. I don't know what this suspension is called but i like it. I'd like to build a similar chassis, just 2 studs wider and a little bit longer.. I like the fact that the linkage allows the axle to twist like that and achieve better and higher angles. What i'd like to do is add springs to it so the chassis would have up and down suspension while twisting as much as possible.. Also i'd like to get as much as steering angle as possible. All this while having beefy enough front and rear axles that they don't flex or bend due to the weight of the model. I really want this crawler to hug rocks when it climbs. I do have a steering servo now. Should i use motor steering instead to achieve better steering angles and more control? I also don't like the weight of the model resting on a single axle, that's why i use wheel hub assemblies as much as possible.

So many amazing details.

Brilliant work! And you're a true legend for sharing instructions to this behemoth! I love the little detail of using a chain for the cabin tilt mechanism limiter.

That's insane! Great work! The level of detail is stunning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1y0TNEXQrc It seems that he's giving credit to jeroen ottens but still selling the instructions.

https://www.vonado.com/Liebherr-LTM11200-p37096.html This?

Are you planning on making instructions?

Thanks for sharing!

Maybe our standards have become too high.. We can't appreciate a nice clean model without having the urge to cram as many functions as we can into it.

I like the bodywork of this moc. It looks great. What i would do is keep the bodywork as is and start trying to force in more playability.. Like an opening hood with an fake engine inside.. Or maybe the suspensionwork.. It looks greath though. Goodjob!