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  1. z3_2drive
    replace the front shocks with the stiff yellow ones, and, if you remove for weight, it's reducing the functionality by a lot, and it looks so interesting right now...
  2. z3_2drive
    I like your idea! But I'm keeping mine...if I even finish. Need to make a BL order, and I've had my eyes on this for a while...
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    I also made this odd mod of the 8466 chassis...It was one of my first technic models so I had few technic parts and decided to make an interesting body by hand... it was supposed to be a model of this: so I got some paper and markers, plus an angle-connector skeleton, and got this: not custom parts but a not-fully lego MOC
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    I once cut some flex axles because I accidentally bought ones 2 studs too long, and didnt have the patience to make another order.
  5. z3_2drive
    haha the truck has 'LEET' weight great MOC
  6. z3_2drive
    like I said on youtube, amazing truck, and the need for parts like this: is now very urgent... I like the shifting mechanism especially, I may do a bit of re-designing and try using a servo, but for now I need to make a BL order EDIT: you never showed it in 4th gear...too fast?
  7. z3_2drive
    brake* ? interesting idea
  8. z3_2drive
    but he joined in 08 agreed that's a nice collection!
  9. z3_2drive
    i've broken u-joints, ground gear teeth, and scratched panels/liftarms on the bottom of my MOCS, but it's all good fun and easy to replace...or leave scratched pieces and re-use them to show off your 'battle scars' only pricey parts I've rendered useless are the 3l differential cases which I don't have too many of and are pretty expensive if you keep buying them.
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    watching the video right now! first viewer FTW
  11. z3_2drive
    a new line of radio control receivers to replace older ones-with more efficient/smaller electronics, because IR-not so good-it's caused me to spend lots of time rebuilding the whole front end of a car due to signal loss on multiple occasions even inside the house...
  12. z3_2drive
    ah was about to ask... anyway the truck looks huge. does it perform well considering only 2 motors for such a large truck? or does it have lots of reduction in the lower gear?
  13. z3_2drive
    the link on the top of the shocks is just to keep the shocks from coming off the chassis, while letting them move independently at the same time In fact, I decided to use that for the current crawler-here's a photo of the shock setup plus some extra bracing on the axle: Really like these tires, but they could use some larger treads/knobs whatever you want to call them
  14. z3_2drive
    because when they are rectangular they are parallel-so they are not acting against eachother, which allows the bad side to side movement. And yes but shock absorbers can be placed many different ways to offer different degrees of articulation, check out this topic of mine to see a high articulation setup: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=72695&hl=
  15. z3_2drive
    on a 4 link setup-well-on any suspension-all forces acting on the axle have to be equal in order to keep it in place-normally called 'triangulated 4-link' but this is only to keep the axle from moving side-to-side, which is a bad thing for a crawler. Here is a real-life example: And the reson for having two pairs is if there were only one, the axle would become extremely unstable and rotating up and down...it would look something like this -the second pair equals out the forces keeping the whole axle stable-and that no-shock absorber crawler is stupid IMO, it can easily roll over and driveshafts can pop out if his geometry is not perfect. It can get complicated with lots of terms and hard to explain through text, maybe andy can give a bit more insight.
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    interesting, I always enjoy watching videos of those rock buggies, especially Tim Cameron. I wonder if buggy motors could deliver enough torque without too much gear reduction that makes it soo slow... but I' sure it'll turn out great, good luck!
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    sounds promising-will it be more of a trial truck than a crawler?hey Andy, I fixed the triangulation! was very easy and actually offered another strengthening point in the middle Pic-
  18. z3_2drive
    haha I know, but the way I situated the links may need some work, I was trying to finish quickly, and I also was thinking about your KOTH crawler while building this
  19. z3_2drive
    well, I did build it all in a couple hours and there was a lot of half stud offsets to deal with, but actually, it's much stronger than it looks and of course i'll make changes in the future but I'm leaving the main structure as it is because it's strong and it works. And Tim, that idea looks very interesting and if I find this does not have enough torque in the end i'll switch to it-BUT it makes the wheelbase 4 studs longer and I dont really want that...
  20. z3_2drive
    Well, some time has passed and I played around with some ideas and eventually decided on using the output selector gearbox by Sariel. So after building yesterday evening and this morning I finally got a half-chassis connected to the rear axle, along with a fully remote controlled shifter using mini LA's. pics:
  21. z3_2drive
    was wondering why there wasnt any posts about this, I saw it and it looks/works great!
  22. z3_2drive
    or looking out for the mythical sea-hamster great MOC
  23. z3_2drive
    I like the placement of the receivers to look like a toolbox
  24. z3_2drive
    It shakes because it is too soft-it sways. If he made it softer it would sway too much to one side and fall over, like at the end of the video.
  25. z3_2drive
    awesome, one of the best climbs I've seen-similar to ones by Marcelo Raus.
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