Home made Crawler III

Model: (Click to see more) 58065: Clod Buster
Status: Extra info
Date: 21-May-2005
Comments: 7
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Another Manta chassis

Got lucky, Apex Models & Modelsport both had Jeep shells in stock, bought 3!
Rebuilt running gear using used tyres, gearboxes and wheels, all stripped down and cleaned
Diffs are locked and full set of bearings fitted in place of kit bushes
Chassis is a 3 off custom job
Side plates, servo mounts and axle bracings were cut by Wijnand/Alu-Cutter from Holland
DuBro ball ends used throughout, even on steering rods
GMade top link mounts
alu axle bracing
Associated battery cups
standard 540 motors
Traxxas Shocks
INET wheel wideners

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Comments

Rothmans Racing Team

22-May-2005

Oh gosh, where does it end? Can you say, 'addiction'? 'Hi. my name is Andy, and I'm addicted to crawlers.' Another nice one mate!

MadMax

22-May-2005

That's 1 sweet ride andy N1.

mikeekim

7-Jan-2008

hi, i just bought a crawler off adam1973, and it appears to be one of your chassis', inparticular this one, which is awesome, but looking at this one the links on mine appear to be the wrong way round??? it doesn't appear to make a difference but just wandering if you ever made them to be fitted this way? and did you only make three of these? nice one Mike

TWINSET

7-Jan-2008

Hey Mike

They are 'wrong' on yours but, between Biggus and I, we came up with that little triangular plate which allows the lower links to run flatter

When it was first built, it stood quite high, as you can see here, so reversing those links and adding the triangles lowered the COG a fair bit

Not sure why there was only 3 though

mikeekim

7-Jan-2008

cool, i'll try them the other way around and when i said only three i meant three of these chassis' you mention in the description 'a 3 off custom job' just wandered how special this chassis is. nice one Mike

TWINSET

7-Jan-2008

I would leave them the wrong way round, it makes the truck less top-heavy

No idea why I only made three, only did 3 of the B³ too

mikeekim

7-Jan-2008

sweet, it does work great as they are at the mo i just need to lock the front diff and it'll be sorted. great work by the way, its a quality piece o kit, good work. cheers mike

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