Lone-wolf

Looking good stormsy mate just weighed my F-150 and she is 549g this is before i fit the metal gears in transmission

Im very lucky i have a fantastic understanding wife and a decent income to fund my hobby, though i tend to be careful what i spend

Been busy so THE most expensive 1/8 brushed crawler does not have even a hint of grease in the rear axle, and oddly just one rear shock had a preload spacer not the other ! Had the rear axle out and rather than heavy grease i have oiled the internals, better than dry, i have moved the esc/rear shock towers forward to lay the rear shocks down a little (free mod) stripped rear shocks, lubed with green slime grease and fitted a pair of 1mm Orings under each piston all back together and this has had the desired lowering by a couple of mm and fitted high clearance stainless links to rear, still got front to do. I also took tyres of and fitted 60cm of thin solder to each wheel hub, then taped it down, can only help

It looks excellent and im sure it will drive fine but if im brutally honest its not worth the price tag, this is one of the most expensive brushed 1/18th models on the market and i would say its about £60 over priced, but it is licenced by FORD

TRX4m, so i have finally bought a Traxxarse

My Brown one has arrived all seems good so far, it all works and looks nice and scale, already done a little mod, and the front sticker seems pretty straight

looks good, would like to try my Unitrak on it once i have it built and sorted

Nice mate, bit of a rare find and nice looking truck

I do know the Unitrak body is fixed to chassis where as the rock van has a front hinge set up, maybe there are little mount tabs on the unitrak chassis to screw body down as the lipo sits in a tiny box up top behind cab, i do plan to fit a larger box and may end up running a pair of lipo`s in parallel for long run times

I went with SCX24 45mm shocks, seem to remember people on the FB group suggesting them

Not sure but when my Unitrak kit arrives i should be able to answer that for you as i have the rock van the Unitrak kit should be here Tuesday

@Gaz!, you should of got an FMS Chevy lol................ Please can you tell me where you got the side decals for the body they look pretty darn good, but traxxas get a bad mark for the lop sided F O R D sticker on the front of the hood....oops bonnet, if mine is like that it will rattle my OCD

Some swag from Injora....yes i know what i said a while back but i guess they just have the stuff and it arrives fast this is the hop up parts for the Traxxas hi trail 4m F-150, stainless links, 180 48t motor and metal gears at -32% ratio....second order should be here in a couple of days parts for the new build T-Hunter Unitrak kit

last chance before i pull the listing

with drawing this for now, figured if it were to sell it would be gone long time ago

Overdriving the front can be a good asset on a crawler, by underdriving the rear and overdtiving the front this creates a larger over drive ratio, could work very well, the Element enduro models come with 5% front O/D but the parts are supplied to change it to 11% front O/D

coming on well, a sfor body if it were me i would do Jconcepts 51 ford grandma van, i might keep my carisma and do a new same body for that

another option is self adhesive hook an loop velcro, place a strip on lipo and the other strip on chassis plate, quick cheap and simple

My thoughts as well, but seeing this one i will defo be getting the Brown one very soon, Brown just looks more scale

Finally got round to opening up the transmission and diffs on the Element gatekeeper Texan,, all clean and fully greased now, next job is the new cab still a texan power wagon but all new colours

now ordered the FTX Unitrak builders kit, the little unimog along with some bling wheels and tyres plus oil shocks from Injora

So i have ordered a few bits from Injora for the F-150, this means i will be getting it after all this deliberating , i have some plans for shocks/ride height so can any one tell me the shock internal bore size and what diameter the shock piston is please

Go with TRX4 i think some one on here did a build thread and really enjoyed the build

For now gonna just order the brown f-150 and a set of metal links plus crawler gear set, then see how it goes in future, also wanting a hobby plus T hunter kit and some nice upgrades, maybe i can just do both