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ORIGINAL: YZ250Fcaptain
............ stuff i have to create a nitro crawler without spending.........

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ORIGINAL: Fr33ze

I converted my (4wd) t-maxx to electric, locked the a-arms using short turnbuckles from spair parts, seperated the bulks from the chassis, cut it back flush with the old steering servo hole (aprox 3" , and installed front and rear 4 link suspention, I used spair tmaxx steering turnbuckles for lower links and rc10 steering links for the uppers, replaced the 32 pitch sper for a 48p stampede sper, 2.5 tmaxx axleshafts where used for drive shafts, a 4" long piece of 3" aluminum angle for a motor mount, I even made a reduction gear out of a sper/input shaft/and input gear from a stampede and leftover 3" aluminum angle. Installing the steering servo and linkage was the toughest. I bolted the servos on the top left a-arm with the servo horn inside the the hole in the upper arm that the shock use to go through, makes a nice guard. The back of the bulkhead needed to be trimmed back to the diff for the steering cross bar to clear, and it to is protected from hang-ups. I also installed one of thows ebay tube roll bar cages to mount the shocks and for a little realism.

The only thing I needed to buy where the 3 aluminum linkage bars for the steering and the 12" long piece of 3" aluminum angle... $10!

Everything else was on hand or donated from other rigs, lol.

The really nice thing I found with modded maxx axles compaired to regular solid axles is I get huge clearance at the diff since I can adjust the center axle hight using the turnbuckles I installed on the a-arms.

I wish I could upload pics but dialup where I am is 28.8kbps wich is really lame... However, I might be able to in a week or two when I go to the city.

Im by far not the first to mod a maxx for crawling, theres crawler sites with actuall write-ups to do it yourself. However I diddnt copy anyones setup, I diddnt use the stock shock tower to lock the a-arms, I chopped it off clean, and my servo is off center, and my batts all mount on the axles. I needed to install two hump-packs hooked in parallel to run the reciever and JR125MG servos.

My next one is gonna be made from an E-maxx, it looks like a cleaner platform to work on vs the T-maxx.