RC18MT Crawler
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i dont know how good of crawling capabilitys you want but watch this video and decide for yourself if this is what you want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBgKJtgkF3M
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i dont know how good of crawling capabilitys you want but watch this video and decide for yourself if this is what you want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBgKJtgkF3M
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is a solid axel one of those axels which go down from the drive train to the wheel mount thing?? like a normal drive shaft only it bends in two places and is outside of the chassis??
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A solid diff is the outdrives and the outside gear that the driveshaft comes in contact with is completely solid so there aren't gears or balls or anything.A solid diff is the same as a locked diff and is usaully used on a wheely vehicle likes HPI's Wheely King.
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From: kent, UNITED KINGDOM
crawling is more than being able to climb over a carefully arranged sequence of objects.... a solid axle means that you dont have arms in the suspension, the wheels are held rigidly to the gearbox and its the gearbox that moves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_axle
one advantage of solid axle is that the vehicle would act more like a pair of lines, like one line representing the front wheels and another line representing the rear wheels... in an independant suspension setup like what you have in your 18mt, the whole vehicle would hold a rectangular shape and it would not be flexible enough for true rock crawling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_axle
one advantage of solid axle is that the vehicle would act more like a pair of lines, like one line representing the front wheels and another line representing the rear wheels... in an independant suspension setup like what you have in your 18mt, the whole vehicle would hold a rectangular shape and it would not be flexible enough for true rock crawling



]? Oh well I guess I'll stick to dirt off-roading