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Old 04-04-2014, 02:03 PM
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SyCo_VeNoM
 
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Well here we go pictures to date
Here is how I'm hooking the rear axle to the middle(along with 2 of the shocks that I was using to judge the height of them)

As you can see I went on the inside for the rear axle to the middle so it(as I said in the last post) would not not hit the ball end infront of it. I used longer screws so a teeny bit would come out the other side so it would retain some of the strength as being held on by one side I thought would be a tad weak.
I also took off the home made links, and went back to the stock WK plastic parts as you also see.

Now to the front axle I mounted up the level 3 servo mount kit, and made the linkage.

I'm not 100% happy yet with it as I gotta still take a bit off the arm that connects to the servo as it doesn't center when the servo saver is centered, but hey I think its pretty damn close for eyeballing it

As for why I said I need to cut the body in half, and extend it here is how it looks with the cab sitting on the front axles...

Yea its way too narrow for a scale build, and needs like 4 inches added on for the tires to sit under the body... Now if I was going for more of a MT build it would have been fine . I also think I will also cut the window section out completely, and make the cab more square like in the pic I have in the 1st post while I'm at it as I doubt it would add any more difficulty then widening the body is already is adding.

Next step which I think I need to do (won't be till Tuesday or Wednesday) I'm going to take te rail off my SCX10 trace it, and extend it as I now know where the rear axle will sit exactly, then figure out some way to do the triangular linkage pieces(might cut them out of scrap delrin)
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