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1:10 "Blue Streak" Monster Truck & Aflac "Monster Tires" Car

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Posted February 11, 2009 12:44 AM





DURATRAX Shock Rear Assembled Evader EXT

This is a pair of replacement Assembled Rear Shocks for the
Duratrax Evader EXT - DTXC8972*.

FEATURES: Plastic construction, grey in color
Factory assembled and ready to install (oil is filled)
Replaces worn or damaged rear shocks

INCLUDES: Two Factory Assembled Rear Shocks

SPECS: Length: 4.5" (114mm)


http://www.hobbysuperstore.com/browse.cfm/4,94897.html

*the link takes you to the front shocks... you want the rear shocks using the mfr. code above!!! They come as seen above, in a package of a pair for left and right. You'll be needing 2 pair, so you'll need to order 2 packages. This is where my hobby shop screwed me, so make sure you get 2 pacakges and not 1!!!
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Posted February 11, 2009 12:52 AM


Originally posted by THErcnoobie:
thankyou for this criticak info. this will make my purchase at the hobby store much more better. i think i will buy them by next week. this week i save dinero and next week i buy on maybe perhaps monday.now i got some real thinking to do. meanwhile i will finish another rc project. my 1:6 navigator. i started it, painted some of it and then rockcrawling came along and i lost interest in the navigator. its been sitting in the back yard for about a year now.
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Posted February 11, 2009 12:54 AM



Let us know how that goes for you. If the order takes any more than 4 business days to get to you, the hobby shop screwed over your order. Keep on them like I had to do.

Did you take a look at the tamiya jump fest on the previous page?
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Posted February 11, 2009 12:58 AM


Originally posted by THErcnoobie:
Originally posted by KE4QPF:
Let us know how that goes for you. If the order takes any more than 4 business days to get to you, the hobby shop screwed over your order. Keep on them like I had to do.

Did you take a look at the tamiya jump fest on the previous page?
oh yeah i saw that. if only all members on this forum lived in the same area and we had a get together like that it would be awesome. i could see it already blue streak jumping over all these slow rock crawlers we have. but im not sure if it would make it across with loulou's and NAT's big 1:6 scale in the way.lol, i think it would make it across. hopefuly it would not land like that mini coupe. im suprised that the body didnt break. oh also in this video i found out where wheely king got its name.
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Posted February 11, 2009 01:08 AM



Yeah... Nat found some good stuff for us. The one thing we did note though about the Mini and several other drivers going over those ramps was that they all let off the throttle while in the air. BAD MOVE!!! You always stay on the throttle in the air so when you land the truck goes into a natural wheel stand and then you let out of the throttle to plant the front end back onto the ground. In the Dukes of Hazard series and movie, they actually added bags of concrete to the trunk of the General Lee to keep it from nosing over on the landings.
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Posted February 11, 2009 01:14 AM


Originally posted by THErcnoobie:
and they call them selfs professionals, eh. looks like this video proved them wrong in the driving skills section. i just got an idea. i got the rear axcel/ gear box of a 1:12 2wd hummer i got. i figure i take it out and stick it inside my fj and make a winch. i think i wil do that when i have free time. i have alot of space inside the fj since the body is tall and hallow.
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Posted February 11, 2009 01:17 AM


Originally posted by THErcnoobie:
Originally posted by KE4QPF:
Yeah... Nat found some good stuff for us. The one thing we did note though about the Mini and several other drivers going over those ramps was that they all let off the throttle while in the air. BAD MOVE!!! You always stay on the throttle in the air so when you land the truck goes into a natural wheel stand and then you let out of the throttle to plant the front end back onto the ground. In the Dukes of Hazard series and movie, they actually added bags of concrete to the trunk of the General Lee to keep it from nosing over on the landings.
off topic but this has something to do with the general lee concrete bags.

my friend has a lowrider. he did the same method but for a different reason. his car is a two door which makes it too small to do three wheel motion. but that was all solved when sandbags were added in the back corners of the trunk. the wieght pulled the rear down making it able to three wheel.
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Posted February 11, 2009 01:23 AM


Yep... it's all about weight transfer... just like a tractor pull:



It's almost 1:30am here... gotta wake up at 7am. I'm outie for now!
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Posted February 11, 2009 07:36 PM


That's some funny stuff there, Nat. I had to return one of my shocks to the hobby shop today as it was leaking. The manager was cool and swapped it out for me. They think it's a defect from the factory because the oil was leaking from the seal around where the piston moves in and out. The other 3 seemed fine and had no issues. At least they're helping me out.

Can't wait to get my ramp! I want to see this thing take a jump! Now that the shock situation is squared away, here's what the truck can do now that it wasn't able to before all the mods I did...

1) Go through grass

2) Turn 360 degrees in a single car lane on the road

3) Light up with headlights, taillights, Blue Streak light, reverse lights

4) Travel at double to triple the stock speed

5) Charge batteries in 4 hours instead of 8 and nearly last for 6.

6) Pull body pins out with little effort

7) Not worry about breaking the antenna straw when rolling over

8) Keep a stock-looking appearence wile modding everything... most mods in this forum involve slicing and dicing the truck up


Issues yet to think about...

1) Larger motor... but right now the ESC is having a bit of trouble keeping up with the steering at the speed this thing is going

2) 50MHz Ham Radio receiver... I'm looking at the prices and they cost as much as the truck

3) Better body pin towers... have considered this before and passed on... might give it another thought

4) Roller bearings for the front tires (Nat, Red, either of you have a status report???)

5) Bigger tires, but Nat said it's a Royal P.I.T.A. to mod the stock ones, so I'm not sure if I should stay or play!?!?

6) If I can keep the thing off its roof, some wig-wag LEDs or a police blue light bar with animated patterns

7) Better cow catchers in the front and the back... the shocks now situate them so they're positioned with their fronts more toward the ground to prevent bounce ups from hitting the truck

8) Possibly some shock towers to run both A-frame shocks and angle shocks!?!? Not quite sure if this would make much of a difference!?!?

9) What I'm going to do with all of these spring shock parts I have collecting dust now???

10) Will I continue to mod the truck, or move on to something like a 1:6 Scale or Nitro!?!?


I think that's about it.
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Posted February 11, 2009 08:10 PM


Originally posted by THErcnoobie:
wow, thats a pretty big list there my friend. a big list equals alot of money but a better toy. maybe it will be soon you move up to a 1:6 scale but they are hard to find so its gonna be some time before you find one, but that would be interesting.
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Posted February 11, 2009 09:24 PM



Originally posted by yaleforscale:
yes i piped this to my brother inlaws laptop , ..i had to point out to him that the truck is electric , the guy thought it was nitro .lol . truth ,
Looks like we fooled him!
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Posted February 13, 2009 09:53 AM


Originally posted by yaleforscale:
yes we fooled him ,don lol. sorry about the leaking shock but it does happen from time to time , i think i read about the duretraxx shocks on r/c universe there seems to be a fault with the seals ,you may whant to consider replacing all the seals , .. you have a impressive list of mods there don , first of i wouldent consider nitro , i have these and they spend a lot of down time .and are very difficult to keep running iam currently in the process of converting a nitro bugy to electric brushles power for the reason stated above ,.. the tiers for your truck i would look into the wheely king they are 2.2 and have a larger profile , and width . the electronics , if your happy with your set up stay with it other than that the only choice is hobby grade conversion . this will allow a bigger motor to be run and also a hobby grade servo , there realy is no substitute ,for these other than hobby grade and the difference is night and day ,..the bearings would be a great upgrade and needed if a bigger motor was to be installed , but as of yet no one has posted the sizes of these bushings , so i can not imform the supplier . thanks don ,,
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Posted February 14, 2009 10:29 AM


Oirginally posted by yaleforscale:
hi don , you may whant to think about this babie in your truck smaller can size than stock , and not much amp draw , for your esc , look at the rpm rate WOWWEE.... http://www.atomicmods.com/Products/A...or__13510.aspx
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Posted February 15, 2009 09:15 AM


You weren't lying about the RPMs.



Wattage isn't too bad, but you'll need quite a bit of voltage to get there... not something to be put into a 6.0V to 7.2V rig... I'd only use it for 9.6V - 12.0V!!!



Torque kind of sucks over time, but I believe this thing was meant for speed more than torque... good for a dragster!!!



But here's the real proof in the pudding... it's super efficient with the power it consumes:



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Posted February 15, 2009 09:22 AM


Originally posted by yaleforscale:
yes it does have a good amount of speed ,don you would need to go to a lower pinion i think to get the tourqe factor back , but it is a possible replacment motor , no dought there are other out there to . good graphs don, cheers bro .
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Posted February 15, 2009 09:36 AM



Before I put her in, I'm sure we'll have to discuss the steel roller bearing to replace the plastic bushings. That's probably going to be a real amount of fun! Not quite sure how to measure these up for you, but I'm sure I can find a metric ruler or tape measure around these United States somewhere.
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Posted February 15, 2009 10:09 AM


Originally posted by yaleforscale:
Originally posted by KE4QPF:
Before I put her in, I'm sure we'll have to discuss the steel roller bearing to replace the plastic bushings. That's probably going to be a real amount of fun! Not quite sure how to measure these up for you, but I'm sure I can find a metric ruler or tape measure around these United States somewhere.
i understand don. any size will do i will do the conversion for over here or at least r/c bearings will .lol.
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Posted February 15, 2009 01:53 PM


OK guys... the ramp is only 100 miles away!!! Here's the tracking from Wal-Mart.com:



Track Your Site to Store Order:

Your Site to Store order is on time and should arrive between Thursday, 02/19/2009 and Wednesday, 02/25/2009.

Items in this package:
1 Mike McGill Air Speed Large Ramp

Tracking Details...

Location, Date, Local Time, Status :

Ft. Pierce, FL 02/15/2009 08:05 AM Arrived at Delivery Facility

Laurens, SC 02/13/2009 07:32 AM In Transit to Delivery Facility

Laurens, SC 02/13/2009 03:23 AM Arrived at Sorting Facility

Tracking details were last updated on 02/15/2009 at 08:29 AM, Central Standard Time.
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Posted February 15, 2009 04:15 PM


People were wondering what kind of gears the rear end of the 1:10 Monster Truck has... here you go:



The motor is a custom built New Bright 280 Silver Can.
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Posted February 15, 2009 04:28 PM


Originally posted by texx:
THANK .. KE4QPF ..
For this pic of your gear ..
How much gear in the diff ?
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Posted February 15, 2009 04:54 PM



It's a locked diff. straight to the axle... no independence there... there's the pinion (not shown), and one extra gear that's located in the top piece that transfers the power from the pinion (not shown) to what you see pictured. It has acceptor teeth on one side for the pinion and is fused to another gear that goes down into the setup pictured. So, if counting, there are 4 gears (5 if you count the fused ones separately) and 1 pinion.
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Posted February 15, 2009 04:56 PM



Oiringally posted by texx:
Originally posted by KE4QPF:
It's a locked diff. straight to the axle... no independence there... there's the pinion (not shown), and one extra gear that's located in the top piece that transfers the power from the pinion (not shown) to what you see pictured. It has acceptor teeth on one side for the pinion and is fused to another gear that goes down into the setup pictured. So, if counting, there are 4 gears (5 if you count the fused ones separately) and 1 pinion.
very cool no need for a 4th gear mod here then don .lol..
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Posted February 15, 2009 04:59 PM


Originally posted by yaleforscale:
yes i can see it now steel roller bearings in . chili mod motor , hurtling down florida on its two back wheels , with lights blazing what a sight that would be .. [8D]
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Posted February 15, 2009 05:00 PM



Basically, here's the way they're stacked...

Pinion > Fused gear (teeth for pinion on one side fused to step up gear on other) > Fused gear #2 (teeth for the step up gear on one side fused to teeth for the axle gear on the other [pictured]) > Axle Gear (single gear transferring power directly to the axle [pictured])

This thing isn't in any fear of falling apart gear wise.
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Posted February 15, 2009 05:05 PM


Originally posted by yaleforscale:
yes good and strong ,this monster is ,don ,

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