Drop in crawler motor

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:32 pm

Found this over on scale4x4rc.

http://www.diyminituner.com/servlet/the ... tor/Detail

It's a small gear-motor that has been stuffed inside a 130 motor can. Looks like it drops you to nearly HS-55 speed, without the need to hack stuff up as much.

URL has pics and video.

SHAUN · Post by **SHAUN** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:52 pm

Wow, thats awesome. I really hate you though, now I have to spend more money, and now I have to go through a bunch of boxes to find my crawler project X-mod.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:29 pm

Hum

I do have a x-truck and its already been lifted, + body lifted, articluated, and 4x4'd... then I just got bored and haven't touched it since

maybe a new body, some aluminum shocks, those tamiya tires and of course that motor????

Great find.

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:49 pm

You're welcome Shaun, anything I can do to help.

Sidewinder, who has the aluminum shocks, and are they oily or friction?
Your plan sounds about like my truck: 4x4, suspension lift, remove steering slop, new body...
Now I'm wanting That motor, tamiya or ashoma tires (tamiya sounds easier)

I believe the tires are THESE
Truck tire kit
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wt ... XBFR0&P=SM
But, I also found this
Off-road tire kit
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wt ... XHA14&P=SM

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:36 am

EDIT: I couldn't remember the company I got these from but I found a link to the same springs/shocks from Hobby-Smart. They're not oil and I don't really know that they work that much better but they look cool. That, plus they're cheap enough

Sp anyway here's a link: http://cgi.ebay.com/GPM-Alloy-Front-Rea ... dZViewItem

There are a couple of retailers on ebay that have them...now that I think about it I think I got mine from TheToys.