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Well, ive always been a fan of those fancy german Table top trucks (TTT) and ive tried my hand at them a few times but those U joints are just so darn small. I figured i would start with a slightly larger scale to get the hang of things and then if this works correctly im going to try an epoch sized stadium truck/buggy with full suspension and so on.

Anyways, here is what ive been working on:

I used the rear gear section from a broken xmod for my starting place. I then built some arms and U joints, mounted it all together (way over simplified, ill let the pictures speak for themselves) and so far i have one side just about finished. That upper control arm needs to be replaced with an adjustable one (the one there is just to hold it up) and i still need shocks but thats an easy fix.

I had to make the U joint shaft expandable so that it would expand with the articulation of the suspension arm. It took me a while to figure out how exactly to do that but it worked out very well. I hooked the motor up to a working power source and the joints work flawlessly through the entire range of motion, im quite happy with how its working so far although it may not hold up to a ton of abuse.

anyways, enough of my talking, here are some shots of what i have finished so far:




and this is just to show how much clearance it has ( resting on a bashed xmod) and to show how much smaller it is compaired to my Mini T stadium truck,, not as small as my next one will be but im working my way down the scale.


Hope you like it and any comments would be great,

Thanks

STG

That's pretty fuckin cool. I like that approach of trying it out on a larger scale to get a complete understanding of how the engineering functions so you can design the smaller one better.

hot damn! that thing is purdy those wheels are cool looking too. any idea for a body? i was just at the mall and saw all of their diecast dub cars n whatnot but what caught my eye was a xmods wheelbased humvee with a plastic body all except front bumper. humvee would be pimp

Sadly...its not a Xmod truck..why? Beacasue your not really going to use much of the Xmod I think you should make a stadium truck out of scratch as what you have there is some niiiice work...

Excellant work and I 'm jealous

I think im going to end up using my spair kyosho overland humvee body for this one but i cant say for sure.

Its going to end up being more xmod than you think. Im still using the xmod electronics, the rear section, the motor, and the xmod chassis (as far as the plan goes now) so its actualy mostly an xmod with a modified suspension. At the moment i have it in parts so its easier to work with

Its of course still a work in progress, Its taken me a good 3 days of spair time to get this far so its a long ways off. The front end wont have the drive shafts but the steering is going to be just as complicated to fabricate so we will see.

STG

live up to your name and make it an Explorer Sport Trac
just a suggestion, nice work, gotta try that sometime

ah now i see why u have the extra hole there, the damper i was wonderin y u had a hole in the middle of nowhere. but wont u need a way bigger shock due to more travel?

edit: also it looks like ur wheel has some mad camber

Yeah, that wheel looks like it has that mad camber because it does lol. That upper support (the one with the hole for the shock at the end of it) is just for the mock-up and it isnt the correct length so its throwing the camber way off. i was just using it to test everything..Ill make an adjustable one later on. Ive also decided that mounting the shocks in the stock place with that upper arm isnt going to give me much travel at all so ill do something else with that as well.

Id use a sport trac body in a heart beat if i could find a nice light plastic one but sadly to say they are really hard to come by,, if anyone has one sitting around or knows where to get one ill gladly buy or trade for it but i have a bad feeling that they are in short supply...i have one for my overland but i cant seem to find that model anymore

Anyways, thanks and keep the comments comming

STG

well the only words that come to mind are FREAKING GENIUS

Schweet!!! Awesome engineering, man. Perhaps you can come up with a cantilever(sp?) damper design to increase shock travel.

ok, its been a while since my last post,, ive been moving into a new apartment and i just got my internet working after 3 weeks or so.

Anyways, i decided to scrap the first xmod stadium truck and came up with this: Every part you see here has been made from "Junk" and scraps just laying around. I made the clear chassis from a zz box and heated it up to bend the sides and front, i used brass and aluminum pieces to construct all of the expandable drive shafts and the mounts for them. the shocks are from an overland, the wheels are xmod, the tires are lego and the other plastic and gears are just junk i had sitting around (i think the gears came from a pull back toy of some sort,, Of course its not anywhere near done but i thought i would get some more recent pics up,, enjoy



STG

what are you gonna do with the other stadium truck?

well, if you are talking about that silver mini T up top i just spent $100+ on her tonight. Purchased a new motor and a custom 8.4volt battery pack,,,She should be running a little quicker soon.

if you are talking about my first "xmod" stadium truck,, its scrap at the moment,, i didnt have the patience to keep working on it after starting this project...its been a solid 2 weeks in the making and as you can see i still have alot of work to do on it but its coming along nicely...I also was able to get my hands on a plastic vacuum mold so im going to make a model of the stadium truck i want and im going to make a body from scratch,, to keep with the theme ( i hope)

STG

fuck me! that's impressive!