kpopRC was and is a huge inspiration on why we make videos. Check out kpopRC for some cool builds and RC content. He is the reason I will have a 1/5 scale RC very soon. Check out his youtube channel here ru-vid.com come hang on a tall can Tuesday and show some love. I am struggling with gluing the plastic dowels and have a epoxy/glue showdown happening as we speak. My other option is to get a cheap welder and do the cage in metal. This idea is appealing and not. The weight of a full metal cage is not my idea of performance, I might just remake it out of the wood dowel and do a smoking paintjob on it because even with just the wood dowel the cage adds so much rigidity its crazy. Hit that like and subscribe for more RC builds and content.
I know it's not your style but could you take that body and put it on a redcat Impala or monte carlo chassis and body drop it and make it lay body and do like a hydro chassis for it
Me too man, appreciate the support. I will be on tomorrow morning to watch the premier hope you can find the time to watch it live and jump into the chat.
Awesome project, and great presentation. I had similar frustration trying to bond an ABS kit. Finally gave in and used an ABS specific glue. Problems solved.
Great tips, I just picked up a plastic specific eboxy made for this type of plastic. Great points and a huge oversight on my part not doing my research on such an important part of the build. Thanks for watching.
@@extec101 I don't think people understand the abuse this truck is going to be put through, in my experience a flexible adhesive is necessary for jumping and high speed crashes, Model glue, CA, epoxy and other plastic/model specific glue simply are not flexible enough to hold up in this application from my experience but we are going to find out. Thanks for watching
Oh yeah, and as you were saying that about staring at projects I was doing that very thing with my Phoenix. It’s all built and running but wheel and tire choices and the color to boot. I’m stuck on stupid right now cause can’t think of anything but doing her some severe weathering is what would make sense. You’re build is sick sumpin fierce. What color are you hittin her up with
@@kravenkrawlhobby5438 I have always wanted to do some weather would be cool. I am stuck on doing white fiberglass on a primer cab and bed with some bondo or doing a gloss as a mofo paintjob and making it all match, just don't, guess your going to have to stay tuned to find out huh, lol thanks for watching bro, peace.
Very nice Projekt... I built my self one too... Just the painting was over 18 hours of work! ANd on the second run I broke the body.... hate my life XD I was so dumm, I said to my self, no running on Pavment, second run I have to get back to my Car, too drive home, a littel road, I just wanne to drain the batterie a littel bit... send it to hard, got grip whit the rear tires on Gras, and then it rolled badly..... man I could cry in that moment, but I think that´s part of it.
Go to ur auto parts store. Get some JB weld putty for ur doors. U can also use it to form fender flares scoops or whatever. And it sandable. I think u will find it very useful to the hobby. And they have different kinds that will bond to anything.
Release agent from the mold will leave a residue on and in the plastic. Clean with a plastic safe solvent, heat to release from inside plastic and clean again. Then rough up with course paper and apply epoxy. Do this on both parts.
I love my km3's on my 10.3. This whole build was just awesome. One day it would be great to do a build based on what you do. Even work with you to do a build. Love your style.
@@DoubleClutchProductions I swapped it back to 4link cause i didnt know what sway bar to go with. Although its not a challenge to go back to trailing arms on e i find one that fits. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LlYoqZEMe5Y.html
On plastic bodies that are ABS I have used abs glue. Sand parts and clean Properly. I have had good results. For a good joint with the same prep, and a more flexible result I am all about shoe goo. Your project is turning out killer!! 👍👍🤙
It was def an oversight on my part. I didnt prep the parts very good and used a cheapo non plastic specific epoxy. Great info and at least we are learning something. Thanks for watching.
Had this video recommended to me and binged the whole series from the beginning. Your work is inspiring and I can't wait for the next update and future builds!!
you will have the same issue with shoe goo. i would use JB weld. my go to for everything. you have to sand the areas. but yes, as soon as you hit and jump they will come off.
@@DoubleClutchProductions Thats how I do everything. Sometimes it works, sometimes my trip is cut short and its back to the drawing board. Im ready for some running videos my man!
@@DoubleClutchProductions My vote is for a Losi Baja Rey, but done with a more scale body. That way the suspension is already completed for you and parts will be available.
Cool cage! I think it just needs 4-5 more bars. At the door the bottom bar at the floorboard. Maybe start in the middle and go at an angle up to about where the door lock is at the window and that would allow a person to still step in and set down. And maybe 2 short bars under the back side windows level from front to back. Then on the roof, 1 from front corner on the driver side at an angle to the back corner on the passenger side
I did that and more. Did you see the other parts to this series? I go into good detail about we modified the universals and running an empty front diff to keep the sprung weight to a minimum up front. We did a lot more than remove the front drive shaft. Thanks for watching. 🤟
Looks great man I admit tho if it were mine first thing I'd drop is that horrendous low sitting IFS, I mean I get it on a fast racing type short course or stadium truck but definitely has no place on a Crawler.. Sweet vid
This isn't a crawler it's a prerunner? Maybe I should go into what prerunners are in the next part? I agree if it was a crawler I would put the solid axle back in it and ditch the trailing arms 🤟 thanks for watching
@@DoubleClutchProductions Oh ok I gotcha Brotha on what a Pre-runner is, (basically a scout vehicle) pre-runs the course before an actual race, I never heard you mention that so my bad, looked like a Gatekeeper (crawler chassis) so I assumed you were going the crawler route!! I gotcha it looks sick Bro & makes sense now!! 🤟🏽 ps I randomly found this video I didn't realize you had an entire build series going, maybe had I watched them all I would of realized. so my bad
@@ConditionZero76 lol heck yah. It might make more sense seeing the other parts. Just thought the title was enough 2wd prerunner? Appreciate your interest. 🤟
Sounds like a cool project. Glad you can get some inspiration from our builds, inspiring viewers is what makes creating content fun, thanks for watching
Idea i was thing of was to use tmaxx tierods for the rear arms then mount to to stock rear shock location . For the front end. Use may be 1/16 traxxas cars front arms buck head would have to naroww. Some
It was scuffed and washed prior to epoxy. I used this same epoxy on a Tamiya body with no issues but still epoxy shouldn't snap clean off of plastic regardless of the prep right?
I think I would have used some kind of glue for the fender flares and clamped them down instead of screws to make it look a little more scale. But don't get me wrong this is just suggestions. The builds is cool. I'm just throwing ideas at u.👍 I'm a sub now and look forward to more videos from ur channel
Thanks for the support man, I want these to be replaceable for when I trash em from crashing, roost, sand blast and if glued its a one and done nah im saying, thanks for watching. Close to posting part 5
Hell yeah bro I look at builds, visualize what I want, and try different stuff. I don't build as much from scratch as you do but hopefully I work my way there, great job on your 3D printed fender that was awesome just out of your head...👍👍
I haven’t tried it yet but I have plastic epoxy. So maybe there is something about it not liking the plastic. Just found you “new sub” watched all the yota vids and there great can’t wait to see more.
Thanks for following along. I agree with you that I could have used a more plastic specific epoxy but my thinking on moving to shoe goo is flexibility. I have been showing off a Hard Body Bronco build on my Instagram that is a test mule for this rig, everything from shocks, led lights and used shoe goo entirely as a test. We will find out very shortly if it all works. Thanks for watching 🤟
I’m wondering if you rough up the surface of the body if the epoxy would’ve stuck better. But if I were you I would 3d different brackets to go on that hinge and then just use more hardware to mount it
No just washed and scotch brite on the door insert. Been working with plastics for a long time outside of RC and this is still a little strange in my opinion. Never had to use a epoxy primer on plastics before but I am learning hopefully lol. Thanks for watching man. 🤟
Washed with dish soap and light scuffed with scotch brite prior to epoxy. The epoxy I used showed similar bad results on completely different materials too. Thanks for your interest 😎
You have inspired me to build one I have wanted to build one for a long time so thank you also where did you get the bronco body as that's what i would like to build my off
Right on thanks for watching. The bronco was from ebay but was a rc4me 313mm wheelbase 1979 Bronco Hard Body. The traxxas TRX Bronco body is identical but lexan. 🤟 appreciate your support and good luck with your project
Epoxy really is not suitable for almost all plastics. you can make it stick a bit by "keying" (roughing with something like 120p sandpaper) the surface to give it something to hold onto but even then it's a poor bond. CA glue is likely a better adhesive in this instance. Shoe-goo is however possibly the worst thing you could use.
Just following the directions, CA might be the worst to use because it has almost no flexibility and one big crash and it will crack as the body bends and the CA doesnt. I used shoe goo to build an entire hard body prerunners bronco and its holding up great so we will find out. Thanks for watching
@@DoubleClutchProductions for your front lower control arms, reverse how they are mounted to the caster block. Would give you more ground clearance but also look more like a trophy truck. They usually mount the the lower arm at the center of the wheel on the hub. I'm just not sure how it would affect your geometry might have to add washers to extend the length of the arm.
Ha thanks man. The baja reys are my favorite trucks. I got a new project using a baja Rey that is going to be cool. I have been scouting my local dunes planning to do videos with both of my baja trucks and hope to have a bunch of running videos very soon. This channel is all about the Baja Rey so stay tuned and thanks for the support. 🤟
@@DoubleClutchProductions This enduro is cool too, but I can’t wait to see more on the Rey’s… still waiting 8 months for the dual UDR shock drop tests lol
@@DoubleClutchProductions I can’t wait for some inspiration!! … nprc has been my focus lately. All I’ve done with the BR is collect the recommended upgrades lol
@@DoubleClutchProductions yep but you don't need this to flex. On Lexan, sure those work great, but you want this part to not fail and shoogoo and e600 are not the best. MEK will bind the styrene part like an it came out of the mold as a single peice.
JB is my preferred but I don't think epoxy is flexible enough for how much this body flexes. I would use JB plastic weld when I build the next one. Thanks for watching
Also if ya wanna check out some sick 24 scale tires I got coming in!! And yea I stare at my rc just like that!! Excitement and letting the excitement build up!! The your wheel and tire combo are super sick!! Yo check out my video coming up I think you will like the tires I got and your gonna love the price I got them at!! MTRC CRAWLER that’s me bro!! Thanks
thats not a hard body, they are just toyota pick ups or hilux's man, the nissan trucks like the d20 or d21 are called hard bodys. cant believe you got 4 videos on this and no one has said a word, just really drives the point home that rc/scale guys are NOT car guys