It's fun watching and listening to you go through almost the exact same reactions as the rest of us summit lovers did the first time we took ours out. Great video!! Love the summit!
out of all the cars i own this is my go to car for holidays , iv had it years , imo the best car Traxxas have ever made all around . ive never changed a thing on it and its never broken 1 part, GREAT CAR
Man brother Geary you just made me want to get one. I’ve have thought about it in the past but after seeing you run it and talk about I’m definitely going to get one. Thanks for sharing brother👍
Great video! Summit is an awesome machine for creeks , rock fields and woods with steep terrain. I personally have the original summit. It doesnt have Lipo cutoff stock like the current summit's. Only issues was 3 Servos and the front diff went out recently after 9 years . Wow time flys bye. Also I am on my 3rd motor but that's to be expected since it spent half it's time in or under the water!
I looked at this and thought I’d like it. It solves the biggest complaint I have with my Son’s Everest. A second gear to go a little faster when you take a break from crawling. Now I’m pretty sure I’m gonna have to get one...
The Traxxas Summit: Jack of all Trades, Master of None. To quote Jang: "The Summit is best at being a Summit." One of my favorite things about the Summit was watching the suspension work over really rough ground while blasting across in high gear. Simply a thing of beauty! 👍
"Jack of all Trades, Master of None." You can say that about most any RC car. If you want to go out for an afternoon with no destination in mind, take the Summit. It's the master at adapting to most any terrain. It's the master of having fun anywhere. Why be the master of one thing, when you can be so damn good at so many.
Fantastic job! You are quickly becoming a favorite of mine on youtube with the quality of work you are putting out now. My summit has always had a special place for me because it is the truck I can take anywhere and do anything with, If I had just one, it would be it; call it my desert island RC. The lights make night driving possible and if you throw a set of chains on those massive tires, it takes to the snow extremely well. The brushed motor is great for creek runs over waterfalls and rocks and the slower gear makes FPV trailing a blast. I have run mine with the Castle MMX and 2200KV motor from the start, the new sensored version is pretty much the best thing that can happen to the summit.
Hi Gary, you haven’t even scratch the surface of the capabilities of the summit, you MUST try it in stupidly-impossible ROUGH terrain and you’ll be amazed! Believe me,I have one for months now and It surprises me every time I take it out!! You must do a full throtle in very rough terrain, yo’ll see ...
I had one before and have been missn it. I know what your feeln when you drive it. And it's awesome. I had a Bigfoot body on mine , lol. Can't wait to see what your take is on it and what you do to it.
I smashed aflat screen TV with my stomach the stomach drove right through the f****** TV it was amazing I didn't think it would that strong but man when I flew that summit down the sidewalk and I hit the TV the TV explode upon impact
A Traxxas Gary likes... and basically a revo no less. Quo the twilight themesong.. Just got into crawling as well. The technical aspect of it is extremely appealing. Maintenance is easy compared to bashing 1/8 monster trucks. Runtime is also ridiculous. I’ve yet to drive my scx10.2 to cutoff.
@@killeroffroadhobbyz Heh, haven't bought myself one yet, but I just watched a brushless upgraded one on Tomley RC, and it looks like big fun! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h8yrHR7pjYU.html
great job mate. one of the few summit vids out there actually describing the low/hi locked and unlocked gears and diffs as you go. thx. how is the summit going and what are your thoughts on it right now? i was set on a yeti xl kit but after hearing so many durability issues with it im thinking about a summit.
Avoid messing with the suspension at all costs! That was one of my mistakes. Stiffening the suspension in any way will put stress on components that were designed to be stress-free in some places because of the jelly shocks. You will snap bulkheads, hubs, & arms in the weirdest places.
The T-Bone Racing chassis skid is nice, but you don't need any of their other stuff, like for the a-arms or their front and rear bumpers, what comes on the truck is more than good enough. Although, if you want to try the stiffer suspension options Hot Racing makes the little cantilever rocker mounts for the push rods which have all 3 stiffness settings where you just have to change where you connect the push rods (otherwise with the Traxxas option you'd have to get 3 separate sets).
That trucks sweet been looking at them a lil pricy though but all my traxxas cost big bucks lol I don't have a crawler yet was thinking about it would this be a good first crawler?
I bought a Axial Bomber for $400 and it has broken so much I had to pump another $250 into it and it still isn’t right. Don’t even feel comfortable driving it. However, a new Summit $475 and will need very very little money to keep it going. More fun too!!!!
Steve Declark Summit is a great crawling and trailing machine, It is almost twice the size of other 1/10 scale crawler. If you are not into true scale crawling, summit can't be beat. Non of the other scale truck have the speed of Summit at second gear. Which is a bonus when you want to bash like where you just saw in this video.
Just want to share some experience on 2065 mini servo with you. One of the tiny gear inside is like a potato chip. If you really have to adjust the spring saver. Do it only when the power is off. The torque with just unscrewing that hex with power on can strip that gear 100%(in my case). I stripped 2 with power on, and 1 with power off . That 1 gear is just that weak and tiny.
Just watched the whole vid! Was easy to see your enthusiasm for the truck! How much life was left in the batteries? What run time do you think you would have gotten if you went the distance on the batteries? Just wondering. Thx!
Get get why you were saying it's better than the Nero but it's honestly not fair to compare the two they are two totally different trucks ment for different things ...now if you threw a brushed setup in the Nero it would probly make a great crawler aswell with a couple changes..but anything with big tires and enough clearance will crawl.. idk I love the looks of the summit but idk I just don't see where it's expressive rig. Maybe it's just the stank of Traxxas over powering the truck lol idk
KillerOffRoadHobbyz I get the similarities but the all lock mode in the Nero was never ment to crawl crawl it was ment to play and get you out if a bad spot the summit is ment to crawl crawl ...thats why I say they two were ment for two totally diff purposes but I do get the comparison
I lucked out big time this morning. I picked up the original Summit this morning (unfortunately, no LVD) for only $60 bucks. Dude threw in 2 extra wheels and a bin full of tools, shock oils and the original manual
hmmm .... i don't think it can compete with Our Cars on any level ... accept maybe side ways stuff , 8:34 ... 9:42 we can do all day Very EASY ... XD ... Too EZ ... hopefully We work with Traxxas oneDay
