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Greetings all,
Thought id do a little write up about my project iv been working on the past couple of weeks, and was hoping some of you savage guru's could tell me what you think?
I started off with a 4 month old savage x 4.6, pretty much stock with the exception of a HPI tuned polished pipe, ss chrome outdrive dogbones, hong nor red clutch shoes with a new 18t clutch bell to get a bit more top end speed and reduce the somewhat annoying tendency to wheelie everytime i touched the throttle, and a 6v hump pack.
It all started when i was looking for a 3 speed gearbox from a new broken up xl on ebay and, well, one thing led to another lol
This was my nearly stock X 4.6.............
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And this is the pretty much finished project, as the final pieces of the puzzle arrived today, my Axial 40 series beadlocks together with a set of proline big joe rubber to wrap around them, also my new k4.6 engine arrived yesterday, pulled from a new ss kit on ebay.
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Il try and take you through the journey of building this truck as best i can, i wish id started this thread at the beggining and added to it as i went along, but never mind, i did take pics as i went but after uploading all the pics off the cam and my phone and viewing all the pics most of them didnt turn out too great, low quality, so il post the best ones.
First things i got was the XL chassis plates, XL s/heavy duty extended axles, XL centre dogbone and drive cup set, ofna throttle/brake linkage kit and sliders, FLM servo mount set (which came with completely the wrong screws lol) x2, i wasnt sure of how id be mounting the servos so i got two sets, and all at a great price from the USA on ebay and an Innovatine RC LST shock kit for x lower arms.
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Next things i got were, an XL 3 speed box, XL s/heavy duty outdrive dogbones and an RPM rc10gt Rx box, again ebay, USA
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Then i fitted the xl tvp's, the 3 speed box, and xl centre dogbones, and turned the fuel inlet banjo round 180degrees for the upcoming mid-tank ;-)
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Then the I-RC shock kit went on and i won two auctions on ebay for a full set of LST XXL shocks, an a new hellfire tank both at an absolute steal of a price, even with the shocks coming from the USA!
I also made my first mock up of the throttle/brake linkage.
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The next lot of bits i got was a FLM servo plate kit, from SMFSTORE.com, many thanks to nick there for getting it across the pond to me so damn fast! Nice1
A set of I-RC hellfire tank mounts and a set of bearings to go in the steering posts.
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So, fitted the steering post bearings and chucked the shagged plastic bushes out the window, oh i also got a nice new alloy servo horn lol ;-)
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Fitted the FLM servo plate front front brace, the existing forward holes for the battery box just needed to be drilled out to 4mm to accomodate the m4 screws for the brace, and three washers were used to pack out a bit of space between the brace and plate to bring the plate up to a more level position, if id just bolted the plate down onto the brace as it is the plate would be slanting forward too much, i used i little CA to hold the washers in place while i was lining everything up.
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Then i marked out where i needed to drill the new 4mm holes in the tvp for the servo plate rear brace/mount, turned out ok really.
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All bolted up with the tank mounted on the I-RC hellfire tank mounts, and my hump pack just temporarily cable tied to the underside of the servo plate, i will get battery box and I-RC kit to hang it on the shock towers, but for now its there lol
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Then i made up my Rx box, i cut off the old antenna mount from the old Rx tray that sits in the old battery box, then drilled a hole the same size as the mount and CA'd the mount into the hole.
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Then put all the guts into it, fitted the power switch into the top,the failsafe is no longer in there now.
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I used two small screws and drilled into the front shock tower to mount the RX box, i don't think this has weakened the tower any, but if it has and it breaks, the towers are two a penny on ebay so il replace it and find another way to fit it, if it doesnt break, great!
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Then i turned my attention to the roll bar, as i now had the XL extended chassis i discovered the roll bar no longer reaches where it mounts to the body posts on the stock X chassis, so made up this crude but functional and strong as hell bracket, basically out of a spare engine plate brace, a piece of ally plate, some M6 threaded rod, locknuts and washers.
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From the underside, of course two new 4mm holes had to be drilled to mount the bracket to the tvp, but this was no biggie, just had to make sure i drilled them in the right place the first time.
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Ok, so then the next things i got was an I-RC one piece engine plate/brace, 3mm plate, 9mm thick inc the brace, the XL super heavy duty diff outdrive cups and I-RC diff case gaskets.
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Stripped down the diffs, which id previously shimmed, and fitted the XL diff cups to complete the XL super heavy duty drivetrain, re-shimmed and re-filled with 30.000w silicon diff oil, greased then re-assembled the bulks.
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Fitted the I-RC one piece engine plate/braces, and used large flat steel washers under the heads of the engine mount screws, 1 to prevent the screw heads damaging the nice engine plate and 2 because my first original engine plate cracked after the first gallon or so and stripped a spur, it cracked right across the centre of between two screw heads, i replaced it with another stock piece but with the flat washers, and il continue to use the washers even with this stronger plate.
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And changed the throttle servo mounting slightly and added the FLM mounts, i will make up a nicer looking plate for the servo mounts in the future but this one i quickly knocked up works fine for now.
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Then she was pretty much done, i got a nice new XL body, all that was left to do was take her for a run. (and put the wheels back on the right way around with all the treads facing the right way lol)
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So, took it for the first run since the mods and the difference in handling was noticable straight away, hardly any body roll, no more wheelies but all four wheels on the ground putting the power down where it should be, not up in the air facing the sky lol.
Continued in next post.........................
Thought id do a little write up about my project iv been working on the past couple of weeks, and was hoping some of you savage guru's could tell me what you think?
I started off with a 4 month old savage x 4.6, pretty much stock with the exception of a HPI tuned polished pipe, ss chrome outdrive dogbones, hong nor red clutch shoes with a new 18t clutch bell to get a bit more top end speed and reduce the somewhat annoying tendency to wheelie everytime i touched the throttle, and a 6v hump pack.
It all started when i was looking for a 3 speed gearbox from a new broken up xl on ebay and, well, one thing led to another lol
This was my nearly stock X 4.6.............
And this is the pretty much finished project, as the final pieces of the puzzle arrived today, my Axial 40 series beadlocks together with a set of proline big joe rubber to wrap around them, also my new k4.6 engine arrived yesterday, pulled from a new ss kit on ebay.
Il try and take you through the journey of building this truck as best i can, i wish id started this thread at the beggining and added to it as i went along, but never mind, i did take pics as i went but after uploading all the pics off the cam and my phone and viewing all the pics most of them didnt turn out too great, low quality, so il post the best ones.
First things i got was the XL chassis plates, XL s/heavy duty extended axles, XL centre dogbone and drive cup set, ofna throttle/brake linkage kit and sliders, FLM servo mount set (which came with completely the wrong screws lol) x2, i wasnt sure of how id be mounting the servos so i got two sets, and all at a great price from the USA on ebay and an Innovatine RC LST shock kit for x lower arms.
Next things i got were, an XL 3 speed box, XL s/heavy duty outdrive dogbones and an RPM rc10gt Rx box, again ebay, USA
Then i fitted the xl tvp's, the 3 speed box, and xl centre dogbones, and turned the fuel inlet banjo round 180degrees for the upcoming mid-tank ;-)
Then the I-RC shock kit went on and i won two auctions on ebay for a full set of LST XXL shocks, an a new hellfire tank both at an absolute steal of a price, even with the shocks coming from the USA!
I also made my first mock up of the throttle/brake linkage.
The next lot of bits i got was a FLM servo plate kit, from SMFSTORE.com, many thanks to nick there for getting it across the pond to me so damn fast! Nice1
A set of I-RC hellfire tank mounts and a set of bearings to go in the steering posts.
So, fitted the steering post bearings and chucked the shagged plastic bushes out the window, oh i also got a nice new alloy servo horn lol ;-)
Fitted the FLM servo plate front front brace, the existing forward holes for the battery box just needed to be drilled out to 4mm to accomodate the m4 screws for the brace, and three washers were used to pack out a bit of space between the brace and plate to bring the plate up to a more level position, if id just bolted the plate down onto the brace as it is the plate would be slanting forward too much, i used i little CA to hold the washers in place while i was lining everything up.
Then i marked out where i needed to drill the new 4mm holes in the tvp for the servo plate rear brace/mount, turned out ok really.
All bolted up with the tank mounted on the I-RC hellfire tank mounts, and my hump pack just temporarily cable tied to the underside of the servo plate, i will get battery box and I-RC kit to hang it on the shock towers, but for now its there lol
Then i made up my Rx box, i cut off the old antenna mount from the old Rx tray that sits in the old battery box, then drilled a hole the same size as the mount and CA'd the mount into the hole.
Then put all the guts into it, fitted the power switch into the top,the failsafe is no longer in there now.
I used two small screws and drilled into the front shock tower to mount the RX box, i don't think this has weakened the tower any, but if it has and it breaks, the towers are two a penny on ebay so il replace it and find another way to fit it, if it doesnt break, great!
Then i turned my attention to the roll bar, as i now had the XL extended chassis i discovered the roll bar no longer reaches where it mounts to the body posts on the stock X chassis, so made up this crude but functional and strong as hell bracket, basically out of a spare engine plate brace, a piece of ally plate, some M6 threaded rod, locknuts and washers.
From the underside, of course two new 4mm holes had to be drilled to mount the bracket to the tvp, but this was no biggie, just had to make sure i drilled them in the right place the first time.
Ok, so then the next things i got was an I-RC one piece engine plate/brace, 3mm plate, 9mm thick inc the brace, the XL super heavy duty diff outdrive cups and I-RC diff case gaskets.
Stripped down the diffs, which id previously shimmed, and fitted the XL diff cups to complete the XL super heavy duty drivetrain, re-shimmed and re-filled with 30.000w silicon diff oil, greased then re-assembled the bulks.
Fitted the I-RC one piece engine plate/braces, and used large flat steel washers under the heads of the engine mount screws, 1 to prevent the screw heads damaging the nice engine plate and 2 because my first original engine plate cracked after the first gallon or so and stripped a spur, it cracked right across the centre of between two screw heads, i replaced it with another stock piece but with the flat washers, and il continue to use the washers even with this stronger plate.
And changed the throttle servo mounting slightly and added the FLM mounts, i will make up a nicer looking plate for the servo mounts in the future but this one i quickly knocked up works fine for now.
Then she was pretty much done, i got a nice new XL body, all that was left to do was take her for a run. (and put the wheels back on the right way around with all the treads facing the right way lol)
So, took it for the first run since the mods and the difference in handling was noticable straight away, hardly any body roll, no more wheelies but all four wheels on the ground putting the power down where it should be, not up in the air facing the sky lol.
Continued in next post.........................