Bondo's 6X6 Scale/Crawler recovery truck

[_paralyzed_]

Man I need to check this thread more often.

Bondo kept telling me to get ahold of him if I needed a tow job. I thought he was saying, "Toe job" and thought he had a foot fetish.

And James can EAD. No, seriously lincypoo, please?

[pinkpanda3310]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

Man I need to check this thread more often.

Bondo kept telling me to get ahold of him if I needed a tow job. I thought he was saying, "Toe job" and thought he had a foot fetish.

And James can EAD. No, seriously lincypoo, please?

Given you're a quad I can understand you're not interested in toe jobs but you still persist with James to EAD? I need to go drive the porcelain bus now

[_paralyzed_]

Originally Posted by pinkpanda3310

Given you're a quad I can understand you're not interested in toe jobs but you still persist with James to EAD? I need to go drive the porcelain bus now

What I lack in feeling James makes up for with effort.

[lincpimp]

Just watched the vid, that 1.9 cherokee with the working steering wheel is cool. Watching the action figure's arms move just makes it that much cooler!

[Bondonutz]

Hehe, most of the scaler guys choose muscle bound wrestlers or GI types to "drive" their trucks, I had to be bit different. I named my driver Bob Zombie and went with the theme a little further with custom made beadlock wheels with "Double Tap" on the rings (quote from Zombieland) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDJedaxA2eU

[Bondonutz]

I was batteling a bump steer issue with all 3 axles, the #1-#2 were horrible where-as the 3rd wasn't bad at all. I reconfigured the linkages for #1 & #3 and the bump steer is nearly non existant now via bench testing. The 2nd axle I fabricated a entirely new mount due the old one rubbing the shock a little, this mount far exceeds the first design anyway. I'm now going to be putting everything back together for a test later today or during the week when time allows.

A big thanks to James/Lincpimp, his help made figuring out these issues a bit easier.

I made spacers to drop the servo down 15mm, made abig difference.





The new servo mount










Also have a short video of the this servo and mount in actionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9EENrKvSY







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[Bondonutz]

Ben taking some time to add a few things to chassis and cab and now working on assembly and getting everything wired back up.



Perscription Med's bottle fuel tanks






Went for more of a Road Warrior vibe, was worried about the lexan windows getting knocked out so used this plastic garden border mesh.(8"x20' roll $6.00 @ Lowes)

[brainanator]

Bought 20' of the mesh and used up a whole 6"? You'll find more uses for it now that you have it I'm sure, haha.

Lookin good! I like the fuel tanks.

[Bondonutz]

For those whom are following my thread I greatly appreciate your interest, I do have the 6x6 100% complete and have done a limited control test here at home but Sunday at a scheduled meet I hope to get some good still pic's and video of it at "work".
Please stay posted for the first actual real world test.

Thanks for looking

[mikesauto]

will be nice to see it in action awsome build!!

[Bondonutz]

Another "poser" shot with my Losi Micro Trekker hitchin' a ride.







I built a tow rig that incoorperates the usage of the boom and winch to tow a crawler, please see pics and video attached.













VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg9MNl3IQw






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[nitrostarter]

Dude! That's just too cool!! It sucks to see Bob Zombie getting a tow but that works phenomenally!!

Thought about stiffer springs in the rear maybe?

[Bondonutz]

Hehe, Thanks Corey.
Ol Bob is pissed because he thinks he's getting repo'd.

Thinking about springs also but really wanna drive it befor I decide to do next.

[Bondonutz]

Went for a scale run this AM and had a blast, A real nice spot with a great mix of everything from trails, gravel, sand, mud, creek, steep banks etc except rocks and all completely shaded. I was so into wanting to drive and test I completely forgot about the camera and HD recorder in the car, DOH. Luckily DontSlowDown/Chris had his Iphone and snapped a few pics, Thanks Buddy !

[sikeston34m]

Great Job Bondo!

Reminds me a Lizard Lick Towing.

"But.......But...........I PAID my Bill! You ain't taking my ride!"

LOL