I like that the build is going in a direction to make the 3d printed parts work. They look so good! It's going to be a heavy car in the end but pretty :)
Dude this video saved my life, my 2 year old son plays with my scx24 deadbolt and cracked the shock tower.. now I'm simply going to relocate the shocks to the frame! Thanks!!
I put my rear shocks in the same location. I took a different approach in the front though. You can leave the shocks in their stock location and move the body mount to its highest setting. This will give you the same look but at the same time keeping your center of gravity a little lower in the front. Love watching the build and the scale parts look awesome! Sometimes looks have to outweigh performance.
Great detailed video, thank you! I’m just getting into RC and ordered the C10 version to use to learn to work on them before touching more expensive trucks. This was extremely helpful. I plan on switching tires to a slightly larger tire, and this mod will be required. Cheers.
Angle them more and bring it lower. More flex. Better side hilling. Angling the shock a little more will reduce spring resistance, allows for more travel/flex, and lowers the chassis lowering the center of gravity. IMO It one of the best free mods you make. I use the battery tab to mount the rear shock. The front will depend on the which scx. But equally low. Mine sits at roughly the lower 1/3 of the travel.
@@MiguelCortez It's a free experiment and mostly reversible. On the jeep the rear wheels will hit fenders unless you drill new hinge mount holes to raise the body in the rear.(or cut out the fenders wider). I did this and cut frame rail slots in the grill to allow the front body to sit at the lowest position on the mounting posts. You drag your bottom center more but it's way more stable. I didn't like the idea till I tried it..now I'm all about dropping everything as low as possible. However your upper accessories could make it want to tip side hilling with softer suspension unless you go with internal shocks with reversed springs that pull the body down.
There is another vid out about this. If u keep the front shocks straight up and the rear slanted it helps u climb better. This way in this video is actually not as good as the stock setup for climbing.
I think i found a negative, I did this with one shock just to test it and it bottomed out faster, idk if it was cause they where at diff heights or what.
I just did it with both fronts and still bottoms out faster, might need stronger springs also cause they don’t seem to bring the shocks back up after pressed in
Mounting your shocks to the bumper mounts gives some amazing performance try it you'll thank me I guarantee it I did that on my raptor build and I'm doing near vertical climbs no suspension unload at all ascending or descending
Tried this and really didn't like it. It just made my Jeep more top heavy by being raised so far up. Unless you have wheel rubbing dont try this one, just trim your body. That's a better option.
Get the 18g brass diff cover with skid plate on the front. I got one on Amazon for cheap. Its $14.30 right now if you have prime. Otherwise its $15 and some change. The brand is puraten.. havent had any issues with it and it comes with all the screw and an allen wrench
@@MiguelCortez another thing you could do is the rclions carbon fiber chassis is on Amazon for $12.99 it gives you a bunch of rear shock mount options. I installed that on her jeep as well.
Having a good scale look with all that stuff on the top of the body, means to loose some climbing and technical capabilities, so... You have to decide what are your rig is going to use for. And yes, relocate your shocks could help to climb better, but this position is too high if you wanna climb more than 45°. In the other hand, you have a very nice looking scale jeep, congrats!
What’s with the 70’s porn music?! Lol. Great video man. Lot of info. Did the same stuff to my Jeep and now she’s a little heavy. Motor gets hot so watch that. I’m doing a surpass/ furitec install. Nice rig. Wanka wanka boom time!
There is nothing wrong with your model or idea you should just use some TACKY grease instead of regular grease because REGULAR grease will just get warm and come out but the tacky grease will not get warm and begin to melt down like regular grease
@@MiguelCortez if you need tacky grease right now they sell it in Lowe's hardware but it is sold in a tube or you will need a grease gun but I just use my fingers the grease is LUCAS GREASE you get 3 in a package TACKY grease is one of them you get in the package
I've been trying to trade my furitek tegu 3s mainboard for scale parts for my girlfriend's jeep lol. She really likes how they look with the scale parts on them. If you know anyone who would be interested please let them know. Theres a 1 minute 38 sec video on my channel with all the info in the description box
I like that the build is going in a direction to make the 3d printed parts work. They look so good! It's going to be a heavy car in the end but pretty :)
Exactly Hahahah thanks for the support !
Great clear video, learnt a lot. Thanks for posting it.
Dude this video saved my life, my 2 year old son plays with my scx24 deadbolt and cracked the shock tower.. now I'm simply going to relocate the shocks to the frame! Thanks!!
Awesome glad the video helped!
I put my rear shocks in the same location. I took a different approach in the front though. You can leave the shocks in their stock location and move the body mount to its highest setting. This will give you the same look but at the same time keeping your center of gravity a little lower in the front. Love watching the build and the scale parts look awesome! Sometimes looks have to outweigh performance.
That’s a good idea I might just have to come around to that technique to get the thing to actually crawl ahahah !
Do you have a video on this?
Not at the moment
Move ur upper rear shocks to the next forward hole its a huge difference in stability and flex!!!
Add tiny O rings before you add the grease and see of that helps
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Great detailed video, thank you! I’m just getting into RC and ordered the C10 version to use to learn to work on them before touching more expensive trucks. This was extremely helpful. I plan on switching tires to a slightly larger tire, and this mod will be required. Cheers.
Glad the video helped 👍👍👍
Upgrading it is so cheap. My Tmaxx is now just sitting.
Angle them more and bring it lower. More flex. Better side hilling. Angling the shock a little more will reduce spring resistance, allows for more travel/flex, and lowers the chassis lowering the center of gravity. IMO It one of the best free mods you make. I use the battery tab to mount the rear shock. The front will depend on the which scx. But equally low. Mine sits at roughly the lower 1/3 of the travel.
Great insight I will have to check this out 👍
@@MiguelCortez It's a free experiment and mostly reversible. On the jeep the rear wheels will hit fenders unless you drill new hinge mount holes to raise the body in the rear.(or cut out the fenders wider). I did this and cut frame rail slots in the grill to allow the front body to sit at the lowest position on the mounting posts. You drag your bottom center more but it's way more stable. I didn't like the idea till I tried it..now I'm all about dropping everything as low as possible. However your upper accessories could make it want to tip side hilling with softer suspension unless you go with internal shocks with reversed springs that pull the body down.
Add BB’s to your tires.
Good idea 👍
Just did this on my c 10 and holy this think is lifted now! Thanks
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Great project Miguel! I like how you handled that issue rather than pulling the scale parts off as they look bad ass.
The scale parts are dope !!! Couldn’t take them off hahahaha
Nice video, What grease did you use? I dont find this previous video
Did you do anything to the drive shafts? When I had mine without shocks at full droop my drive lines came out. Great stuff man!
There is another vid out about this. If u keep the front shocks straight up and the rear slanted it helps u climb better. This way in this video is actually not as good as the stock setup for climbing.
Valid points 🙌
I think i found a negative, I did this with one shock just to test it and it bottomed out faster, idk if it was cause they where at diff heights or what.
Definitely a issue that happens after the relocation.
I just did it with both fronts and still bottoms out faster, might need stronger springs also cause they don’t seem to bring the shocks back up after pressed in
Mounting your shocks to the bumper mounts gives some amazing performance try it you'll thank me I guarantee it I did that on my raptor build and I'm doing near vertical climbs no suspension unload at all ascending or descending
🤔🤔 never thought of that position. Stock or long travel shocks?
@@MiguelCortez stock shocks NGL they're the best ones I've used for my build so far
Front and rear or what?
@@jimholt2177 yeah man
@@ryanmcmuffi6137 both front and rear? Wow i will have to try that
Great video brother if you mount the shock upside down it helps so the grease doesn't come out as easily 👍
I’ve seen that before interesting I didn’t know what was the reason for that hahah !
@@MiguelCortez it's also for lowering your CG 😄
Ahhhhh thanks !
Hey man just got back into the hobby, you know any good micro crawl spots in SoCal? Thanks
GREAT VIDEO BRO!!! GLAD TO SEE YOUR CONTENT EVERYTIME IT DROPS!🙌🏽💯
Glad you’re enjoying it hahah thanks for the support!
Tried this and really didn't like it.
It just made my Jeep more top heavy by being raised so far up.
Unless you have wheel rubbing dont try this one, just trim your body.
That's a better option.
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Where I relocated my rear shocks was at the back of the battery tray which gives me a little more flex.
I’ll have to check out that location next time !
Get the 18g brass diff cover with skid plate on the front. I got one on Amazon for cheap. Its $14.30 right now if you have prime. Otherwise its $15 and some change. The brand is puraten.. havent had any issues with it and it comes with all the screw and an allen wrench
I’ll have to look it up thanks 🙏
@@MiguelCortez another thing you could do is the rclions carbon fiber chassis is on Amazon for $12.99 it gives you a bunch of rear shock mount options. I installed that on her jeep as well.
Great instructional vid. I followed along but found my servo hung low and kind of removed any travel...did I miss a step?
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No that sounds about normal, that is a draw back of the mod
Having a good scale look with all that stuff on the top of the body, means to loose some climbing and technical capabilities, so... You have to decide what are your rig is going to use for. And yes, relocate your shocks could help to climb better, but this position is too high if you wanna climb more than 45°. In the other hand, you have a very nice looking scale jeep, congrats!
Agreed the position of the shocks is too high. A viewer pointed out it should be called a overlander now! Going with that hahah
Did you have the wide kit to make the width larger
On this build no but on other builds yes
do i have to completely take it off?
What the shock ? Yes
Do you have a link to the shocks you used the silver spring from?
Hot Racing Aluminum Threaded Shocks Axial SCX24 SXTF326R01
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@@MiguelCortez Thank you!
Can I use the stock spring
Yeah go ahead
Went from bmx to micro crawler
Gonna seriously try and get a bmx blog this week no cap
I saw ur scx24 on OfferUp lmao
😂😂😂
Buy it lol
My screws on the top shock tower kept stripping
Threads ? Or the head ? Ease it in
What’s with the 70’s porn music?! Lol. Great video man. Lot of info. Did the same stuff to my Jeep and now she’s a little heavy. Motor gets hot so watch that. I’m doing a surpass/ furitec install. Nice rig. Wanka wanka boom time!
Hahahah it’s UA-cam music I’ll have to look for some more 😂 glad you found the video helpful! Build sounds like it’s coming along good luck ⚡️⚡️
Takes alot of flex out of the front the way the tire hits the shock when turning going over anything.
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I guess if you just cut that extra cylinder that's just for looks it would work fine
You can also lower the cap on the stock shocks as well. I know they are not threaded but will stay where you lower them to.
There is nothing wrong with your model or idea you should just use some TACKY grease instead of regular grease because REGULAR grease will just get warm and come out but the tacky grease will not get warm and begin to melt down like regular grease
That is a great point 🤝
@@MiguelCortez if you need tacky grease right now they sell it in Lowe's hardware but it is sold in a tube or you will need a grease gun but I just use my fingers the grease is LUCAS GREASE you get 3 in a package TACKY grease is one of them you get in the package
I've been trying to trade my furitek tegu 3s mainboard for scale parts for my girlfriend's jeep lol. She really likes how they look with the scale parts on them. If you know anyone who would be interested please let them know. Theres a 1 minute 38 sec video on my channel with all the info in the description box
Noted will do !
@@MiguelCortez thanks bro. I appreciate it!
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