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Hi Again, as per my previous news about moving to a new place, I’m here and absolutely love it, plenty of outdoor space (not so much indoor). Already lost 5kg just walking to the shed and feeding the chickens. I started to unpack everything and come to the realisation that a few boxes have gone miss...

Back in 2010 I got returned to the hobby. My wife surprised me with an SC10. This was neat, but all I could think about was the original clodbuster I had back in the 80's. This lead to buying a new super clodbuster, and discovering how many mods had come and gone while I was out of the hobby. I buil...

After many mods and builds (and re-builds) and basically going all-out for speed and performance, all while stubbornly insisting on using as many (stock) tamiya/clodbuster parts as possible, I came up with this. It is an extended chassis dual-brushless build that I did in early 2012. What follows is...

Axles and suspension in place. This is all CPE old-school clod 4-link. The shocks are GTR 3.5" from a traxxas jato, I would switch back and forth between them and 4" shocks with this truck. Looking back I think I could have done a better job with the suspension, but I hadn't learned that y...

Here it is almost done, notice the extra bracing: The extra rods across the shock towers are short clodbuster steering links. The 2 long rods forming an X-brace are the long clodbuster steering links. The 2 pieces of at either end of the X-brace are strips cut off of stock clod electronics trays. Th...

Proline F-650 body. I can't take credit for the paint job. It was another deal I stumbled into and didn't even know it would be the perfect wheelbase match for this build when I bought it, but I'm happy it worked out that way. Not pictured, but I put foam "bumpers" on the inside up front t...

So, as a snow-runner the truck was pretty hard to beat, it was definitely in it's element and I had a LOT of fun with it that winter. 424304_358437850857635_1655544864_n.jpg I would later try different shocks and tires as I experimented with learning how to handle the truck once spring came and it h...

Ultimitely .... the truck was too fast/powerful for it's own good. With traction on "not-snow-covered-ground" it quickly started breaking parts. It started stripping the pegs off the wheels and I had to make my own pegs by putting 3mm nuts and bolts with spacers in of all the wheels. Suspe...

A few vids of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29VfZ9_4b3k 29VfZ9_4b3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbjs_6nKhBY Nbjs_6nKhBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPC7k0lbnM4 pPC7k0lbnM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23QMvaQ2yZY 23QMvaQ2yZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot0buDOgR1k Ot0b...

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Hi Dave,

I don't remember if me and Chris competed over at this spot, I know we sure did at the old place.
The old place was the one that had the "construction zone" dirt piles out back.

I had a lot of fun with that truck, and learned a lot too.

I had a hankering for this song and stumbled across what might be the worst fan video ever made. I dig their spirit though!

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