1/5 scale monster truck project

[Steve71]

Brilliant build! Can look at the details forever! Unbelievable! That is a Build Of The Year winner. ENTER IT!!!

Thank you. With the health issues I have been going through the past few weeks I haven't spent much time online, but I plan to read up on the contest and enter it hopefully in the next monthly one.

[Steve71]

Took the custom 1/5 scale out to the local park today to stretch its legs since this is only the 2nd ever run after completion. To say it exceeded my hopes for speed would be an understatement. It's actually kind of scary to see something 50lbs and nearly 3ft long going that fast. It's definitely going to take some getting use to driving that's for sure.

[Dadio]

It's certainly got the horses

[coxbros1]

It's certainly got the horses

Still like to see one of his projects with a big nitro engine in it....make it happen

[TheDiamondOne]

It's certainly got the horses

Still like to see one of his projects with a big nitro engine in it....make it happen

I concur, would be so titties!

[Steve71]

Another day another test for the 1/5 scale. Today is its first few jumps to see how it gets some air. Handles great, only one mishap due to my driving lol. I was worried the ramp wouldn't handle the weight but it seemed okay for now. Bigger air to come as I get more use to this big truck.

[Steve71]

Upgrades/mods on the 1/5 scale today. As with any custom project after you get it going there's always the chasing down of what needs to be more heavy duty. One major issue was breaking servo gears in the s9020 servo in crashes. Even with the HD servo saver when 50lbs of truck slams the front wheels sideways in a wreck bad things happen fast when the axle has a ton of steering radius built into it. So I fabricated some steering stops out of steel and used the existing holes already in the top of the Hesse axles. Had a cartwheel style wreck the other day and servo gears were just fine so that worked well. Also upgraded the 4-links from 5/16 to 3/8 steel after snapping one of the 5/16. And also added two more 5/16" steel rear steer locks outs so it now had quad lock out bars since it bent one of the ones when I just had dual on it. Still have to swap the front 4 links to the new 3/8" bars but will do that this week.

[Steve71]

Got the 1/5 out for a bit of a run today to test the new mods I did before the weather gets bad tomorrow.