Automan2164 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Well, still waiting on some stuff for the diesel, waiting on the weather to break to paint and prep the farmer... So the MJ I got for Christmas is finally getting some love. It started out as a used Axial SCX10 scale rock crawler. The room mate took it apart in prep to fix it up, but after letting it sit, lost motivation and sold it to me as a partial gift. Plans are to rebuild the entire thing with all new bearings, re-wire it, paint here and there, and use a new screw kit to put it together. I've had a thread going on the rc crawler forum, but figured I would post some highlights here. It's fun working on one of my MJ's while sitting on the couch watching tube. What it looked like when he ran it last: What it looked like when I got it: Trans taken apart, found no grease and a lot of rust: Taking the axles apart to put new bearings and grease: Table top hot tank in a dawn bath: Washed up and drying: New bearings: All coming back together: While all this has been going on, I became more and more dissatisfied with the paint job that the previous owner did. I have a clean body that I will paint, but I want to keep that one nice. So it was time to dirty up the "Wheeler" body. I took off the ridiculous mudflaps, the "Texas house of representatives" stickers on the doors, and all those stupid lights. I taped off the door and fender, and shot them with some red. To add to the effect of the "Junkyard" fender and door, I added some Pioneer stripes, and some lettering from the junkyard. I also primered the rockers and cab corners to represent the midwest. The window got a smattering of decals, and some bars to make it look like a slider too. And that's where it sits for now! Waiting on a couple small screws and such, but once I get those, I'll have it all together and give it a run. Rob :cheers:
Automan2164 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 The one thing that the PO did get right was he could take a mean video of it, and was pretty good at editing them. Too bad that he never cleaned the thing out, or took care of it. I can't tell you how unhappy I was to be pulling sand, hair, and mud out of the axles and trans. 26p2A53JiOY Yq80FYtC-_A Rob
ComancheKid45 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 don't forget to prime the bedsides as well, I know theres rust under those flares! :rotf: Looks Awesome though, keep us posted! :wrench:
SPCBruce89 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 i was just about to post something along the lines of who here likes scale RC trail tucks and bam rob u beat me to it lol
JeepcoMJ Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Looks good so far...now you need to figure out how to put the grille on upside down
Automan2164 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 Looks like fun do they come in gas You wouldn't want gas. Gas is a high strung, finnicky beast in RC. I used to think that it was gas or go home, but once you play with the trouble free electric, you don't go back. Besides, you need the low end torque that electric gives you for crawling. Using a nitro RC for rock crawling would be like dropping a dragster engine in your MJ and trying to go rock crawling. Rob
SW86 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 man that looks awsome. theres a lot more parts in those things then i thought. its almost like a real truck with all those gears and bearings lol how about a little something on it for the south. no. not a rebel flag :roll:
SW86 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Looks good so far...now you need to figure out how to put the grille on upside down :rotf:
jimoshel Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 I thought I'd put all that behind me when i got rid of all my toys, RC planes and HO railroad. Looks like I'm gonna be heading to the Hobby shop today. Thanks a lot Rob, ol buddy. Hope I get a chance to do the same for you someday.
87Warrior Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Rob, be sure to add some full size stick on wheel weights (what is used for balancing a rim) around the inside of the RC wheels. Virtually eliminates the 'bounce' and really gives it a ton of traction :thumbsup: To anybody else wanting this MJ Body... you will have to find one used or second hand. ProLine has once again discontinued the MJ body.
Blue88Comanche Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 where can i get one of those? last month my birthday cake had a JK on it because we could not find a comanche.. next year i was going to fix that and have a rc Comanche sporting the top of my cake :D that and it would be cool to have
Naterenfo1 Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 Pull up the carpet and check the floors!!
Automan2164 Posted March 6, 2012 Author Posted March 6, 2012 Finished it up today. Got the body mounted, steering trimmed, re-did the settings on the speed control, and was climbing anything I could find in the living room. I was pretty surprised that without the body on, I can back straight up a wall to the point where it flips over... Pretty neat. I can't wait to mess around with it this week in the nicer weather. That, and get cranking on some real MJ's. Rob
87_Pioneers Posted March 7, 2012 Posted March 7, 2012 This thing is sweet do you have the link to the RC crawler forum?
Automan2164 Posted March 7, 2012 Author Posted March 7, 2012 Played with it in the backyard today... A bit windy, so excuse the noise there. Nothing special, just messing around. xt9IjpYxV7E wcsC0EuTmcU m9TxhAmhnTs 35PBIR1Sth8 an8odMCjr_k Rob
neohic Posted March 7, 2012 Posted March 7, 2012 :clapping: ... but you're making me want one of these too. :shake:
Lewt2007 Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 Rob, be sure to add some full size stick on wheel weights (what is used for balancing a rim) around the inside of the RC wheels. Virtually eliminates the 'bounce' and really gives it a ton of traction :thumbsup: To anybody else wanting this MJ Body... you will have to find one used or second hand. ProLine has once again discontinued the MJ body. correction pro-line is still making them i just checked they are 43 dollars new i got a brand new one its going to go on a traxxas t max chassis here is the link to the page to buy them http://prolineracing.com/bodies/jeep-comanche-full-bed-clear-body-one-piece/
87Warrior Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 Glad to see proline shipping the MJ bodies again!
MCF90 Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Rob, you should check out RCCrawler.com. Lots of good info over there. Matt
Automan2164 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Posted June 13, 2012 Bump for pics and videos! Believe it or not, after some picking of lines and a couple different tries, it made it up and over! IGoK4J4EBx8 CaAPrtzeRFk This one would have been a keeper, had I not got into the shot... Damnit. xS4BXrKD-WM Rob
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