okay have some birthday money

spidertoy · Oct 3, 2006

and want to spend it on some parts for my TLT, what should I buy first? the pede tranny? or a chassis?

BlueMonster1 · Oct 3, 2006

How much do you have to spend? I built a Pede trans from all new parts for $30, not including bearings or spur adaptor. You can buy one for $50 ready to rock-n-roll.

spidertoy · Oct 3, 2006

so far I have $50, but have not gotten all of the family together yet, (my sister and my nephew were sick) so we are getting together next weekend, I usually get a couple O' Dollars more from my Grandma, but we'll see

Todd1803 · Oct 3, 2006

I would start with a Tranny. I've seen some pretty nice builds using modded stock chassis plates, but no amount of tweaking will overcome the weakness of the belt drive tranny. Look around for deals, I saw a complete rustler on CL for $50 the other day.

426rider · Oct 3, 2006

tranny all the way. Chassis can be built or modify the stock one. Cheap chassis is the torsion and they work real well.

VMGontheRocks · Oct 3, 2006

You can't built a truck without a tranny but you can build one without a chassis. So I wold definately get a tranny.

spidertoy · Oct 8, 2006

okay got up to $150 now so I am gonna get the pede from tammies, and ?? what next? chassis, or???

Tanis · Oct 8, 2006

You are also going to need driveshafts to mate to the tranny. Either stampede, jato, tmaxx; I've even seen revo used. Up to you. Do you have 2.2 wheels and tires? A strong metal geared servo? Those might be next.

Nathan

spidertoy · Oct 8, 2006

I have the stock TLT stuff, am gonna get pieces as I go

spidertoy · Oct 11, 2006

alright, pede and a 55T is on the way from tammies, and have pretty much decided on a SW2 chassis, so I have to figure out how to pay for that since I dont have a PayPal:lame:

Todd1803 · Oct 11, 2006

The SW2 is a great chassis, but it's possible to modify the stock chassis while you are saving. If you need a bottom skid, you can use a cutting board to fab one.

spidertoy · Oct 22, 2006

well seing as how its borthday money, I am gonna just go for the SW2, but should I go for black, or the plain aluminum? I am thinking that with the plain alum. I could paint it WHATEVER color I want to seing as I work in a paint shop

spidertoy · Oct 22, 2006

oooh that means that I could paint the links and servo mounts the same colors, or even paint links and chassis plates for others huh? do you think that there would be much of a market for "custom colors" on a chassis?