early rustler rebuild for my son

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early rustler rebuild for my son

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was flipping pages on ebay looking for goodies and came across this auction
listed as VINTAGE-RC-ELIMINATOR-GOLD-HPI-TRAXXAS-WILD-WILLY
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RC-ELIMINATOR-GOLD-HPI-TRAXXAS-WILD-WILLY-/163211076343?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=TobmlFJxzaKdXS1%252FUDBW5l%252B3gG4%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc
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I wanted the bloink parts and since the traxxas car looked complete and would make a good beginner basher for my son . I bought the lot

after taking it to the lhs to buy some parts
(missing steering parts and top plate )
and having all the traxxas guys say things like "wow that's old" "hey its a classic" , I started to feel old lol
its a early run rustler (I bought a bandit brand new when they still came with a msc)

but as far as I can tell there is really no difference between it and the new vxl version other than metal gears in the trans and a few changes to the drive shafts

I got it rebuilt
and printed some green accent parts on my 3d printer
took a 3d file from a trx4 bumper and modified it to bolt to the rustler (printed in pink for now but will be green once I get it how I like it

stuck some old electronics in it that I had lying around and a old duratrax evader stock 20t motor (my son is 3 this is probably still to much power lol)
and she is up and running




picked up this on ebay as well
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Traxxas-Rustler-2WD-1-10-sc-truck-chassis-UPGRRADED-/132759272262?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=TobmlFJxzaKdXS1%252FUDBW5l%252B3gG4%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc
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since it looks pretty chewed up the plan is to
swap the body ,alloy parts, and rpm parts to this rustler , and mabey the trans (if its not beat to bad) and strip the rest down to my parts bin for spares if needed
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Re: early rustler rebuild for my son

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ok lol gave up on waiting on the parts truck
hit up the hobby store today and finished her up
pretty sick looking truck for my 3yr old lol kinda regret saying its his lol

printed some shock spacers and did a final print of the bumper

bought the parts to update the front axles to new hex style
and picked up the body and tires

my 3yr old "helped me paint" the body then him and our 13 yr old put the stickers on it

he bashed the crap out of it used up 2 4200 mh packs with only one 3d printed rear tie rod breaking
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lol aaannnnd just my luck the parts car showed up today

oh well didn't take much just added some electronics and fixed some mis adjusted turnbuckles and its a runner
guess my plan of spare parts was a fail lol

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Re: early rustler rebuild for my son

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discgolfer72 wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:20 am

oh well didn't take much just added some electronics and fixed some mis adjusted turnbuckles and its a runner
guess my plan of spare parts was a fail lol
and thats just how it happens :lol:
Peace and professionlism.....Kabunga signing off!!!

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Re: early rustler rebuild for my son

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lol yea soo hard not to order a bunch of parts lots to finish the t3 and traxxas slash chassis I got in my last lot lol


today I spent some time on my 3d printers and printed out some scale goodies for my rustler lol (why leave all the scale fun to the crawler guys lol )

and some fun out in the sun with my 3yr old lol
https://youtu.be/lpkvktcoRvQ


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