Oval Truck Build (axle question 1/17)

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

so what cvd's are you thinking of using? just doing some measuring on one of my parts cars, going by the pic of the back of the truck, your bones are roughly 20 mm from the center of the outdrive. an rc10 bone is 60 mm, and the custom works "wide" cvd bone is 79 mm. in theory, they should work.

I don't know because I can only measure things 9 and 1/2 inches at a time!

Sorry, I just can't help myself! Honestly though I don't have anything more sophisticated than a tape measure. I can do the conversion, but where do I measure from? The back of the hub to the outside of the drive?

[scr8p]

you have regular rc10 universals installed in the truck now, correct? well, if you had a set of rc10 cvd's in it, the end of the bone will be in the same place. so on one of my cars i just measured from the outside of the arm mount (where you bone ends) to the center of the outdrive. that gave me about 20 mm. so, with the added 19 mm length of the custom works wide cvd, it should put the drive pin right about where you'd want it. and since CW uses associated transmission stuff, the ends will fit in your stealth outdrives.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

you have regular rc10 universals installed in the truck now, correct? well, if you had a set of rc10 cvd's in it, the end of the bone will be in the same place. so on one of my cars i just measured from the outside of the arm mount (where you bone ends) to the center of the outdrive. that gave me about 20 mm. so, with the added 19 mm length of the custom works wide cvd, it should put the drive pin right about where you'd want it. and since CW uses associated transmission stuff, the ends will fit in your stealth outdrives.

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Makes sense to me. I'm going to do a search now, but if I come up empty where should I look? Are they in production now? Thanks!

[scr8p]

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNTA3&P=SM

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNTA3&P=SM

I didn't even have time to search! Cheap too. Thanks as always! I gotta get it comin'!

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNTA3&P=SM

$20.37 to the door! This is my second favorite version of an RC10 that I've personally owned. The only thing I liked more was the Jammer! (and I think I found one locally... )

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Well I’ve really neglected any vintage related projects lately due to my so called life(I mean the real thing, not the tv show ). Sorry . Anyway, another classic r/c blunder. I didn’t think fitment would be an issue, but clearly I was wrong. Murphy’s Law(again, the real thing, not the tv show)seems to have taken over from the start of this project and never released it’s icy grip. This shell will work fine as long as I don’t want to do anything crazy like…oh…I dunno…STEER or GO FORWARD!! Oh well, as Thomas Edison once said “I never failed, I simply came up with 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb.” or something like that. I love the shape of this body, it just doesn’t fit the oddball assortment of parts in this project.

Anyway, does anyone have any other body ideas? It doesn’t have to be a truck I guess(although if I switch it now I’d be in clear violation of the truck forum). 11” long and 9 and ¾” wide are the rough measurements(I was going to use the ‘ symbol to pay soft unspoken homage to Spinal Tap, but thought better of it.)from center tire each way.

Ponder your thoughts while I go watch Hot Tub Time Machine again. If that doesn’t help with the retro thought then nothing will. Would’ve been nice if the director had worked a nice r/c rivalry in there, but it probably would have confused most movie-goers…

[Charlie don't surf]

A&L Roadkill, it was always the best LTO shell anyway-

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

A&L Roadkill, it was always the best LTO shell anyway-

Got any pics? I searched Google images, but had no luck…well actually that’s not true. I found this, which doesn’t help this project will provide much amusement at a later date.

[LTO_Dave]

Got any pics? I searched Google images, but had no luck…






Give Daryl a call because he started reproducing them recently.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Ahbhh! I've definitely seen that. I like it plenty. I need to get that comin'.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Well, since I'm workspace challenged at the moment(for more reasons than I could ever explain)I've really been dragging my feet on this.

I have a new direction I want to go anyway. Clearly the wheels are hideous on this thing and the body won't fit right anyway(but I have a new cooler idea for a body I think). For starters, anyone know of any wheels similar to these that might be modified to fit this?

[SRTracer121]

wow this is a great build. i always love vintage oval car builds. lto 4 life!

bdw, i like the rambling, it adds character to the posts

[Charlie don't surf]

There are some here that are masters of ramblings

[SRTracer121]

im only 19 so im going to go ahead and guess its you old farts

sorry, had to be said