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Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:48 pm
by romulus22
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:16 pm
by USA-1
Hi Todd looks good! These kits were rush to market I don't remember exactly how they went together. 1st batch had bad tranny cases I remember they melted if it was hit with motor spray had recall. Man I hated that pipe very loud and raspy.
I used spacers for the front and thin slot screws under the front body posts.
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:57 pm
by romulus22
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:01 pm
by romulus22
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:15 pm
by romulus22
Finished rolling chassis. Thanks to DHood and USA-1 for setting me up with the missing pieces.
Now to get another body and try to paint a period correct paint theme.
![Image](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j23/romulus22/Mobile%20Uploads/AD6F6247-35B4-47D3-9824-0EA6DB953506.jpg)
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:34 pm
by DHood
Looks great. That was fast
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Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:52 pm
by SFC K
That does look good and nice job cleaning it up. I did not know it was chain driven. Pretty neat.
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:37 pm
by romulus22
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:44 pm
by romulus22
Sorry if I stole these from anyone on eBay recently but Ive needed this upper deck forever now so I can get rid of the LXT upper deck. The other parts are just a bonus for me. New chassis and new hydradrive conversion for the RC10T conversion
I'm excited to get this one finished up. Body is off at the painters too
And the truck as it sits for anyone who hasn't seen it in my garage thread
![Image](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j23/romulus22/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_0240.jpg)
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:27 pm
by UserUnrelated
That looks nice!
Chain drive is one of those strange things I've always had a primal attraction towards, probably from my long pre-RC history of building big 120Lb robots
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Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:33 pm
by DHood
Yes you did. I wanted that auction for the hydra drive conversion
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Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:55 pm
by romulus22
Sorry Dan
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Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:25 pm
by discgolfer72
romulus22 wrote:Sorry if I stole these from anyone on eBay recently but Ive needed this upper deck forever now so I can get rid of the LXT upper deck. The other parts are just a bonus for me. New chassis and new hydradrive conversion for the RC10T conversion
I'm excited to get this one finished up. Body is off at the painters too
And the chassis as it sits for anyone who hasn't seen it in my garage thread
![Image](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j23/romulus22/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_0729_zpsdc7524df.jpg)
lol yup i was watching thoes as well oh well never ended up making a bid tho had my eye on a sprint chassis
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:16 am
by GreenHell
Cool find, nice job on the rebuild!
Re: Duratrax conversion RC10T
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:07 pm
by maruirc
I have a old kit too. I gave up looking for parts to rebuild mine a long time ago. I drive it hard so I made my own parts. The stock carb is junk. It kept falling off. I replaced it with a 10A carb. Much better now. I machined a new radio tray and chassis. The stock one was too thin and flexed and I wore out the countersink holes. Chasiss is now 1/8" as is the radio tray. I replaced the both sprockets with hard machined ones. The plastic diff sprockets won't last long and I replaced the chain drive with stainless steel chain. Much stronger than the the stock one. I replaced the transmission mounts with aluminum ones and I replaced the spur gear/brake drum with a new one. The brake drum wore down in size. The brake setup is very poor stopping. I had to machined a whole new clutch setup as the old one wore out and parts were impossible to find. The clutch shoes were a bad idea for this truck. I replaced it with a MIP clutch shoe. I replaced the tank with a bigger one to run 10 min. you could barley run 5 min with the stock tank.
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I had to replace the stock rear suspension mounts with aluminum ones that I made. I broke the RPM and stock plastic ones.
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
I still have the origional box.
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So I never need to look for parts for this kit. I made several spares.
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