Ledbetter Leather Custom Leather Holster maker

This is one of my Favorite trucks. This is a Tamiya Clodbuster that I made a custom suspension for. I wanted to see if I could take a bone stock Clodbuster and modify it into a Rock Crawler and still have about 80% of the truck remain in its stock form. The gearbox's were disassembled and bearings added and the diffs locked. I them made an aluminum suspension plate that would not only raise the truck for more ground clearance but also extend the wheel base to make the truck more stable on steep inclines. For Crawling you want articulation, and lots of it. If your tires are not gripping because they are not on the ground then your not climbing anything. So I wanted this truck to flex like a gymnast! The stock lower suspension arms would work to allow up and down movement of the gearbox's but to keep them centered inline on the truck I would need to triangulate the set of upper link rods. I made a simple upper ball stud mount to mount the upper rods to the top of the gearbox's and move the inner ballstud mounts in the bottom of the chassis tub outward to the bottom plate mount hole location and made aluminum link rods to tie them together using stock rod ends. The servos were upgrade to a set of GWS Super High torque units and I made two servo mounts that mounted to the gearbox sides inline with the steering arms. A Kimbrough servo saver is used on both servos. To control the ups and downs of the truck 4 Savage shocks were used, one per wheel, with the softest springs HPI made for them. I added a Styrene Plastic Avalanche body to the truck and detailed it out a little. For a mostly stock truck it crawls very well. I now run an electronic Speed control in it and I do plan on switching out the stock motors to a set of Com. Lathe motors. This truck with this suspension set up yields more articulation than a stock TXT-1. I was very pleased with how it turned out. So pleased I built 2 more Clods with the same set up. My cousin Keith owns one, we dubbed the Dickbeater, and my friend Neill owns the other simply named the Longstroker II ! Look on there web pages for pics of those trucks.