I obviously had to increase the wheel travel. The TL01
stock travel is ridicoulous if you don't want use it only on flat dirty
surface.
I built alluminium towers to use longer shocks.
The rear shock tower support the body mounts even.
Suspension set up was completed and easy to build
Now it was time to think about the gearing. You know
the TL01 is built to be fast, but speed is not exactly what you need
while crawling.
The lowest final ratio you can have on a TL01 without mods is 7,96:1
using a 19T pinion. I found a way to slap a 14T pinion inside this truck.
This gives me a ratio of 10,8:1. Slower but not enough to crawl.
Consider that a stock pajero has a 14,6:1 final ratio and a lot of guys
would like to lower it to crawl.
The first idea was to build a gear reduction, but I
lost control of my self another time and ended up with the building
of a complete 2 speed tranny. The 2 gears are shifted via radio.
Here's a studying pic. The white plastic plate attach
on the motor holes. Obviously the motor should go where the big hole
is. Then there will be a lot of pinion between the motor and the final
pinion to reduce the ratio.
On top you can see the prototype of the shifting system
and the servo I was thinking to use to shift gears.
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