The hilux is built.... Not sure I like her.

[jepensedoucjsuis]

So I have my hilux all done (still need to do some minor body stuf) and I dont really like it. The shifting is clunky and it is way to heavy. I get almost zero flex out of the suspention (set very soft) and the ground clearence is rubbish. That is the bad....

The good. With the 55t integy motor and a 19t pinion gear it has enough power and speed in all three gears. can craw any thing the wheels get a hold of and gets pretty good battery life to boot. First run was 45-55 min with the RS 3300mha pack and I was to cold to keep on going. I will do a proper test tomorrow (I promised my girl that I would not muddle about with the R/C's on V-day) But if I am to be honest here, I honestly like the CC chassis much better.

So does any one know how I can improve the bad? If not I think I will sell it on, and make a few bucks doing so.

But I only paid 181.98 (including shipping) off of e-bay for the whole thing. The guy had it labeled as "Timya Toyata P'up" I misspelled "Toyota" and this was the only thing that popped up. (lucky me Right?) So I got a great deal. And I do want to keep it, I just need to sort out the crap first......

[Blazerbogger]

I didn't truly like mine when I first built it either. The tranny is just too low. Just before I got the truck, I came across an RCC thread where some guys had turned the tranny on it's side and made an adapter plate to turn the transfer case back down. I did my best to copy this, but it wasn't the easiest thing to do. It took me about 4 hours to complete. You can also put a single/2 speed RC4WD tranny in.

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As for the suspension, the springs have to break in. Are you just running the one leaf? Did you set up the shifter right. Maybe the shifting rod isn't going a far as it should. Check your servo setup, the setup on mine pushes and pulls the whole tranny. Looks like you paid a nice price though, so wait and see. Maybe the truck will grow on you.

[jepensedoucjsuis]

Well here is what I have done since I posted. (while my girl was out shopping) I stole the tires off of my Axial AX10. But now I need a HT servo No biggie. and I fiddled with the shift gate on the TX and now the shift speeds are much inproved. (What I ment by "clunky" was the I could not change gears properly enough for a smooth drive. ie: I would go from second to third and the momentum I built was wasted during the shift.
With those taken care of I may fiddle about with the transfer case or I seen 2 speed case on rc4wd that would make great use of the 4th channel. I just would have to figure out how to do it.

[Wyoming]

Leaf springs are not known to offer great articulation on real trucks either, but they do loosen up quite a bit after they break in, but mine flexed pretty good even bone stock if built carefully, the shackle bolts shouldn't be too tight and everything should move smoothly. Blazerbogger also has the Chino mod in his build that shows modifying the leaf spring ends which woill help too, as for ground clearance it is a matter of where you drive, I have my F-350 stock and I use it around town for show since it has the MFU its fun to drive "fast" with the stock motor on pavement with open diffs, My tundra has the stock 3 speed lifted apx 1/2 inch and I use it for off-road but not "crawling" and then I have my Hilux which I simply removed the 3 speed and fitted an r2 gaining more than an inch, I could have gone all the way up flush with bottom of chassis but I mostly do scale trail driving and didn't need maxium Ground clearence So I left it hanging down a little to keep the weight lower. Generally the Stock XC/CC-01 can run circles around the high lift on most surfaces provided they both have locked diffs but I've noticed it won't last as long before it starts to wear out and need parts and it doesn't do as well in mud because it fills up the chassis tub and gets into the motor, The highlift is very open and much easier to clean and the mud can't collect anywhere to do damage like in the XC, but that being the case I have a bunch of both trucks each set up a little different for different purposes and the beauty of these trucks is that you can change them to make them into what you want or need, if it was "perfect" for everything right out of the box it wouldn't be as much fun IMO.