Welcome to my bench(s)!

OK - here we go. The stock Clod has been stripped and cleaned as far as necessary. It cost me £75 from eBay, and came with a two-channel Futaba set, a pair of S3003 servos, a 2400 mah battery, and a timed charger. "Hardly used and ready to go" the man wrote, and that seemed to be about right. Nothing was broken, and my girlfriend's kids had a happy hour ramming it into everything in the house. We didn't bother running it outdoors, being as the garden is very wet and muddy at this time of year (and added to the fact that the truck was reasonably clean to begin with).

Here's what I didn't need - the shell, the chassis and all the suspension - this will all end up back on eBay in the not-too-distant future in order to fund other parts for the project:


Here's most of what I'm keeping - the gearboxes, all the powertrain, the wheels and the tyres. I had thought about sourcing all this as new items (being as you can now get Clodbuster gearbox kits separately), but the costs far outweigh any advantages here.


I've set up the wheelbase at something like 14 inches (355mm) here, a tidy increase over the stock 10 5/8" (270mm). Also you can just about see that I've been experimenting with some long lay-down shocks - these are made for a HPI Savage XSS and are about 6" long. £8 for four, also off eBay (as is most everything I buy RC wise), new and full of oil.