Monday, 7 December 2009

Ram Truck



Not sure if this is a new project or a variation of an old one. I bought 1/16 scale New Bright Dodge Ram truck on eBay for 99p. These are £25 in the shops, and as they go are fairly pretty trucks. They run on 4x AAs, have rubbish steering and no suspension. One of my TL-01B/Baja King/Champ chassis has now got much bigger crawler type tyres mounted on cheapo 26mm wide touring wheels. They're very soft and squidgy and came with foam inserts to help maintain their shape. The New Bright shell will need drilling to fit straight on the existing mounts, but that's easy peasy. I've bought an integy 45 turn lathe motor for it, and I'm going to lock the rear differential and move the ball diff currently in the back to the front. It should be good in the woods!