How to Upgrade your Axle and Suspension for the Axial Bomber RR10
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- There is one MAJOR weakness with the Axial RR10 Bomber straight out of the box. Those axles and links! Not sure why Axial made them out of noodles...but they did!
We are here to fix it!
I install:
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- Links: amzn.to/3kHtq5V
Tool needed, shock pliers: amzn.to/3vJEXIb
Video Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Axle Tubes
3:26 Links
9:45 Shocks
11:38 Test
13:53 Review
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This rig keeps getting better looking and more badass with every episode. Keep it up Troy.
That's the plan!
Giveaway coming soon!
some fantastic info, I might have taken the opportunity to squeeze some grease into the diff housing.
That is always an interesting discussion point.
I used to really worry about grease on my gears, etc.
But...this isn't 1:1. The forces we are talking about really aren't that high.
I like a thin coating if I am worried about water and rust...but otherwise I don't stress it in an application like this. However - I might be wrong!
@@RoadsideRC when i use grease its mostly for water and rust protection.
This is really coming along nicely. Looking forward to what's next. Thanks for all the great information.
Thanks for watching!
Stay tuned - I hit a comp with it!
Wow it is way better now! Great video.
It really is getting much better - and the mods have not been very expensive.
Great upgrades and information, thank you 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Such a cool build!
Thanks!
This was very helpful to watch amazing ride
Glad it was helpful!
As always great info. What a great way to strengthen the drivetrain without going full metal axles. The performance difference from out of the box is profound. Great work!
Thank you! Yes, much better!
Very nice..You do a good job explaining things bro
Thank you! I try to be helpful!
Nice build it is looking good
Glad you like it! Not sure what else I should do to it at this point.
1:47 Every axle I have opened shows wear on the axle from those screws. I put it back together the way it is because I figure once it’s worn it’s been customized to fit those screws.
Ha! Self-clearancing for sure.
Nice video thank you for sharing!!😃
Thanks! I appreciate your support!
Great info and video
Thanks!
Great video. I like how you went through each step and even showed swapping those front links. I think the bomber would be awesome for U4 or scale ultra events.
I agree - that is a good place for it.
This is becoming an awesome build. I watched it at work so I missed some so I will definitely be watching it again when I get off work.
Glad you are liking it!
@@RoadsideRC I missed a lot of the crawl at work so I just got a chance to watch it and it’s a night and day difference already. Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Very nice ...! Looks great ! Making me want one . I bought another plane instead of bomber during the sell they had going on . V1200 is awesome but seeing this build is awesome . 🤘
I have never stepped into the plane world. Did a few drones, but never planes. Very tempting!
man i love this bomber
It is fun for sure!
i love this car good job
Thank you!
Turning nice 👍
It really is working out nicely!
wow my future truck is looking good.
:)
ha ha those manufacturers need you on staff to test their products
*left a big like👍Au👍full watched*
Yes they do - I AGREE! :)
...hopefully they are listening...
@@RoadsideRC If they are, they might be saying, “They are not *literally* made of spaghetti!” 6:54
:) think they might not like that?
Dang! Lookin good 👍🏻
Are you including the stock components in the giveaway? If you do someone is gonna have an awesome pile of extras, definitely like that link upgrade, between those and the axle tubes you definitely make the CG much better even if you hadn’t changed shock positions, but that lower stance make it look as mean as the “paint” job. You’re killin this build 🤙🏼
Yes - whatever I can fit in the box goes with it.
wow, tihs bomber is killer, i like it a lot!!😎👍🖖
It surprised me with how well it did!
your backyard course is really cool Troy, I live in a more rural area and am able to find natural obstacles and small courses to run. That reminds me of something like American ninja warrior but for rc cars haha
Ha! Ninja Warrior Crawling!
Nice to see the RR10 is still available. I bought the full kit version some years ago so it had all the metal suspension parts, metal gears, better shocks and tyres as standard if I remember correctly. I put some chunky brushless motor in it just on 2S but it's performed much better that I thought it would; I think the batteries I'm using are 3800s and I get like 20mins+ run time out of it. I haven't really used it as much as I had planned to but it's been a heap of fun when I do. My first servo stripped out almost straight away so I put a decent all metal geared one in and it's been trouble free ever since. I've never adjusted the suspension positions to lower it so you have me thinking about that now. Mine has never displayed that torque steer effect to any degree. Is it worth looking at adding sway bars too?
Thanks for the detailed comment.
I actually have the sway-bar kit, sitting in the bag, on my workbench.
I keep delaying putting it in as the truck does rather well now with these changes.
Heck - I even took 2nd place in a local crawler comp with it!
Looked awesome man to help with that steering linkage clearance offset link ends I'll shoot you a link
OK - thanks!
The lower look...looks way better!!
AGREE 100%
Like the detailed information you give. Question,will the C hubs & rear lock outs from a scx10 fit on the Bomber? They look very similar & I have a set laying around and I just bought a used Bomber from a swap
I don't believe the SCX parts will fit - it shares the design with the Wraith / SMT10.
Nice 😎😎👍👍
Thank you!
Were you able to get the rear aluminum axle braces in without sanding down the thicker lip on the axle half-shafts?
I did have to sand them down just a small amount
The problem with adding another pair of rear shocks or a sway bar limits the crawling twist. Do my upgrade and you get no torque twist, and more suspension articulation for crawling. I figured it out!!
Awesome! This truck is long-since gone, but the changes I made ended up being good for the time I had it.
Did you only sleeve the front axle, or did I miss the rear install? Reason I ask is that I've seen numerous accounts of the rear axles not fitting the axle tubes without grinding the larger diameter sections near the differential ends of the rear axles. Just wondering if you encountered that issues, or if perhaps you only did the front. Thanks.
I did front and rear.
Both required a small amount of grinding on the axle. Didn't show it because of how little it was.
I'm still surprised that Axial haven't made their own axle tubes yet. It's well known that the AR60s are better with them.
Agree!
Okay one last comment to prevent your rollover while you're driving your rock crawler like a race car 🙄 you can add sway bars and sway bar links to these cars and limit straps,
sorry to if I'm sounding condescending dude, I'm just trying to hook a brother up✊🏻
oh and by the way I build the real things for a living in my Jeep modification shop, so even though I'm a newbie to the RC world
I'm not to the off-road four-wheel drive King of the Hammers bomber car world 😎👍
The most common way folks use these bombers is as Rock Racers - even says it on the side of the box.
Yes - sway bars are one of the most common modifications folks do to them to help.
Those definitely seemed like necessary upgrades.
Yes they were!!!
That tie rod is supposed to bend like that it's your fail safe, it will keep you from busting your knuckles now that you put a stiffer one up there the next week is point is your knuckles , and that's what you will possibly break next 😉👉
I'm really glad you are here to help. I look forward to what all you add to the RC community.
Do you have a Bomber? I have not actually understood that from all of your comments.
In the previous iteration I had of this vehicle,, I attempted to keep as many of the stock links as possible, to allow the flex. Then - after my truck kept getting turned into a pretzel out on course, I finally broke down and swapped them over to metal. Guess what - nothing else broke. The truck just overall performed better.
I realize that you may have great 1:1 experience, but I HIGHLY suggest you watch and listen to folks who have been doing this in 1:10 for awhile before you judge what is happening.
Those lower thingies🙄 that you call links , are supposed to bend Flex to keep you from breaking important shit, every one of these videos people complain about the same thing I guess they don't understand the importance of flexing, and the correct terminology for that would be your lower control arms and then you have your upper control arms and I'm a newbie at this but I don't understand why you people insist on not using correct terminology for the parts on these cars🤔, sorry I don't mean to sound like I'm ragging on you I'm Not"
it's just the incorrect terminology for these bomber parts are driving me crazy.
When you look up the parts - they are literally named "links" by the manufacturer. When you search for the parts, they are literally called "links". Me using that terminology helps the folks find the parts.
If you search for "control arms" instead of "links", you will find less results.