Team Avery's Bully #3

After building my son's Jarred and Dave bullys and driving them ,I had to have one. I 'll be building Ricky Jr one soon too. Team Avery will be a Bully Team.

I got my Light weight axles and got them all greased up and lock tight on all the screws.




We all have the JPcustom's Hellstrom chassis, I really like this chassis. The adjustablty of this chassis rocks. I'll be using JP's lower and upper links. I'm also going to use RC4WD's titanium hardware.



I reworked the lower links a little and rounded off all the edges.

Is it gonna be ready by Saturday??????

chad30w wrote:Is it gonna be ready by Saturday??????

I don't think so.

Here's a couple of pics with the links on , lots more room on the case and motor. They didn't take any of the front steering throw away either.











I also bent the uppers a little and they clear the case a lot better during articulation.

It's a roller and feels real nice, I like the way it coming out.







Here's the flex shot ,that bottle is 7" tall . Real smooth during articulation.

Looking good Rick! I'm waiting on my Torquemaster ESC from Holmes to finish my Bully Build. I went with the Beetlejuice chassis I got in a trade with JP lower links. I like how you re-worked the lower links! Thinking of a chassis change to the Hellstorm though due to all the great feedback i've seen on it!

Another nice build! I guess I'm going to have to build a MOA rig.

I saw the body on RCC, it looks sick aswell!

Well I'm getting started on my eletronics, The 1st thing I wanted to do is mount the battery up front as far as I could and I didn't want to tie it to any of my links ,lower or uppers. So I made this tray out of lexan and drilled and taped 2 screws hole in the skid.













It fit in there real nice and with the batery in there it didn't affect the links at all during articulation.







I made the same kind of tray for the dig switch and used the same two holes to mount it to the skid, it sticks out the back.

I put the JH esc in the middle. My battery,esc,dig switch all sit below my upper links.

I made a little shelf for the receiver and it's the only thing above the links.







Now that I know where everything is going ,I put the motors in and wire this rig up.

I got my wiring done and drove it around in the house, Can't wait for the snow to melt so I can find the rocks and try this thing out. It's real peppy, Can pull a good wheelie.

Wiring came out pretty neat.





Got some yellow motor guards to match the body. They are held on with 1 zip tie and the teflon chassis protector tape.





I'm ready to go crawl and dail this rig in.

Videos of said wheelies?????

chad30w wrote:Videos of said wheelies?????

I got the weight down to 5lbs 8.5 oz. I might add a little weight if it's not balanced the weight I like it.

Wheelies are COOOOOOLLLLLLLL

Looking good Rick!! I was going to run the Beetlejuice chassis, but bought a Hellstrom off RCC..... only thing is it's the 2.75 skid, but mocked up I like it's stance.... could always get the 2" skid later!

I thought I'd show how much clearance I ended up with after bending my links, this is at a full twist. And no spacer on the link mount ,which in turn gave me a little more steering room.

Becky and I went a way for the weekend and I found a little time to crawl, 1st time on the rocks and I'm liking it. I'll get more up soon.

I did notice the rear links got a little caught up on some pointed rocks on the edge of those undercuts. Might not happen very offend but I did a little more mods to the lower links. I rounded the bottom a little.



Before









After

I got to go out to the test spot and see how she does. It's working pretty good, Being so light at 5.5 lbs is different for me. I might need a little weight up front or something.



Tell me what you think it needs and why.

Well I went out today and I made one change and it fixed it. It work better every where else too, but here a video of the same sidehill. I want to thank Joesbrusier for the tip. All I did is move my back link up one hole at the chassis and added a little squat. Still havn't added any weight and still at 5.5 lbs.

The biggest problem I had with my Bully was the steering. I've been working on this for a while now.
This is my 5th and final prototype, Here's a couple of pics. I made most of it with derlin. It will be aluminum when it's done. It's going to the machinest now .
I'm going to make a kit available.

Does the kit only turn right ????or will it be offered as a left and right turn kit??? lol

chad30w wrote:Does the kit only turn right ????or will it be offered as a left and right turn kit??? lol

That will be extra.

I'm going to test out my steering this weekend at Disney Double Down weekend. We'll see how the Derlin does.
Here's some more pics,
I made a servo mount, shock mount and link mount all in 1 , the other side of the servo mounts to the bottom of the new link mount I made.





Before and after shots.

Looks really nice!