In fact we are only one more side-foul away from losing the entire truck into the log burner. That's something I'll have to cover off later, and I have a kind of plan for it, but losing some ground clearance is inevitable at this stage. I've seen another member try to foul up their King Blackfoot with a similar design before, and I'm aware that this type of plan puts a lot of delicate stuff under the truck and below the level of the standard skid plate. I present: Clusterfoul B, in which I modify my plates so they fit underneath instead of on top. So - now that Clusterfoul A has failed, I have to find a whole new way of fouling it up. I briefly considered fitting a 4wd C-hub and hexes, but the front end is giving me enough grief as it is and I don't want to have to buy new wheels as well. The Wild Willy 2 and Blitzer Beetle use the exact same part, so no options there. I went through the parts bit looking for other steering hubs, but couldn't find anything with a monster truck stub axle. I had a few goes at turning it out, then pushing it out, then tapping it out, but it wasn't going anywhere. One way of solving this is to put a taller ball connector on the steering arm.Įxcept these ones aren't a screwed in, they're pressed (or possibly melted in during manufacture). It might not be the perfect donor part but it's definitely something. I fitted a slide rack to my D4, so this was going spare and I'd obviously intended to try to graft this on last time. It's a high Ackermann steering assembly that comes standard with the 3Racing Sakura D4 CS drift car. I found this lying around in the bottom of the KBF box. The centrally-mounted steering crank is at least a nod in the right direction, but the links are so long and the suspension arms so short that you can practically drive around a course just by pushing on the nose to make the wheels turn. My first plan is to attack the horrendous front suspension geometry, starting with the steering. In short, a bit battered and sorry-looking and generally quite tired This is how the truck looked when I pulled it out of its box: So we'll ignore those and skip straight to today. Looking at my photo history, I have a folder from July 2019 called "steering links" which probably points to the last time I tried to refresh this truck, but there is basically just one photo showing the stock steering assembly and then a totally random one with my daughter with chicken pox collapsed under a footstool in her nursery, which must have sneaked in there accidentally by being on the same camera roll. Back then it was wearing my re-re Brat body. These are the earliest pics I have - from April 2016, an uncharacteristically bright and sunny day at a local beauty spot. I absolutely love the chassis - I love how rugged it is, how it's never broken anything, how it was always the last truck still running at the Revival (even if it had usually lost a tyre and most of its body) and how much better the gearbox design is compared to earlier ORV trucks. Since then it has made regular appearances at Revivals, Tamiya Junkies meets and general bashes. Originally bought it from I seem to recall it was a cold and frosty late winter / early spring day and I went for a long motorcycle ride, stopping in at his place to pick up the truck, talk toy cars and have a look at his impressive collection of Willies. So instead, I decided to do a pro-mod rebuild on my King Blackfoot. I have been gathering parts for a leaf-sprung monster build, but I also have my Christmas Build MTX-1 on the go in the house, and I didn't want another complex monster truck build at the same time. Since I put the F150 Tow Truck to one side for a bit, I've got space on the bench to work on something else.
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