LARGE MONSTER TRUCK BRUSHLESS CONVERSION
I show you how I converted a large nitro RC truck to a brushless monster!
I decided to convert an old Tamiya TNX TGM 03 into a brushless bruiser!
Why? Well because at the the time I really wanted to have a large brush-less monster truck, I didn’t have the money to go out and buy one. So I set about buying a used chassis and this came up on ebay.
Before you proceed with a brushless conversion few things to consider are:
What type of chassis you are going t use?
What size motor you will need, do you want tourqe or speed?
Your Budget (maybe better to just buy something RTR)
Type of ESC required
Can you still buy parts for the chassis you are going to use?
As you can see from the picture with my cup of tea this truck is rather large, the plan was to convert to brush-less running on 4s lipo.
My Shopping list at the time, click links for recommended items
4068 Brushless motor 2050KV and mod 1 pinions
ESC
Traxxas T Maxx Shocks
Motor Mount
Spur Gear
Body
This is what i needed to get the truck in good order
The motor mount is slightly different to the one in the original picture I upgraded to that one later on, I can’t remember where I got the original one from.
So first thing first I needed to lock the gears in the drive shaft to 2nd Gear and make sure it went both ways (forward and backwards) some nitro gearbox’s have a one way bearing and you need to enable reverse gear. As this is electric and the motor will run both ways and do the breaking the gearbox needs to be locked
To do this I screwed a 5MM grub screw into the 2nd gear like so, this will lock out the gearbox.
Above are all the bits that you no longer need!
As the car will only use the one locked gear there is no point in keeping the rest of the stuff.
Once I had cleaned all the parts I started putting all back together pretty straight forward when you have the manual.
I rebuilt with sealed bearings these ones, for extra smoothness.
With the car back together it was time to give a quick test on 3S, see the video below.
This was a test on 3s Lipo battery, I had yet to fit the battery tray yet, and I think I was still waiting for the Traxxas shocks.
But I was happy how the truck was coming along, I then managed to fit the Traxxas shocks and the whole thing started to look great!
Once I had fitted the battery tray the truck was complete.
This project really helped me get a better understanding for the electronics on big RC’s and provided me with a brilliantly unique truck to bash with!