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actually you would need to increase the apature, you do not want to over expose the picture. You will probably want to try shooting at 1/80, and adjust the apature to compesate this.

A Hitec 645-mg will turn the wheels around just fine on most crawlers. There are better servos out there. But the 645's might be enough for your truck, they get my Jugg turned around just fine :P

Heres a picture of my Juggernaut. Since that picture I've added a gd600 and reversed the timing of my Mabuchi 540 motor. I still need to fab up some battery hold down system though. I am running a saddle pack under the tranny, right now they are just zip tied in place. And I shaved the lower...

Thanks guys :p It is a Expedition body, and the axles are locked front and back. The only thing thats stock on that truck from the TLT kit are the axles. I've put in a different tranny, shocks, and wheels on this truck. And it handles the rocks with ease.

This is one of several rc trucks I have. It's been through a few different setups and now I am fairly happy with it. I do have another crawler in the works right now as well. My other one is a Juggernaut which is quite a bit bigger then the little TLT truck.

Thanks guys, I am really happy with the results. The chrome grill on the black looked a little tacky. Now with the black grill it has a much more aggressive look to it. And thanks to everyone that gave their advice on how to paint the grill. As for the paints I used. I picked up Dupli-colors...

First some of you may remember these two pictures. After installing my billet fuel door I photoshoped one of the pictures I took of it. I changed the grill from chrome to a matte black color, leaving the emblem chrome. After that photoshop picture, painting the grill went from a "that would be...

Well since I got my Mountaineer the drivers side door lock rocker switch would never unlock the doors. But it would always lock just fine until recently. So today while doing a oil change I popped off the door panel and pulled the switch out. It looked pretty good, but I cleaned it up anyways...

Al, I seen your truck in my other thread in the body work forum. And thanks for the pics again, it helps inspire me even more. I am still trying to decide if I would rather sand the chrome or heat it off... I am a little worried with the Mountaineer grill that the heat could warp all the thin...

I have also been toying with the idea of painting my grill flat black, or matte. I played with this idea in photoshop last night and now I know I must do this as well. I am to see what options I have for paint locally and hopefully I can pull this off before the year is over. What do you...

Thanks guys, Clarkkent I picked it up at www.50resto.com Search for Fuel Door, its the Ford Racing Aluminum Fuel Door. There are a few threads about them if you search around too. One of the guys did paint his black too.

Well I got my Fuel door today. As soon as I got home I grabed some tools and got to work. The part that took the most time was just removing the two nuts from the old stock door. Then it took a couple minutes to file down the hinge slot on the Mountaineer, so the fuel door would sit in there...

You guys rock, I will test out this torch method on the spare emblem I have this weekend. Aldive did you you SEMS on your grill, or another brand of paint? I am planning on painting mine flat black as well. I still want some contrast against the black on the truck. And I am thinking flat...

Thanks guys, I'll look into the sems paint.

I would like to paint my grill black. I have a spare mountaineer emblem, so I wanted to test on that first. I flaked off a piece of chrome and found out it is coated in metal and actually dipped. I was hoping it would be a brittle finish that could be removed with chemicals. That is how I have...

search auto trader for local explorers that are close to yours. Around here the older sports go for about 1500.

One of those little things that I tend to ignore but it still bothers me. My rear wiper arm on my 91 mountaineer clunks and clacks when ever I used it. It makes its clunks at both ends of the pass, and a even louder clunk when it returns to the holder after it is turned off. Is this normal...

How did you test this 0-60 time?

Yeah, or on a black mountaineer :p The brushed silver should go well with the two tone gray on my mountaineer as well.

I think I probably will stick with the brushed look. I can always paint it later if I don't like it. But its hard to go back from the painted look

I just orded one up too at the lower price, and along with free shipping for the holiday shopping weekend :P 69.95 shipped to my work. Now to paint it or leave it with the brushed finish... Black mountaineer. Choices choices, either way it will look good.

Just a little update on this, months later and my insurance still has not gone up. I think from what I told them on the form and the police report I filled out. They could not decide who was at fault. I got very lucky with the insurance. I learned a leason with yellow lights too, I hope this is...

I used to leave my autolights set on with a minute delay. But I know park in the front yard and the lights aim right into our basment windows. So I don't use it to often anymore.

I have some passengers that have finally figured out that they need to wait to get out until I am done with the windows. Most though get out to soon but I tend to adjust the windows before I turn the truck off. I did recently notice though with the factory radio if I have it turned up loud...

Boatbuilder, I love your 97 Mountaineer. I think mine will need some bigger tires once I can afford them. Crankcase, that was a minivan that was parked in the same lot, I tried to keep it out of the pictures but it slipped into that one on the reflection. And they towed the white one off...