Long shot: low budget parts for custom truck
Posted: September 21st, 2011, 2:36 pm
Building a custom truck from scratch on a very small budget. I am looking for people's cast-offs and stuff from 'junk piles' that you may never use. "One man's trash is another's treasure" type stuff.
My project is a Ford F150 street truck, NOT a race truck. I am trying to make it look like a generically scale truck, not all tube frame/cage. I have a 43cc electric start pocket-bike engine and a fiberglass body.
Here is a short list on the stuff I especially need:
wheels and tires
rear-end (preferably drive-shaft driven, not sprocket, preferably with diff.)
shiftable gearbox, maybe with reverse?
"cheap" radio system, 2 or more channel, ANY freq. for now, but preferably 2.4 or 5.8 GHz etc.
steering servo/actuator
shocks/absorbers
tierods and ends, linkages, etc.
Please post pictures to this thread of anything you're willing to offer to a low-budget newbie and if it's not something I can use maybe someone else will buy it? Win win?
Michael.
My project is a Ford F150 street truck, NOT a race truck. I am trying to make it look like a generically scale truck, not all tube frame/cage. I have a 43cc electric start pocket-bike engine and a fiberglass body.
Here is a short list on the stuff I especially need:
wheels and tires
rear-end (preferably drive-shaft driven, not sprocket, preferably with diff.)
shiftable gearbox, maybe with reverse?
"cheap" radio system, 2 or more channel, ANY freq. for now, but preferably 2.4 or 5.8 GHz etc.
steering servo/actuator
shocks/absorbers
tierods and ends, linkages, etc.
Please post pictures to this thread of anything you're willing to offer to a low-budget newbie and if it's not something I can use maybe someone else will buy it? Win win?
Michael.