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Here's a pic of the Jeep body on the chassis. I'm still wanting to add a front metal grill thing and some metal exhaust pipes on the sides, attached to the black body tabs where the silver clips normally go. You can see a muffler next to the truck; I cut it off a metal Stampeder chassis with a dremel cutting disc. It made a lot of sparks, lol.
I tried fitting the Layman's button cells in there, but no luck; the battery compartment is just too small. You could do it with some dremeling, but that defeats the purpose of the super-easy Layman's mod. But there's plenty of room below this body to add extra cells, as you can see. I could fit three batt's up top. However, I think I'm going to dremel out some space in the lower battery compartments to hold a 1/3AA battery. It's the same length (16mm) but is wider in diameter. I'd also put at least one more under the body for 3-4 cells. These 1/3AA's are an unbelievable 300mAh, so I'm really hoping I can get them to fit. Should be no problem with all this extra space; in fact, I think there will be room leftover for LED's+batt+power switch.
Also, I've got to get some kind of rollbar going. This thing has such great torque, but it's going to waste because the truck flips backwards when going over tall obstacles. Maybe we could find some even bigger wheels to use. Adding weight in the front might help some. Anyone tried anything to reduce flipping yet?
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