(splashing)
- [Narrator] Man, what a beautiful day out on the trail.
Now being from Canada, I'm used to seeing snow and ice
in late November.
In fact, I've gotten off pretty easy.
There's barely any here.
But check it out my friends, the ACE One.
At the time of this filming this was still pre-released.
Due out in the next few weeks from what I understand.
But I did do an unboxing video of this
going over the truck in great detail.
I will link the video in this video of course
either in the video description box down below
or via a card for you guys to be able to see in the video.
Now, look at this.
A lot of questions.
A lot of things people want to see with this truck today
so I'm going to do my best to oblige.
I was hoping to keep it kind of clean
but I know you guys are excited to it so let's do it.
(running stream)
(triumphant music)
(wench spooling)
(wheels whirling)
Now here's a major root system.
You guys can't really see how big this is
but it's snarled and gnarly in there
and the rise is about ... eh, a good 25 feet.
I figure this would be a good place
to see its climbing ability
as well as a little bit of articulation.
(wheels whirling)
Now I do have a two stage transmission.
I am in low gear right now.
Switch it up to high to give me some wheel speed.
See if I can back up and over.
There we go, power.
Much longer wheel base so I have quite a bit of clearance
when coming over a large hump like this.
I think I'm going to back it up just to show you guys
how much of an extreme climb that really is.
The camera does it zero justice.
So right here, up over this hump, the root,
and of course all this looks super easy.
It is but normally a lot of the rigs get hung up right here.
Where this one seems to have more of the clearance.
Anybody that comes to this hill will concur.
(chuckles)
And this climb doesn't look tough at all
but it's all on an angle that's quite steep.
You guys can see it there, a little.
I'm going to attempt to go up there
basically with some speed.
You guys are facing up the hill
so it's making it look less severe for sure.
(wheels whirling)
Back into low gear.
Let's go up there to see some of the fight.
Yeah, that definitely shows the angle better.
I'm currently caught on the back.
Not really making an effort at the moment though
to get over it.
It's that area right there.
So I may need some more wheel speed.
So I'm going to back off a little bit here
and take a run at it.
A little bit more.
Yes, keep crawling.
Facing straight down now.
Still in low gear.
Beautiful.
No problem.
Eh, of course a lot of viewers were asking for
an articulation test on this
so we might as well see what we can do right here.
There we go.
Up on the rock please, on the ridge.
Okay now there is full flex right there.
You'll see the back tire is still on the ground.
Beautiful flex shot.
Lots of articulation
and the rear is still down.
I would say that's probably max.
We're getting there right now.
You know, not too bad.
I'm actually pretty happy with that.
Let's actually drive right out of that.
See if we can side hill it.
Pretty good.
Okay, now here is where people were talking about
the steering wire getting in the way
and is it going to be a concern.
Possibly.
Look at this.
Here is where it's getting caught
just like what everybody would say it was.
Now it's gonna roll.
Now is it gonna snap eventually?
Possibly, but I can't speculate right now.
So even though I know it's there.
What I'm going to do is back up my truck like this.
Simply kinda save my steering for the moment.
Great, nice and stable.
So even if that cable does break,
it's good to see innovation.
I'm glad to some creativity
other than the steering rods that are always up front.
But we'll see how long this cable last
and how I drive it.
Right now I've got a three cell light bulb in there.
It is a 3800 series.
It fits perfectly into the battery slot.
So here's a pretty cool rock crawling maneuver attempt.
Up over this uh ridge, over.
We're going to try to climb up on this ridge right here.
To put it in perspective, there is my radio.
Whoops.
There is the radio height.
Up here, I'm going to try to climb up on to this ridge.
It is very, very steep.
There, perspective wise.
So up,
up,
and somewhere up here.
My goal is to end up up here no matter how I do it.
All right, up and over.
There, I'd like to be there.
I'd like my rear right tire
to go up on the rock diagonally as well.
Oh! Kinda like that but not quite.
Abusing it.
Testing the drive line.
Oh, almost.
Ah, my first scratches guys.
I did it for you.
Look at this, right on the hood.
You're like, "I can't even see them."
Right there.
Ahhh, right there and across.
But you know what, no good rock balancer
should ever be left unscratched.
(wheels whirling)
I'm getting turned around.
(wheels whirling)
Oh, almost.
Okay more wheel speed, second gear.
Well, for today's video it seems that this
is going to be too high.
Now I never have done this one to any of my other vehicles.
But I thought it was a good attempt at least.
Ay, I could put helper rock in there
or I can take this opportunity to use the wench.
Now this wench from Capo actually has a free spool on it.
It was not part of the kit.
It would be an extra cost if you guys did build it.
You'll notice I took off the lights today
only because I knew I'd be rock bouncing.
I didn't want to break them off.
So let's go ahead and do the switch for free spool.
Which is just this little toggle right here
that basically disengages the wench from the gear
against a spring so it is spring loaded.
Then I can take this.
Simply undo it.
What I'm going to do is I do have a rock
that's up here, used for wenching.
I would assume.
That's what I'm going to use it for.
(laughing)
And hopefully I can wench myself up and over.
Okay, so I am running the wench with a remote control.
Out and in.
What I'm going to be doing is I'm wenching it in,
I'm also going to be using throttle
to start crawling up the rock.
Here we go.
Now I'm going to want to be careful
of the fair lead as well because as it wraps
it's gonna wanna wrap it in a funny way.
I don't want it to wrap around the spool
so if I was a driver I'll be getting out
ensuring that my cable wasn't wenching in a funny way.
(wheels whirling)
A ha and we are up.
Now not over wrapping that wench line
but you can see we're all the way up.
I'll undo the wench line.
Wouldn't be nice if you just move
big rocks around to help you wench?
(laughing)
Okay so one of the things I've noticed about
when I was wenching in real world scenario here,
this fair lead opening is too wide.
So as the cable comes over and starts
to pull on an angle.
It'll start to spool outside of the wench.
Like on the outside of the spool there
so be careful it's never worth jamming up your wench.
Of course, you know, cos then you gotta cut the line
and restring it.
So if you get a chance, and that's the beauty of R/C,
you can go ahead and just move the cable
if it's going to wrap itself weird.
Now we are up on the rock.
We'll be attempting the slow crawl.
(wheels whirling)
Oh, stuck right away.
This is pretty extreme too though.
Ahhh, looks like my slipper clutch does need a tightening.
Yeah, that's going to be an extreme ...
Don't give up Budachka.
Arghhh (chuckles)
(wheels whirling)
Oh, come on, you know you want it.
I'm gonna have to attempt that again.
I'm too far down the wall.
(wheels whirling)
Ohhh, hard hit.
How did it take it?
How does it hurt?
I notice the hood comes undone pr ... fairly quickly.
Another huge scratch but that's okay.
Maybe if you lick it, it goes away.
And it does, until it dries, and it's still scratched.
(chuckles)
Okay so that front latch is doing good.
I think next time I'm going to go out
I'm going to put some double-sided tape
and make sure this can stay down.
Well I'd say that I failed on the lines that I picked.
They were pretty extreme.
Not making any excuses but it's not like
I'm the best driver in the world either
but overall, not bad.
I think it has potential.
I just gotta practice with it more.
Did get it scratched up
but it's time to move on to the trail.
(wheels whirling in slow motion)
(running creek)
Okay so my goal is to make it up to here.
By this point in the hill, it's basically straight up.
And then I'm going to try to get it up to here,
turn around, and then be able to come back down
without rolling the rig, is my hope.
Got to climb this to get up here.
Here we go.
(wheels whirling)
Ahhh, my slipper clutch.
It's definitely slipping so I need some maintenance
Ah, but after a first build, not really a surprise.
Ohhh!
Oh yeah, you heard it but I stopped it with the old leg.
(chuckles)
What if I switched gears?
Low gear.
No, same thing.
It's just that slipper clutch
I think that's giving me the issue right now.
In here I'm way up here.
Wuhhh. (breathing heavily)
Okay, time to turn it around.
Without rolling it. (laughs)
I wonder.
Even with a bad slipper clutch.
Can you do it brother?
Just ... I'm on half throttle right now.
There we go, there we go.
That's basically to the root system right there.
It ain't going anywhere pass there big, huge roots come out.
Right on, I'm happy.
Whoa, woo, whoa it's just sliding.
(chuckles)
There.
♫ I hate having a bad back.
♫ I'm glad I'm wearing my back brace.
(chuckles)
Woo hoo!
Everybody's like, "Ah, my tracks are slash or ..."
You know, "anything would beat that up the hill
but it is super severe and yeah speed totally does help
but the art of the slow crawl
is really what I was after today.
Okay, so I'm gonna ...
Well if I put it in free spool
then it's not gonna have any drag brake.
I think that's a mistake if I don't go pass the rocks first.
Come on, don't brake, that's the secret,
don't brake, there we go.
There, right on.
Okay guys, so there you go.
There is your look of the Capo ACE One.
My steering is still working.
I did have to be careful sometimes
not to really put a lot of stress on the bottom.
And even though I scratched her up on the rocks
a little bit, I think it was totally worth it
just so you guys can have a good show, right?
(laughs)
Guys, I hope you were inspired as always to get outside.
Go into the wilderness, have some exercise.
Get out and enjoy the hobby of R/C.
It really is something that, that brings the world together.
Brings the community together and if you feel so inclined,
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Bye.
(wheels whirling)
Right to the end of the battery in high gear.
(laughs)
Cyclone!
Let's go home.