- [RCSparks] All right, raspy voice and all.
Guys, I have a little bit of laryngitis.
I'm sorry, but some of the haters will be like, "Yay!"
(RCSparks laughs)
Well, I'm still gonna talk the heck out of this video
because my new truck is finally here.
I still have to finish it,
but Semi Joe, you may remember him
from me getting the six-by-six Steiger.
Semi Joe has been in the RC business
making semi-trucks and lots of neat machinery
since the '80s.
Look at this, super heavy, heavy truck, custom Aerodyne.
Look at the cab, guys.
This is what Semi Joe is really known for, breaking apart
and his custom styring work, making trailers,
or not trailers, making actual complete trucks to order.
You have an idea, he can build it for you.
Look at this front rubar, push bar, push guard,
whatever you wanna call it.
Super thick.
I mean, this is usually unseen.
I've always loved the cab over style.
I've never had one.
I've been planning on this for quite some time now, where,
if you guys don't know, if you haven't followed
my KOBELCO build, or seen the KOBELCO colored trailer
I have down there on the floor,
you guys missed Loading Wars and the build videos.
(RCSparks laughs)
But you will know what color this truck is going to be.
It's gonna be a complete set, my friends.
All the (mumbles) accessories
that Semi Joe could put on here are here.
This is all aluminum back here.
These are metal.
These are all metal.
I thought these were the plastic ones.
Of course not.
They're metal.
This control board is for the GT Power Pro that's in here,
which basically is an electronic speed control.
It's also a vibration module.
It's a sound module and a light manager,
so different sound and modules, much like the Tamiya MFU,
but this offers a lot more function at a lower cost,
so this is a custom plate that he built
to put this in here.
You guys will see, I'm gonna end up building
a styring window that goes in to fill this in,
but I wanted to paint everything first.
I'll have to take all this off, but to show you guys,
I wanted to have it all on there so you could see.
All metal ladders, amazing.
Let me take the cab off so we can show you underneath.
Ta da.
Look at the inside work.
All completed.
He asked me, he's like, "Do you want me to"
"mount up all the lights,"
"or do you want to paint it first?"
And, of course, for me, I'm gonna paint it first.
Here's the roof lamps in the front
where the drivers can sit,
and I know a lot of you are in shock right now,
as am I, when I took this out.
I've been doing a lot of building lately,
and when your hands are full and you know people
that do extravagant jobs like I do with Semi Joe here,
you make sure to contact your network,
and to get them to help you
because his work is bar none
some of the best I've ever seen.
Look at this separate tank.
So this is an actual hydraulic reservoir.
There's a flow pin on the bottom.
Here's a pin on top, so if I ever wanted to put in
a crane or anything like that, I could do that.
This back fifth wheel release plate
all of it aluminum, aluminum, in fact,
let's have a look underneath.
This will actually shock you guys.
Okay, number one, let's look at the tire tread.
I know a lot of you are like, "What?"
Those are individual (mumbles).
Look, individual little pieces here.
This is a Lessu tire.
This is the long haul tire.
You can see there.
Love these spikes from RC4WD guys.
Look at that.
There's the wheel nut, all aluminum wheels.
Of course, one of the things I haven't even addressed yet
that you're all looking at is that this has
dual steering on the front.
(RCSparks laughs)
Dual steering, my friends.
Here's one servo right here.
Turns this whole column, or I shouldn't call it a column,
but it kind of is, and the same set up front here.
Look at this, 80-turn motor in there.
Brush turn, brushed.
If you understand motors, you'll understand
that that motor is so torquey, and so slow,
that it must have a different type transmission.
It does.
This is an RC4WD monster truck transmission.
It's a nine, or a 9-1 ratio, I believe,
and then the long, super long drive shaft,
all the way to the back.
Aluminum housings for the axles, and a short drive shaft.
So these back tires here, man, they feel so amazing.
That syping on there feels exactly what you think.
It kind of tickles the thumb a little bit.
(RCSparks laughs)
You know you've got an RC addiction problem
when you're starting to talk like that.
Hey, there's the control board underneath.
Let's flip it back and put the battery in,
and even though the GT Power Pro can take a three-cell lipo,
I've only got two-cell in there.
Turn that on.
Immediately come on the safety lights.
Good to go.
I do have the windows and all the extra stuff to put on,
but, of course, I won't be doing that until I paint it.
Here's my radio.
It's primed and ready,
and I've just gotta flick the up switch, or the up stick.
(truck beeps)
(truck engine roars)
Yes, it's a alive.
Then, the steering.
(truck engine roars)
(truck beeps)
(RCSparks laughs)
(truck engine roars)
I love hearing it.
Oh, yeah baby.
(truck engine roars)
(truck beeps)
Yeah, I'm so excited.
It's almost done.
(truck engine roars)
All right, let's put it on the ground
and have a look at it with the trailer.
There's the Kobelco that I recently put together
with my friends.
The Lessu, the Komatsu is
what it was supposed to be, the PC360.
Gonna get picked up here by the Aerodyne.
Too cool.
Now, off camera, I did just switch out the motor.
I know that the RC4WD motor
that I used in there and pinion combo
was going to be not strong enough
even though it's an 80-turn
to pull a big, heavy machine like this
weighing about 40 pounds, just under that,
so I switched over to a 550 can.
It's slightly larger, which gives it about 30% more torque,
and an eight-tooth pinion, and then, of course,
the beautiful trailer on the back.
I worked on this off camera.
I introduced it on Loading Wars a few weeks ago.
That's all wood burning that I had done,
plus I finished the wood there
with just a nice varathane clear coat.
I love these wheels.
Check them out.
Not only do they rock forward and backward,
but also, left and right, so they pivot individually,
which means it can go over any kind of terrain
as long as you've got the clearance.
Gotta have a pretty flat, padded dirt though
to pull anything out outside.
Okay, well, let's get it started up and loaded out.
You'll hear that it sounds like the pinion
is a little bit tight.
It's actually not that at all.
It's just the motor and the pinion
on that transmission itself,
it does have a two-millimeter gap
in between the pinion and the spur.
(truck engine roars)
Yeah, roll out.
(truck engine roars)
Wow.
This thing is a torque monster now.
Dang.
I love it.
(truck engine roars)
(RCSparks laughs)
It roars by.
It sounds all raspy like I do today.
(truck engine roars)
One-handed filming,
one hand backing up on the dual stick, yeah.
Okay, let's load up.
(truck engine roars)
(excavator squeals)
Gonna have to be creative here.
Always a showman, though.
(excavator squeals)
I should turn down the expo on here.
Try to get a little bit smoother on the controls.
(excavator squeals)
It's just lack of practice on this new machine here,
but that's going well.
There we go.
(excavator squeals)
Just gonna swing it around,
lift my tracks up, and then walk it back.
(excavator squeals)
Here we are.
The beautiful part about this trailer is
it's actually made for the excavator.
You see at the front what I mean.
There, let's curl the bucket out.
Oh, that's not gonna allow it because of the pivot arm.
(excavator squeals)
There, it fits nice there, hey?
Nice and snug.
Well, there you go, guys.
I hope you've enjoyed the look at today's truck.
We're gonna pull her away outta here,
and I think the set is gonna look amazing,
once I paint it the coral and the light gun metal in black.
What do you guys think?
Do you like the idea of the set?
What color would you paint it?
I know a lot of people will be like, "Paint it black,"
"black," but I don't want another black truck.
I've got one.
I want one that's more easy to see,
and I think the set would look great.
The trailer, the excavator, and the Aerodyne.
(truck beeps)
(truck engine roars)
Now, I have to figure out how to make windows
out of styring.
(truck engine roars)
Oh, yeah.
It's like one-eighth throttle.
(truck engine roars)
See you later.
Woo hoo.