All right, so here. It is finally on my bench. I've had so many viewers asked me a medic
Have you heard that traxxas has the new?
Trx for scale trail crawler, and my answer is of [course]. I have I've been watching this since the beginning now
I'm certainly not the [first] unbox this on YouTube, but because we've had so many requests for me to do this
Give the whole truck an overview basically
I thought I'd share my experience here with you guys today
And I have to say as I've been following along with this build [it] looks to be even though
I am a traxxas fan. Don't get me wrong
This looks like one of the most well thought-out
Ready-to-Run Trail crawlers on the market so Far now
I know a lot of people may be disagreeing with me on this but I think the research and development
area of traxxas certainly went through and added a lot of the things that most of us are looking for
In a scale trail truck, so you know I could go into great detail, but I think we should discover this ourselves
Land Rover above and Beyond this is the defender now. We've seen so many defenders out there
It's kind of been done to death a little bit in my opinion
[but] on the other hand when I look at the accessories [that] this one comes with already
Like the front bars the Windshield bar and of course the back
I'm assuming that it's all plastic of course
But just to be able to have a snorkel the only other trail kit that I know that comes with a snorkel
Or an rTR is a komodo
From G made so to be able to see all these extra scale accessories come out and not have to be sold after
That's a big plus already because I want to spend my money on other things like tires and just things to you know like I
Could always trick it out as much as I wanted to but when you can unbox something and it looks good right [off] the bat
It makes you want to go out and play no
This is all my opinion of course you guys can say or do whatever you want. I ended up getting the grey one I?
Like the looks of grey it crawls well plus it also hides a lot of dirt and [scratch] and stuff even though it's Lexan hey
Everything still shows
scratches and whatnot on Lexan but overall
I'm just happy to see that the kit looks so well now I can cover some of the box you want me to
Tracks its link enabled the [Tq] like top qualifier. You can actually link into your smartphone on
[iphone] at least that I know of it says here google play and Android I guess
So you can see all the the speedometer and all that stuff. This is a standard traxxas thing that we see more and more now
One of the things that you're going to need of course
With most are trs or ready to run models is a battery if you don't have a battery and the charger
Chances are your trail truck is not going [to] come with one, but what it does include
the Trx - for ready to drive with the license body the four channel radio the
Xl - 5 HV
Waterproof Esc a brushed 21 turn
[550] can motor a few tools and of course the instruction book Bob Nobb dog gets the opening
There's a lot of people that ask me to go into detail though
And [I] want you to let me know in the comment section down below if you like more
detailed things or if you just want me to rip into these boxes and get through it now keep in mind the one with the
Most up votes the comment with the most up votes. [I'll] pin that one so we can see for the next unboxing video
Maybe I can appeal
Your needs that way, but I got a [giant] like a kid at Christmas time holy cow look at this spare tire on the back
[Gasp] can a
Jack
Christmas in June when you get a new model like this
Super Super slick, okay classic Standard
Traxxas style here. It looks like the body may come off before you can actually take off the bag
Let's have a look one up top
so one [in] the front one up in the back for a body can and
Well, there's a [double] [knot] the exercise
This is my first look in person at the Chassis. [I] love that
It's not a re-release. It's like a complete new design
Traxxas waterproof servos everything about the Rig is waterproof
I'm assuming other than the
Bearings which you always got to be careful and check your bearings and oil it and all that stuff let me get get you in
Up closer, and you and I to discover this together [oh]
Man [alright], [let's] start off at the front and give you guys kind of the full experience that I can through the camera
So it looks like there's a winch on here, but I [think] this is actually a [placeholder]
Definitely like it looks like a winch but from the back you can see it's actually just molded plastic
But it does move around so I'm sure you can take it off
Fairly built right into the bumper
Plastic hooks all of this is plastic up front here
Looks to have some pretty good give to it feels a little bit Grainy but smooth overall
Let's see moving on to the tires look at this these are
1.9
Traxxas branded Canyon Trail Tires
The the tread on them pretty good doesn't look too bad. It looks like [it'll] be able to empty some mud out
it's got a pretty thick tread nothing out of the ordinary though and overall a
Pretty Sticky Tire now I can hear that these are breathable, so if I was going in water myself
I'd want to take a piece of electrical tape or whatever and just cover the one or two holes it may have I haven't looked
Yet, but one for sure
That way you don't suck any of the river water or mud [or] anything into the tire kind of get unbalanced?
[what] do we have on the first axle well first thing?
I have to point out that's brand new for any kind of truck like this is portal axles
portal axles actually look at the clearance on this holy cow, so
You know that's pretty good
The portal axles actually raised that axle tube up and away
I'll cover portal axles in an upcoming video just to get it in more detail
But I want you guys to be able to see the truck in hole but not like a 30-minute video
remote
locking differentials, so you can have on the sly four-wheel drive or
they also have a [two-speed] transmission in here as well, and
Servos the waterproof plastic servos they have in here look you guys can see it on this side right here
Pretty common servo you got to be a little bit careful with these I haven't seen the design of this truck
Maybe they're very well protected
They do have servo savers on the top, but I know a tendency if you hit it too [hard]
I had it in my summit quite a bit those gears are very small and tend to snap
But I'm not saying that in this truck as I have no experience, but upfront check it out. You can't really see it
It's not there classic blue, but this is a waterproof
metal gear servo for the steering and the way
It's mounted up on that on the ladder frame is [very] cool like here the shock hangers right here
Leading down into aluminum shocks
The Springs feel pretty normal or average, but at least you can adjust the ride height through the collar right?
so that's a [guide] people a lot of people ask me how do you raise your
Scale truck and a lot of them don't know that this collar actually is on a threaded post and as you move it it it
increases or decreases the firmness of the spring [they're]
Very cool. I see a panhard bar there to help with
Axle stability on the side you can't help but notice not only do they have the running board here
But they also have like an extended tray off of the ladder frame here
Which will help with mud splashing up. I would imagine there is the 21 turn 550 [tighten] motor
And the ESC that it comes with yes, you can take up to a 3 s lipo battery
21 turn means, it's going to have quite a bit of speed
[I] wonder with the [two-stage] transmission if it's going to have enough torque in mud
But I'm sure they've tested out
Hey all of us are in the hobby to mod and upgrade anyway
Just to get it rolling out of the box [I] can add the lat
Here is the lipo battery tray
It's nice and long looks like it can take at least a five thousand Milliamp
If not a little bit bigger, but I'll have to test this says 26 millimeters up here
body posts are not
individual each
Front and back kind of like the slash and other versions of their body
Where it's just one piece that will slide into a square receiver?
Same on the back body post here as you can see as well
Wow back bumper Mount Kinda
it's not straight across for the brace kind of dropped down a little bit here and
back into a bumper where it looks like you you can add a hitch if you want if you want to pull a trailer or
Boat I'm like stuck on the stance of [the] truck
Look at this
It's quite high compared to other vehicles that are stock, but I want to compare it in future videos to the other vehicles. I have
To see you know exactly it's a little bit wider. I think as well
Look at this neat feature on the servos. You can see the servo horn
Comes out to this Rod end
Which is attached to a cable the cable that is one on the front and one [on] the back
This is how they get their remote locking discs to work very very very cool
Aluminum Links on the bottom it looks like a familiar type of driveshaft
I've seen before with the spline system in the middle connecting these two on either side
I believe gem just built some just like this or similar at least
Into the back all the Rod ends are plastic
But the the actual rods selves are aluminum, so that's cool. Got some strength there and
Is it heavy [I] don't I wouldn't really call it. Heavy yeah
It's hard to say what that dry weight is without actually looking at the specs, but maybe three pounds doesn't feel too. Heavy
[the] body I want to see the body don't we all want to see the body when something fresh and new is ready. [yeah]
Look at that bumper. Ball. Let me move all this [stuff] out of the way oh
Man, not a scratch on it [look] at this even protected on the front
And I can unveil the defender
Right on [okay] looking at the front. It's already got the decals on [it] of course
This is a decal here. It looks raised to me when I first thought until I could see the shine of [the] sticker
But there is the landrover symbol all the lights are in it looks like there's a piece of [paper] behind there
Focus there we go
It looks like there's a piece of paper behind there or a decal [itself] just to kind of show [that] that's where lights are can
you put a light kit in
Hard to see in there
It doesn't look like it or maybe [it'll] have some different parts or something where you can put it on to the back
Look the wheel wells okay?
this is kind of what I was interested in as well a
The Shock hangers are there so they just must kind of fit in very snugly?
but the wheel wells actually carry right into the
The trays right these under trays right here, so I bet you this there's going to be a huge mud protector
Boom boom boom what do I have on the back? [oh]?
This is different
Went to place it on there, but there's this bracket in there
Interesting okay, so how do I place it on there?
Like this yet must slide it forward a little bit tada that I line it up I
love Discovery new Orsi's Da-Dun
nice
Look at that. Okay. Let's look at the wheel wells
So look at the protection that's in there hard to see in the dark
But right in there, you can see the wheel well [is] coming together with that plate only [a] very small opening?
so I have great hope that
this will help keep out a lot of the mud until [I] actually get up here and the mud just seeps in but if I'm
rolling through a puddle nice and quick
I
Imagine it's going to hit the wheel well and most of it will come out
Who knows maybe we can even get a shroud for this eventually over the electronics if necessary?
Wow
Okay, I'm happy
Overall I think it's pretty cool. Look how big the tray is here is my iPhone 7 plus
It fits that plus a whole bunch. You can see the actual truck itself is quite large
Quite wide it appears to be quite beefy and the shock of [read] that they chose to have the accessories on
They're really kind of make it pop [on] [ice] including the back badge as well being yellow and blue
Alright, so there we go. So [now] I've got a ton of things. I want to learn all about this
I'm going to slap a battery in
And you guys probably want to see the radio
But we've all seen radios before have we not just your standard tQI right the 2.4 gigahertz
got your switch up top got your switch in the middle very much like the traxxas summit for the
[two-stage] transmission and the remote locking diffs, so let's go ahead and have a look here
so waterproof box inner fenders cruise control set your speed using the transmitter then [Fine-tune] it with the
Multifunction knob because everybody always wonders. What's this knob for right this actually does things into your model for example?
apparently in this one keep your pace right, so if you're all traveling in a group
And you all have your pace set. [it's] the same thing you're all going at the same speed
Heavy-Duty form steel ladder frame with molded cross members yep how to look at that
as well as
I really wish they would have gone into the portal axles more here for us to see
Portal axles, raise the axle link Mount Center Driveshaft steering Drag link and the tie Rod up and out of harm's way
centered ground clearance is increased while critical driveshaft and suspension link link Angles are reduced aha, so
I already know [that] as far as I understand portal axles actually work on a separate gearing system
Inside the axle itself [yeah], and this is what I'm talking about. Let's get in here
See if I can get a good shot of it here we go okay, so for those that don't know about portal axles
And I've got to wing it here
So if I get it wrong guys I apologize, but you know I'll do the best
I can not being a mechanic myself the wheel nut would be
Generally in the same place so right outside the axle
but power is actually being transferred from the differential out to the
Axle itself here, and then it's going to fit into another set of gears
Which is on top of another set of gears right here that are rolling one on top of each other that?
Giving you [a] bump of a boom boom [oh] much higher
clearance and a much higher stance now
I hope I got that right if you guys wanted to go into more great. Detail [google] has like tons of information out there
But from what I understand that is exactly what we'd be looking at in that axle so my friends
Thank you so much for tuning in [I] got a ton of things
I want to do with this of course it's going to go on my backyard rock course
I want to put it on my backyard trail course
and also head out into the woods and see what this looks like in a true RC adventure style film so
Look forward to seeing more of this. What do you guys think of this truck is it a well thought out truck
You know are you guys tracks as fans yourself. Are you happy to see a new style of truck come out from traxxas?
you know all those kind of things is this something that you're looking at getting into and you're looking for a
Unusual or cool crawler that seems to work. I haven't tested it yet, but from everything I see on here
It looks pretty good, so I'll leave a link in the video description Box down below
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Let's get this new truck seen by other folks and until next time my friends get outside have some fun with the RC
Hobby, it's unlimited in the things you can do and we will see you in the next episode of rcAdventures. Bye for now