A Tekno SCT410.3

[J’sCrawler]

I was phening for the 2.0 when I saw the announcement of its arrival. I couldn’t even go to sleep without thinking how I was going to work that baby into my budget. Well doing all the math over about 2 weeks between another eb48.3 or .4, a new sct410 2.0, or a .3, I decided to pick up a used .3 on eBay. Superb deal for a hardly used fine piece of equipment. other than the diffs were leaking everywhere, it was in great shape.
I began tearing it down to rebuild diffs. Easy peasey I’ve done this before, just added the aluminum cross pins for durability.

I am still figuring out what my powertrain will be, and I don’t have a servo for it. I do however have a readily available body for it, the trail boss! The flo tek it came with is all beat up so to the trash you go.

I have already priced out the necessary parts to put the new 13mm shocks with 16mm springs together like the 2.0 is equipped with. Oh boy, at about $170, that will be a slow gathering over time.
For now I will borrow a max10 3660 combo for power and pickup one of nsdrc’s servos.

 

[DavidB1126]

Short course trucks are so nice and fun. Too bad that in my area, sct is gone. Just boring buggies now, I have a buggy, its just that I feel like sct is more fun.
TB body looks good. I was thinking about that but went with the Jcon hi flow as its has more areo, and I can do cutouts.

 

[J’sCrawler]

Short course trucks are so nice and fun. Too bad that in my area, sct is gone. Just boring buggies now, I have a buggy, its just that I feel like sct is more fun.
TB body looks good. I was thinking about that but went with the Jcon hi flow as its has more areo, and I can do cutouts.

Will it be bomb pop colors? Did you find any rustoleum in those colors?

 

[DavidB1126]

Will it be bomb pop colors? Did you find any rustoleum in those colors?

I'm using left over paint I got. I have some orange left. all most the whole can of silver and burgundy. Blue is like almost out. Wanna try to have this body painted and ready to go by Wednesdays and can't go to the LHS to get new colors so, yea. What I'm thinking about is burgundy front and rear, and do some thicker orange and silver lines in the middle where the cab would be.

 

[J’sCrawler]

I'm using left over paint I got. I have some orange left. all most the whole can of silver and burgundy. Blue is like almost out. Wanna try to have this body painted and ready to go by Wednesdays and can't go to the LHS to get new colors so, yea. What I'm thinking about is burgundy front and rear, and do some thicker orange and silver lines in the middle where the cab would be.

Home Depot caries the rustoleum 2x, or ace hardware. You might find something you like.

Will it be bomb pop colors? Did you find any rustoleum in those colors?

I'm going to need to see that Silverado once you’re done painting it.
for my hi flow body I’m going to pick up an illuzion hi flow, and paint it with some extravagant scheme.
rustoleum 2x right here. And too heavy on the Tamiya window tint.

 

[RustyUs]

I need, and eventually will have, that body in Red Hot... daily driver:

 

[J’sCrawler]

It came with this body, oddly enough the same gunmetal grey with a hint of orange.

I need, and eventually will have, that body in Red Hot... daily driver:
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Do it!

 

[J’sCrawler]

I mounted some temporary electronics to get a test run in, but it’s raining today and I don’t want to get the truck wet or dirty. It’s too dang clean! Even made a wind guard!

ready to roll!

 

[Ramp addict]

SCT410.3 are fun trucks. I replaced the diff cross pins with steel and ran a 4s buggy power system in mine. They really are fun trucks.

 

[J’sCrawler]

I love painting

 

[J’sCrawler]

Another coat of green then a backer of white and it should be done! This paint is super thick so it takes a long time to dry once you start getting coats on it, and it takes multiple very light coats. It’s not like the polycarb paint that is really thin.

 

[Greywolf74]

Looking good so far!

 

[J’sCrawler]

I took these horrible shots so you wouldn’t see the Mac n cheese in the background, and as always my kitchen table (workbench) is too crowded! The fit is great just needs some stickers, some sanding around the trimmed edges, a few body post adjustments and were good to go. Oh and some shoe goo/ gorilla glue reinforcement.
I went strong on the green which I underestimated how much it was going to be. For now the back is clear, I will most likely tint it.

 

[9x19]

Nicely done!

 

[J’sCrawler]

We just need a tiger shark mouth like a war bird.

 

[J’sCrawler]

The last piece of the puzzle!

Once the snow is gone I can RIP.

 

[J’sCrawler]

This servo is fast!

 

[RustyUs]

This servo is fast!

Good to know . I wonder who makes them servos. I swear I've seen that case before...

 

[J’sCrawler]

Good to know . I wonder who makes them servos. I swear I've seen that case before...
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Not sure but both my Tekno now run both of their budget servos. The db48 has the rs500b direct power and it’s a great servo too.

 

[J’sCrawler]

Don’t trust your losi wheels on a Tekno! Blew that beesh apart not even full throttle