My first attempt to create a no-truck trial truck without Universal join, only gears. Features drive, steering, suspensions and fake engine. Including building instructions.

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The Lada is equipped with full pendular suspensions with shock absorbers. The axles are built with gears, without U-join, because I have slitted my U-join 3L after I created a Truck with it. So I decided, to save my parts, that I build the truck trial only with gears.

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A XL motor, placed on the rear drives the four wheels. The steering is directly operated in the dashboard by a M motor. The wheel steering is also driven by the M motor. The fake engine L4 is placed on the front, under the bonnet and is connected to the wheels. It has also a 2-speed gearbox. A least, the doors and the bonnet can be opened. The clearing abilities are good but the moc is quite heavy, so it has friction on the axle steering, spite of a good clearance and departure angle.

The building instructions are available. You can watch them by browsing my website or

Download the Zip Archive of the Lada Niva’s instructions, 5 mo, ZIP.

Designed in 2010

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