Thanks!

Sorry guys for the lack of updates...I have been very busy between college and work. I'm not used to having to spend so much time studying...and that darn calculus is kicking my butt...

anyway.. over the last couple of days I have been slowly working on this...

First I decided to wrap the Tvp's and the upper chassis plates with black vinyl..as I'm going for the blacked out look. Once I got that done I started putting everything back together. The center differential didn't spin freely so I spent a couple of hours sorting that out and now it spins like butter. I also filled the front diff with 50k diff oil and the rear with 30k.

I have been looking at the huge brick of a motor and I have been worrying about the possibility of the truck landing off a huge jump and the motor sliding down on the motor mount and on to the spur. So I made a bracket that slides up and down with the motor and that supports the rear of the motor.

The 12mm aluminum hexs I ordered from Tekno didn't end up the way I wanted because they fit the axles but the pins where way too small. So I was browsing the hobby shop and I found some Losi ten-t wheels. I came to find out they are PERFECT for this build..they are 2.8...fit on 6mm rims and have 13mm hexs. I picked up the hexs to go with them and they have the same size of pin as the revo axles use!

As you can probably tell I have been pretty busy..unfortunately.. I am un-able to post pictures of the black covered aluminum parts, the hexs, and the motor support...but since you guys have waited so long I decided to snap a few pictures of how it stands...
I'm very close to finishing..just a few small things here and there.

I don't like the chrome ten-t wheels so I will be stripping the chrome and dying them black... I will also put the red springs into the dye bath as well for the blacked out look...