Rebuilding my Truck

[George16]

Originally Posted by Finnster

Very nice truck. Something like that would kill me to run it, otoh, spending all that time and money on it making it so awesome will kill me not to run it. O cruel fate...

Thanks.

I used to race/bash it like a madman. However, it now came to a point where I drive the brushless truggy and buggies more often than this truck so I decided to clean and polish it up and rebuilt it for display.

Here's what it used to look like with the exception of the tranny and lowere front/rear arms:





Disassembled for cleaning. It almost took me 2 years to clean/polish and put it together.

[JERRY2KONE]

Thats pretty funny. The average Joe looking at those pics would more than likely tell you to just throw that pile of jumk in the trash and start over. It's funny because not everyone has the talent or that skill of looking at a pile of stuff like that and seeing what it could be with a little elbow grease. That is a very good representation of how different people see the same things. They're always nice once all of the work is completed. That will make a fine ShelfQueen Lito. Nice work as usual Lito.

Hey Lito I just received another box from HPI with two more center diffs inside. They are not hardened gears, but they do come with a 50T steel spur gear attached. For $9 why not.

I just put together another roller setup with the parts I had laying around. Harold had sent me a gift before Exmas, and it was an RCsolutions ExtMaxx kit. He only wanted the roll cage and suspension parts, so he gave me the rest of it. The chassis is a half inch longer than the RCM/Fastlane chassis made out of 1/4 aluminum plate, and made for a nitro TMaxx, but with the help of the new RCM center diff mount I got everything together and working well. Once I have the money to acquire some of those RX8 combo kits I will be in business. But that will have to wait, because I am heading out to Cali tomorrow on Emergency leave. My wife's father passed away yesterday. 97 years old.