Yet another Gorilla is born

[marcus]

I know it's been done before but this is my first Gorilla Build so perhaps you guys can point out any failings in my plan.

It's not however the first T/E-Maxx I've built so it's familiar territory and I still have a bunch of unused stuff hanging around from those earlier builds

I originally started with the of idea using an old "Ebay Special" E-Maxx I'd picked up as a base but in the event this project has gotten way out of hand and ended up being assembled from 95% new parts. I think the only parts that were from a donor truck are some gearbox parts, pillow balls and a couple of hinge pins [gulp]

Rather than build up a full Alloy Shelf Queen (a sickness of mine) I planned to make this project useable from the outset. Alloy has been used exclusively where needed only, diff casings, bulkheads, steering linkages and chassis. The suspension parts remain plastic albeit RPM

This way the truck remains light & nimble but hopefully strong and resistant to the bending & breakages all-alloy vehicles invariably suffer.

So, to battle.............

4-spider HB diffs with Nova buckets, SuperMaxx cups and RCM output shafts should take anything I will throw at them


FLM Hybrids


RPM towers, mounts, arms, knuckles, bumpers, braces & skids


Supermaxx shocks


Seems little point in having two motor mounts if I'm using One motor so
Using the old gear casing as a guide, my trusty hacksaw and Dremel soon had the spare metal in the trash can


Mocked together with dummy gearbox in place to enable me to make centre shaft measurements