So, I had a few hours today to start stripping & inspecting the chassis I'll use for racing. Overall it wasn't too bad for 27 years old. There are a few things though, firstly this:
This had already been repaired in the past via long grub screws being screwed into the posted (both of them) but this one had obviously snapped in half. I'll look into this later.
The other thing is the gearbox, the rear screw mount was broken:
And, the two plastic mounting posts had previously been glued into the gearbox but didn't looked cracked. This was a problem as I only had one other so I needed one of these so I managed to dremel one out:
There are some Super Astute alloy ones on eBay, does anyone know if they'll fit ?
Anyway, luckily I have two other gearboxes intact so I cleaned one up, cleaned the gears etc fitted rubber sealed bearings & now I'm here:
I still need to re-build the diff using the Tamiya Hop Up diff kit I bought but at least I'm then able to mount the gearbox to the chassis. Luckily the rear shock tower, hingepin blocks, arms are all good.
Onwards & upwards...
