Tamiya TRF511 restore.

[ralphee]

Beginning this here as its turned out to be a restore. Picked up this "mint" TRF511 chassis last week from N7ELA, on giving her a quick shakedown, i thought well why not run riot and throw a bit more money at it.

On being informed the complete drivetrain was NEW, shaking it all down left a few nasty surprises, but nothing I've not seen before, much like my YZ10 project.
There are the new driveshafts removed from the roller.....ive now ordered, really, really new ones. These were reputed to be from a car recently fully rebuilt.


Heres one of the brand new diffs, again, really new ones ordered, along with outdrives, that aren't slotted from dogbone wear.

Front bearings....again, these are brand new, hmm i see a pattern forming, i mean, when i see a bearing like this, i replace it on even a simple rebuild, so, luckily, i have most of the bearings for this car in stock at home.

Here we have the "custom" gold TRF alloy......custom, love that word, but, to drive away the legacy of this car, these very faded parts from the same "mint" chassis, are being sent away to be stripped, polished, de burred and anodised back to TRF blue. Anybody's wallet pocket aching yet?


Thats all for now folks, parts are starting to arrive, so soon as i have the alloy back, and the new chassis plate (that too looks like it was used as a sanding block) i can really start to move.
Then i can do what i intended, just mount my electrics in this minter and run it.

bests........lee