"Never Give Up!"

[Dandare]

Thanks for the advice re. the diff.

Few bits done tonight.

I decided to buy the alloy Astute gearbox mounting posts as I keep reading the plastic ones snap all too easily,



I made a carbon support brace for the rear tower too,





Then.... DISASTER !!



I'm baffled, I've been very careful in handling the chassis, no screws over-tightened, no force put on it. I was literally in the process of mounting the rear tower when I noticed the gearbox was loose & found the chassis cracked. Whilst removing the gearbox & hingepin screws bits of plastic were just falling off, like it just decided to disintegrate I'm a bit gutted as I'd also ground off the cracked front bulkhead posts & replaced them with steel threaded posts.


I have one spare chassis (apart from the vgc one on the complete car I bought, which I don't particularly want to use) but this has seen a good amount of action.

I'd like to source another good chassis (if anyone has one let me know...)

I'll re-build it again with my only spare chassis whilst being SUPER careful, I'll also take the motor off until I've fully secured the gearbox to the chassis with the shock tower in place to prevent excess weight breaking the chassis. I will then move on to the front end, I guess it's all part of vintage tinkering