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Step 17 is quick, mounting of the rear damper stay.

Although quick, quite fiddly with the three screws in tight spaces.

Step 18, front a-arms

The new chassis gets new plastic again, and as with all plastic on the best chassis, only vintage parts are used. (so far both models have only vintage parts)

Parts


New plastic parts assembled:



Step 19, mounting the front uprights.
One of the front uprights turned out to be an early version from the Avante, so I had to change it to the same as the rest. Nothing else to do than to pull one from my runner Avante 2001, clean it and mount it to the second chassis.

The to types of uprights:


All the parts:


All four assembled and ready for installation:

Step 20: mounting the front a-arms:

Showing just the left hand side:


Both chassis' and both sides done


Close-up of the best chassis:

And finally for tonight, step 20 and 21, building and mounting the front uprights.

The UJ's make this build special. It just looks so right compared to most models with dog-bone type.

All the parts


Parts for the best chassis


Best chassis uprights done


Best chassis assembled


Second-best chassis front suspension done

stingray-63 wrote:

How much can I pay for a nice used (with or without body) new chassis egress???

Good question! I don't know and I would also like to know because the "second-best" Egress from this build will be sold when it's done.
-Lars

I want to make an offer this summer to a friend for a big lot of rc vintage including an egress a ff01 mint, tamtechs, 1 stadium blitzer, a nib lumina kyosho, several motors radios gears and wheeles. But no idea of a good price for us...

A little bit more done today, but I was stopped because of missing parts.

Step 23, assembling the front stabilizer and the bumper.
Not a lot to it, but fiddly, even more so because the Titan screws are not magnetic...

All the part:


Then step 24 assembling the bumper and front damper mount to the chassis.


And presto!

And now, building front and rear dampers, part 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31

All parts:


Spot the photoshopping!


Assembled!


Easy, eh...

I built the dampers dry this time, only adding a bit of oil to the piston rods.

Part 28, mounting rear dampers to chassis.

I can't recall any chassis with this many parts just to mount a damper. It looks like Tamiya took whatever parts they could find and made them fit.



The wing support is also the securing nut for the upper damper bolts.
Not very convenient when changing dampers?

Best chassis:


Second best chassis:

Part 32 front damper mounting

Due to a missing damper oil seal, I will only mount the dampers for chassis no. 1. The other two will wait until I receive the kind gift from Waterbok.

But, here are the dampers and mounting hardware



A closer look at the kit for chassis no.1


And the dampers mounted on chassis no 1