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The donor car looks really rough.

I've not to own one yet, the closest thing was the Hi-lift series I broke for parts.

stingray-63 wrote:

Another dude resto Manu. You'll use the blue body ?

Hi Flo, Yes i will use the blue body for my restore and the non painted cracked one will go

Been working a bit on this Hi-Lux this WE

Assembled the rear axle





Assembling the frame



The next step after that is installing both axles with the leaf springs on the frame. By doing this, i noticed that some U-Holders were longer than the original ones. I remembered that the previous owner had modified the height of the suspension by inserting some aluminum made spacers as the Bruiser has. I presume that those U-Holders are from the Bruiser.

I took the original ones from the donor car and installed everything on the chassis.



Next step : Taking the gearbox apart, clean it and replace all the bearings with ball bearings

Assembly can continue







Installing a new Maingear

Gearbox assembled





And installed on the chassis together with the Speed controller



Took the wheels off and dissasembled the rims for a tire replacement

Rims disassembled



Cleaned an polished the rims with original tires on



With tire lettering



Thanks for looking
Manotas

I love the ESC

Yes I agree, the ESC looks great on there, cleaned up nicely . Although I might argue it is not really an ESC per say, I saw inside one years ago and it is mostly mechanical in there, there were micro switches and a cam and some transistors??. Really quite amazing and so typical for Tamiya to go all out with some complicated engineering for the problem. I assume that it was more efficient than just some external resistors some a multi step switch and it sure looks cool