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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 3 years 4 weeks ago #64827

Found out Tamico have these in stock.
Also asked on a couple of norwegian selling sites and one sent me PM that he wouls check his shed tomorrow.

So if all turns out good, I will get a set in near future 
 
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 3 years 3 weeks ago #64932

Got two messages from the norwegian dudes, one cuold not find the wheels and another just had the satin chrome ones like on the CC01 Pajero.
Seens it will be Tamico order then..


Today I did the right side of the suspension.

Here I'm about to fit the aluminium tube to the lower suspension mount.
Bolt and nut works great for this task. I started with a long link and then used a shorter bolt at the end.
Same can be used on real cars too, to remove and install bushes.


Did the same on the upright.


Bolted together. Had to sand the suspension arms as it was a bit tight.
Also fitted a section of tube on the chassis side of the of the upper link mount to be able to use a normal M3 bolt.
Later the upper arm will be replaced by a adjustable unit for the M05 series.


Both sides done regarding fixing the slope.


But there is some iffy going on. The wheel on the motor side has toe-in, but the the other side pull the wheel straight.
Seems like the arms are miss angled some.
For that reason I will fit M05 V2 one piece arms later on to elimate this problem.


Now to the front.
The front has slope as well, mostly from the upper link.




First I made a new piece of 5x3mm brass tube into the chassis side of the upper link mount


And then in the C-hub


Most of the slope has gone now, but will fit new bearings later and do a flange bearing mod to the c-hub for the upright. That's elimate the slope around the king pin bolts.
I also need to change one of the upprights as the one of the threads are gone.
Some of the king pins are threaded in crooked. Got loads of uprights in my parts bin so no worry there.

 
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 3 years 2 weeks ago #64960

I sent a mail to Tamico a few days ago regarding the Escort Bod Kit.
The said the expect to have those in stock in late April if anyone is on the hunt for some of those.

I have ordered some other stuff (not rc related) lately so the order from Tamico have to pushed a bit nearer towards the summer I think..

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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 3 years 2 weeks ago #65033

More progress.

Now the whole suspension is more or less slope free except the steering.
There was plenty of slope in the C-hubs and to make it worse one of the M4 screw holes in the upright was also stripped.

I wanted to make a ball bearing conversion on the C-hubs, but I was thinking, "hang on, did I not do a conversion on one of my other TL01 chassis's?"
And I indeed had.
Turns out on that project I had swapped out for TA04 C-hub and upright, so I found the converted C-hub in my TL01 parts bin.

If I'm not mistaken the bearings are 4x7x2.5 metal flanged ones, so all you need is some M4 bolts to fit the upright.


One more mod is needed on the upright. The collar lip needs to be filed/sanded down on both sides, like here. The bearing flange replaced the space of the lip.
Orginal one to the left.


I used M4 countersunk bolts so they would only touch the inner collar of the bearing.


Completed. 
Now they are totally slope free and they move freely and will stay like this.


Now I swapped to orginal Tamiya uprights, the bearing now sits tightly in them and have now less slope than when they were mounted in the copy uprights.

Also did a short test of the dampers

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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 2 years 3 weeks ago #70670

Wow, nearly a year since last update??

Time to do some work then.
As you saw I got a few things in the mail yesterday.
How it was last time


I while ago I bought M05RA upright parts intended for this project.


Before the M05RA mod


The RA c-hubs has double of holes to fit them on the chassis, mainly to lift the chassis when using the top holes up and down.
In other models this part is casted in red, but I wanted black, so M05 spec was the choise to go with


You can clearly see which is which.
The steering knuckle (upright) that comes with the RA kit has high steer steering arm, which would either crash with the suspension arm or the propeller shaft cover.
I was lucky that in my spare parts bin I had a pair of alloy ones which I belive came with a set of TLT axles I got years ago. If that is the case they should also fit TA04.
Mounting them was another problem as the plastic uprights had M4 threads, while the alloy one has M3.
I'm totally out of king pins in both variants, so I did what I have done before and installed some 630 flange bearings after drilling the holes to 6mm.
For now I placed the bearings on the outside, but later I will file down the threaded part so the bearings can live on the inside and support the knuckle.
These alloy uprights also ebded as the best for this setup as the steering arm part is angled a bit which ment now the steering links clear the propeller shaft cover.


Same goes for the rear. Before mod.


Old upright to the left and new to the right.
Lower hole is then drilled to 3.2mm to fit the Traxxas hinge pins I'm using.


RA upright fitted to left side compared to "stock"


Needed rubber for my new wheels and since I only got one set, I had to rob them from my Kyosho Pug 205.
Will order more later as I see L&L modela now sells their own version of the MX60 tires.


On this project I will use the HPI MX60 setup which is the third from left in this picture.
From left we have M-chassis D55, M-chassis D-60. HPI MX60 and regular touring wheel size 1.9" with rally tire.
These are 55, 58.5, 60 and 70mm tall.
I like the MX60 since the wheel is a bit taller (1.7") than the M-chassis ones which I think look too small on the Escort MkII.


Even with the 60mm tires, the ground clearance is about the same as with touring wheels fitted, maybe a tad higher.




I had to test fit the Escort body.
Was a perfect fit both wheelbase and width. After all I shortned this chassis to fit this body which is 239wb.
The body is a snug fit over the wheels which will help me when I'm going to make my own stealth body mounts as one of the chassis body mounts are broken right off.





I have fitted -3 offset wheels now that I hope will work when driving.
Also have one set of 0 offset wheels in case I need to make a bit more room for steering.
Also like to keep the hight as in the mock up pictures.

Paint will be similar to the wheels.

 
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 2 years 3 weeks ago #70671

nice, can wait to see it finished.
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 2 years 3 weeks ago #70679

Just ordered some magnets for my stealt body mount system.
Should be here in a couple of days.

Ordered 4x 10x6x4 rings. Idea behind these are to slip them over body post and the magnet will hold onto the body clips.
Ordered 4x 6x6 round magnets with M3 threads. Idea with these if the system above do not work, these can slip into the ring and will be held on the body with a short M3 bolt.
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 2 years 3 weeks ago #70701

The magnets arrived yesterday.
Those to the left are 6x6mm with 3mm threads half way through.
Right ones are 10x6 rings which are 4mm tall.


First I was thinking of using them like this, gluing the ring to the body...


But then if I do like this and glue the ring to the body and use regular body post, the ring can then be locked to the body clip.
Think this is the way to go on my CC01 Bronco body


On my Escort I will go on a different rout as I don't want wobbly body post's.
As you may see, there is a flat piece front and rear fitted to the chassis.
On base of that flat piece I will bolt on a small bit of thin steel strip and then make some spacer plates out of styrene with 6mm holes in them to act as a guide down to the steel bit.
The 6x6 magnet will then bolted to the body.
For now I use set screws and bolts to connect the body to the mounts.






Some angle aluminium fitted to the shock tower by tthe damper bolts.


Same story for the rear mount. Had to angle the rear bit to meet the boot lid.
Stock on the Escort the body mounts comes up onto the rear area of the rood. I did not want that.



Now I can make the guide plates and fine adjust the body hight after the body is trimmed.
Each of those magnets holds 0.7kg, which is 2.8kg in total. Should be enough for a light body.

Front mount might be redone as I miss calculated the measurements somehow and it ended about 1cm too short for what I had in mind.
But it will do for now.
Also need to remember to buy really short M3 screws as my 3x6mm ones are too long for the magnets if I fit it without washers or o-rings which I might do.


I could have glued the smal mgnets to the body, but then I would have to wait till the body is painted which might take a while.
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 2 years 3 weeks ago #70702

Velcro is one of my best friend for body and chassis weddings.
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Richard's Escort MkII build - TL01 ish based. 2 years 3 weeks ago #70703

try 3m dual lock!

Velcro is one of my best friend for body and chassis weddings.
 

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