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fix this complex on the nose plate, attached the bumper & front arms

the bumper cover up all the ugly holes

cut out part of the front suspension mounts

anchore the front gear box & suspension mounts to the front tower.....which is the most important component in this project....

Bottom Feeder wrote:Why the longer cap screws and big washers when you could recess both the cap heads and smaller locknuts in the transmission case? It would look a lot cleaner and more streamlined. Just my opinion...

those longer cap head screws & big washers are for test fit only

Looks like this might have either dynotech or Jake arms in the front? Looking forward to it. The front end would be too wide if I use the truck nose plate plus buggy wide track arms......that's why the nose plate was cut even narrower than the truck one....... :) Likely the front end would be using...

nose plate cut narrow ..... with new set of holes drilled.......

adding a pulley......I chose the Japanese brand "Square".........while the 3 Racing pulleys do the same thing.....

Throw in all components into the gearbox.....silky smooth !!.......

Replace the idler gear by a Robinson pinion......with appropriate shimming in between......

Front gearbox:

To start with....I am using the rere stealth gearbox.....drill a hole on each side in the idler gear slot......make sure to align the two new bearing holes ....

There are different RC10 4WD conversions in the past.....but the prices are terribly high which I am not able to afford any one of them now......so I decided to build my own one instead...... :) Choosing the front gearbox is troublesome.......with the great help of Jeff (Gomachv) .....I finally deci...

nice !!

seems that the top shaft is causing the trouble.....both the top shaft gear & the flat surfaces of slipper contact....

I heard from my friends who bought the rere Worlds car (including me).....all of them got problems in the gear box - the inner slipper plate hits on the motor plate - the 3 internal gears not smooth.....something like the gears are elliptical so that at some point the binding is too tight anyone who...

wow..... nice

aip47-2008 wrote:

stickboy007 wrote:My understanding is the deep offset wheels were only for the 870C. Occasionally they show up on eBay.

The deep off-set rears were also intended for, or also used on the RC10.

yes.....for the RC10AX (Japanese version)

also for those who like to do a Masami's replica....including me.....