This morning, I adjusted shocks for this Zerda. Original shocks were 80 and and 90mm, but I find the rear should be shorten by 5mm. I started with some 85mm shocks. Rear are unchanged while front course is shorten by 5mm by insertion of a printed bearing on the piston shaft.
The shocks are larger than the original ones and it may require some adjustment on top end fixation... We'll see this later., but I do think it will be the same as on the 44B chassis.
The dog bones are 61mm generic one found on internet. I have 8 sitting there and 5 of them are not exactly perfect. There is one end which do have an issue on one of the side, and it requires this side to be on the wheel side, as on the diff cup side, it won't work properly. I marked them to ease the use, but they will do the job.
I printed my front shock tower, installed it on the chassis with the servo and a Tamiya servo saver (with a original Hirobo servo saver, you can not use pivot ball here). The steering will be symmetric. If I trust what I experienced with the Hilux chassis, that would be enough without adding too much complexity.
Next come the arms. Everything is ready to be positionned.
Some fine tuning might be still required for the steering rods, but beside this we have a full front end. Note the top deck in place. I used the 2mm but the 3mm would work as well (i tested). My chassis is rigid enough with the 2mm top deck thanks to the 3mm under chassis rigidifier. I added 2 toric joints in the front diff cups to avoid the dogbones to snap out at the wheel end...
The rear end was even easier... I may replace the shock tower by one a bit stronger, though.
I positionned the roll cage already to check the fitting. Some adjustment will be required for the 3 transversal bars linking the two side as they are far too easy to snap out...
At the end it will work. I still need to put a motor inside this beast, manage the few adjustments of the roll cage, but it is already a very good progress...
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