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Did Factory Team T3's come with Lundsford turnbuckles or AE's blue titanium turnbuckles?

My team trucks came with AE's blue turnbuckles. I'm not sure if they are titanium or not.

Blue turnbuckles it was, I just had a look at my FT B3 box and it says blue.

Another question, are Thunder Tiger chassis parts identical or are they different? I want some new parts for one of my T3's but don't want to cheapen it. If they are different I'll track down genuine AE parts.

Not identical, what are you looking for exactly?

Seeing if the chassis plates and some various plastics are the same. I'd like a new chassis too.

I've heard on this forum that the plastic parts TT uses are of a different substance. I've bought a couple of rear TT arms for my T3 (Amain,$2,99 ) and they work just fine (and cheap too!). I've checked, but they are on backorder at the moment.

Metal parts should be the same I would think..... I've got some TT outdrives (Amain,$10,99 each) and they also work just fine.

front kick up is exactly the same, at the rear the TT is completely different (plastic crap btw!)

The front and rear plate looked identical so I bought them. The plates were tapped with imperial threads instead of metric so I reckon there the same. All I need now is a new T3 chassis and she'll be like new.

In saying that replacing everything with new takes away a bit of character and kind of makes it "just another truck".

The TT chassis works, just slightly different mold and plastic composition. It will work, just won't hold up as well as the originals do.

After looking a bit more you can tell the AE plastics have more glass fibers in it.

If you're anxious to run, toss on a TT chassis for now and in the meantime keep an eye out for an original. Hopefully it will last until you find one, unfortunately in my case it did not. I hit a tree and those little nubs in the front top plate area sheared right off... boo

The chassis on mine is fine, just a bit scratched although not badly. I just wanted to freshen it up a bit before sticking it on the shelf for the rest of its life. I put the new rear plate on but kind of like the semi worn blue FT chassis plates, it tells more of a story.

Well, I can finally put this pair to bed as I finally finished them off. There wasn't much to do really other then buy tires and bodies. I wish I had an FT T3 box and paperwork though.

Crappy pics but ...........

Looks good! Snag some blue RPM rear arm mounts and gear covers if you can, all the blue RPM stuff looks nice