Build Thread A Wicked Drift Build - MST RMX 2.0

[Xraycer]

Are you still not finished with this thing?

 

[WickedFog]

Time for a transmission build. This is an interesting one. CA glue? Really?

Ok. If you say so.

These rings create a spool. You can see these are keyed with a hex.

Time for the fun stuff.

Input shaft and this wierd transfer gear assembly.

Rather than an idler gear, this assembly transfers the power from the input shaft to the spool.

I am almost certain I took a pic of the inside of the trans assembly, but I guess I didn't. So look at the outside and like it!

Assembled and mouted to the upper rails.

Time to attach it to the chassis.

 

[WickedFog]

Are you still no finished with this thing?

It's done. Been done. I just been too lazy to upload everything

See?

 

[Littlemotor]

Man-this thing looks a LOT nicer than you give it credit.. Coming together super nice man!! Take it easy on yourself over there-you got nothing to prove!!

 

[Xraycer]

It's done. Been done. I just been too lazy to upload everything

See?
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Can't put my finger on it, but it just seems like something is missing

 

[CertifiedMike]

Man-this thing looks a LOT nicer than you give it credit.. Coming together super nice man!! Take it easy on yourself over there-you got nothing to prove!!

I was about to mention how fast all these projects are flying together now! Lots of Fog going on over here lately!!!

Some of this build seems a bit rough to me... It looks like you're rocking right thru it all tho!

 

[WickedFog]

Anyway, pardon the rude interuption by that @Xraycer guy. Pfft

Time for shock towers.

You gotta see this dumb chit. In all my years, I have never seen a more piss-poor assembly diagram. I am sure there is worse, but I've never seen one. Not only are the lines showing the path the parts follow to mount the parts to the tower overlapping each other in such a way it makes it impossible to figure out where the parts go, but this shows the parts in a completely different location than they are in the second pic. Pay attention to the M3x20 screws, and how it shows it going through the little part with the pin on it. Nope. That's not where those go. Those are the screws that mount the tower to the bulkhead.

This is where the items go according to the first of the two pics above. I may move the upper arms out to the outside locations as in the second pic above to give the csr less negative camber.

Assembly complete.

 

[WickedFog]

Can't put my finger on it, but it just seems like something is missing

Read the OP silly. I am just building the chassis to kill time. Electronics will be ordered like, maybe a year from now

 

[Xraycer]

Read the OP silly. I am just building the chassis to kill time. Electronics will be ordered like, maybe a year from now

So,................you're not done?

 

[WickedFog]

Man-this thing looks a LOT nicer than you give it credit.. Coming together super nice man!! Take it easy on yourself over there-you got nothing to prove!!

My screws showed up. I gotta get this off the bench

Time to bring it all together (uppers and lowers)

Front assembly components.

Nothing worth talking about. Pretty straightforward.

Just put the balls in the holes.

Rear components.

Boom. You can tell I'm rushing huh?

Boom.

 

[WickedFog]

So,................you're not done?

Yup. I'm done doing what I done did said I's gonna do when I started this thread

 

[Littlemotor]

Why for you be rushing den bro?

 

[WickedFog]

Drag chassis showed up. SQUIRREL!

 

[Littlemotor]

Drag chassis showed up. SQUIRREL!
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Daaaaaaaas not why…..

 

[WickedFog]

Daaaaaaaas not why…..

Yeah, you know why. Damn my fat feet. I'm posting this and turning wrenches.

Ok. Back to this one. Shocking!

Didn't lose a single e-clip. Yay.

O-rings installed in adjusters with a little green slime. Make sure to rotate these threads backwards until you feel the first threads click. Then thread on. These are very delicate, plastic threads on the shock body.

Huh. Mineral oil. I haven't seen that since the 80's. Ok. I said I was assembling this per the manual.

Not full enough.

Full enough.

No idea what this value should be, but I made them all the same.

Front pre-load

Rear.

Complete.

Installed.

 

[WickedFog]

Battery holders in place.

I'll post the bumper and body post stuff later. This has to be put back on hold

 

[Littlemotor]

 

[Doom!]

I wish everything was white, then it would be cool.

 

[WickedFog]

Ok. My OCD wouldn't let me not post the last of this. Bumpers and body mounts...

Done for now. That better @Xraycer?

 

[9x19]

Are you done yet?