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Awesome JR, just Awesome

I forgot to take pics of the underside - new rear bumper brace on the KBF came out quite well.

I'm short of two bumper brackets (one missing on both the brown eBay shell & my "new" blackfoot) but found a pair of alternative in my spares box - I'm guessing from a Super Clod re-re?

Blimey, 5 weeks since I last thought about doing anything on this

Not much of an update, but I've stripped the KBF chassis down to clean & tidy up the mods I did in the past ... Pajero wheelie bar fitment just needs a few edges tidying, but the upside down & centralised steering servo needs the brackets re-making properly in aluminium.

Gearbox on the other hand doesn't need any work internally

Spent some time making things clean & shiny ... replacement aluminium brackets for the upside down servo mod have gone from being as rough as a badgers behind to positively blingy; windows (on the right) were polished with the Novus 3-part set; the 5 missing brass bits were made by machining down ones with heavier bases; everything else has been through the ultrasonic tank.

Still need to sort the roofbar lights & make a sunstrip, but I'm just about ready to put this one back together again

Nice, nice those alloy parts you've made look sweet

After a false start (putting alloy spacers in the gearbox instead of the brass ones ) & lots of long breaks I got the chassis back together ... I couldn't remember if I'd had this car completely apart at any point before - I guess not as there were sprue burrs everywhere, and a hole missing on the chassis...

Third pic shows improvement of upside down/central servo - no bump steer at full compression

Awesome JR You must be happy with the body, from the white bench smacker to a black stomper

Started dismantling the Bush Devil chassis:





Bumper needs replacing (I might just use a Lunchbox one instead), definitely needs some sort of underguard...





Note routing of servo wires I don't think they've been there for long...





Wheels needs a skim & some tyres...





Motor needs resoldering...





Antenna holder needs replacing...





Resistor wiring needs some attention, resistor itself needs replacing:







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Fasteners are not the best - loose nuts, stripped nuts, wrong bits used, and lots of chewed threads ... I get the feeling this is a bitsa car - someone had two, made a good one out of the bits - and this is the reject parts