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Gearbox is a mixed bag - nasty outdrives, surprisingly clean gear ... and absolutely vile diff. insides

I have a complete rebuilt bush devil myself but i added oil shocks and ballraced it looks very tidy and an original set of new decals and a new set of G parts to complete it it just needs tyres and a TBG bodyshell and you would have a nice shelfer if anyone fancies a project drop me a PM

KBF is pretty much finished, although ideally I'd fiddle with the springs - despite having the same springs both ends, the front end is far too hard & the rear too soft...

Really not sure about the sun strips, they didn't look that good so tried so lettering in the hope that would improve it I think they might have to come off entirely, or maybe the letters just need to be smaller.

Just perfect Jonny, Same the sun strips (for me)

They both look great id vote to keep the sunstrips they look good

My KBF had a horrendous crash - it rolled off a 2metre high shelf & landed on my Brat

Bad! But there are not big matters.

Sorry to see that JR, the bracket you made for the KBF certainly saved it but caused extensive to your Brat

More fiddling with the Bush Devil... I'm really not sure quite what I'm going to do with it, I's like a hotter motor & ESC, but until I can find some proper oils shocks for it on the cheap it's getting a silvercan & MSC fitted ...



I don't know how dry/friction shocks could get so manky...





This photo just doesn't show how disgusting the water got...






Brass bits before ...





... and after:





A closeup of my Johnson






New resistor & spade connectors:





Chewed up ball joints ... I'm sure this wouldn't happen half as much if Tamiya didn't recommend using needle nose pliers in the manual



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I haven't really done any restoration here, but with a thorough clean, lightly used tyres, Monster Beetle underguard, Lunchkin bumper & a few new fasteners, it looks a lot tidier

I still need to sort the body mounts out - in these pics it's just balanced on. I think it needs to be lower on the back rather than a lift on the front end ... a bit of part juggling & fiddling to be done yet ...