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Yep, an on road front shock tower should work fine.
Only thing is you'll have to use a "noseless" shell (so cut it off if it's not a TF)...

How many times do i have to repeat that my MR shell doesn't have a noes anymore?
Thanks for answers!

Length of the front dampers will go to around 65-70mm .



Guess he got a new front tower too...

I've heard that this was caused by a fat french guy

These Gauls are crazy...

By Toutatis!

Crap, those GPM motor mounts are really becoming a nuisance.
Plan was to take off the silvercan on the Humvee to replace it with the CR-Tuned.
But yet again one of the pins got stuck in the gearbox...
Apparently the thread lock sipped through the wrong way on one side.
Luckily I solved it this time with regluing (using J-B Weld steel epoxy) instead of mutilation.
From now on I will fuse the parts permanently this way before fitting any alloy motor mount again.
If I don't go for a one-piece specimen like waterbok's...

Anywho, moving on. Had a plan for a Mark II gearbox bracket for a while.
As a reminder, this is Mark I :



Using the wrong side of my brain, I placed the hole nicely in the middle last time :



But forgot to account for the bit on the side so that actuallly makes it 2mm off.
A good reason to use my drill standard (not owning a vice for it yet) :



Besides a more accurate fabrication, I'm adding a spacer and washer :



Spacer was ordered for this purpose - to perfectly match :



On the left - the reglued motor mount while drying...

Working on that rear gearbox, I noticed a small crack on another screw hole.
And I killed the thread on the one remaining one (there's only three screws on top).
The gearbox is from the original Manta Ray I started this thread with...
So I'm gonna use some more steel hardened epoxy here and there.

Maybe you've done too much torque on the screw to fix the gpm mount at the chassis? You can use a needle-nosed pliers with some cloth to loose it without damaging it.

Btw, want to see some horror-pictures? Beware, you have to have a strong stomache img.photobucket...C/mrp8.jpg

nice work on the front gearbox, that might be a first.