My 6016 Restoration has begun
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My 6016 Restoration has begun
Seeing as how everybody is posting up some great builds, I knew I needed to get off my rump and get going on a few project. The first one I wanted to do is to rebuild the 6016 I bought off of eBay.
Overall it's in great shape but I want it to be perfect . Most of the parts look unused but there are just a few parts that are less than perfect. I have quite a few new stock parts to put on. The real key to the puzzle is this set of Tecnacraft wheels. I traded with Melvins Army a a set of larger tecnacrafts for these.
Tonight I was able to polish them up using my neighbors lathe and a bit of Mothers mag wheel polish. As you can see they turned out looking like jewelry.
Overall it's in great shape but I want it to be perfect . Most of the parts look unused but there are just a few parts that are less than perfect. I have quite a few new stock parts to put on. The real key to the puzzle is this set of Tecnacraft wheels. I traded with Melvins Army a a set of larger tecnacrafts for these.
Tonight I was able to polish them up using my neighbors lathe and a bit of Mothers mag wheel polish. As you can see they turned out looking like jewelry.
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Awesome car Jim I knew you wouldn't be able to keep it stock for very long can't wait to see this finished.
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I do have one of the smaller wings I planned on using. when I saw the wing, I thought, hmm its the same shape but I don't remember them being that big.carloco8 wrote:The only thing I think you might want to do is check the wing. It looks like a 6" wing in the pic where as the kit wings were the smaller 4.5" ones.
It's going to be stock with the exception of the tecnacrafts. How could anyone resist not slapping on a set of sweet aluminum wheels? Besides I got three composite craft based RC10's in the pipeline.Dr. Robotnik wrote:Awesome car Jim I knew you wouldn't be able to keep it stock for very long can't wait to see this finished.
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Wheel polishing
It is so hard resisting the call of the alloy wheels isn't it?
Speaking of which, I have to refurbish some of mine and also ream out the rear wheels axle hole to a slightly larger diameter.
You said you had managed to spin yours up on the lathe for polishing and I was wondering how you mounted them?
I think for me, this is my biggest problem to achieve the wheel drilling. The rim of the wheels have very thin ribs to seat the tires and I wouldn't want to crush them by clamping the chuck there. So maybe I should make a custom axle or something...but then I couldn't drill the axle hole.....
Can anyone give me any pointers for this? As although the car is going to be a shelf queen I would sleep better knowing I have reamed the holes out concentrically rather than off centre. I have access to a fully complimented machine shop so you can suggest anything within reason...
P.S. The wheels are the standard T&A/Duratrax style alloys on my JRX2
Speaking of which, I have to refurbish some of mine and also ream out the rear wheels axle hole to a slightly larger diameter.
You said you had managed to spin yours up on the lathe for polishing and I was wondering how you mounted them?
I think for me, this is my biggest problem to achieve the wheel drilling. The rim of the wheels have very thin ribs to seat the tires and I wouldn't want to crush them by clamping the chuck there. So maybe I should make a custom axle or something...but then I couldn't drill the axle hole.....
Can anyone give me any pointers for this? As although the car is going to be a shelf queen I would sleep better knowing I have reamed the holes out concentrically rather than off centre. I have access to a fully complimented machine shop so you can suggest anything within reason...
P.S. The wheels are the standard T&A/Duratrax style alloys on my JRX2
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Re: What??
As you may know pictures don't really show all the minor flaws. Some of the screws are less than perfect. I plan to replace the suspension arms and the rear shock tower is a bit discolored and dirtyscollins wrote:Shodog (Jim) Looks like you already restored it in the very first picture, lol...How can it get any more perfect than that??? Awesome wheels man!
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I don't recall if it ever came in the kit but it utilizes the same hardware that the front sway bar does.Ron Jeremy wrote:Did the rear sway bar come in/with the kit?
your right, that spring cup is dirty, I'll get my team right on it. the threaded rod is the stock 4/40 stuff so it should be correct.justinspeed79 wrote:Oh my god, look how dirty that left rear spring cup is.
J/K, it looks great.
Are those the correct threaded rods/turnbuckles in the rear?
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