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GPM Front Upper Suspension Arm

GPM Steering Bellcrank set (except for the turnbuckles and Tamiya's ball connector)




The bellcrank uses linkage that passes through the chassis tub, down underneath


top view


Bottom view

GPM C-Hub and Front Lower Suspension

with Tamiya's platic plate


assembled


bottom view


angled view

Tamiya's outdrive , shaft and GPM UJ

The Rear Diff Gear.

Tamiya offered two options to build your diff , you can install locked or unlocked diff.
If you choose to install the unlock diff you need to use the spider gear same as the front diff less the Blu Tack thAT i built earlier.
I will run this using the fully locked diff , to do that I need the two plastic pieces that included in the kit. It's splined to fit the large bevel gear.

The rear locked diff parts


almost done


Now it's time to assemble the locked diff into the axle housing.

The axle parts.


axles riding on bearings

I applied black gears into the gear and marine grease into the bearings after this pictorial.

Now I have completed the solid axle.

Junfac's 4 link setup

Rear solid axle and the 4 link parts


almost there


It’s body mount installation time again.


Another shot of the rear axle and 4 link installed on the chassis


Almost done

Nice build and awesome pictures - I like the gun metal coloured parts. When You bling, show it

Thanks

ireg wrote:Thanks

Congratulations!!! Awesome Picture and Build That is 10.3 of 10

thanks man!

Continuing

Now for the Shock assembly?



Tamiya provided an oil filled shocks but not a high tech like the one you're using for race.
The Shock shafts is like a nail with a flat head at one end, Shaft and piston in one piece.
Assembling it is pretty simple, attach this attach that , fill with oil, bleed, cap and put the spring retainer and your done.

But there is much easier than that, buy a pre-assembled shocks .

GPM Shocks


Front Shock installed


Rear Shock intalled


DONE! As I have mentioned it so easy

Protection time

Junfac's Front Skid Plate installed


Junfac's Rear Skid Plate installed


Finally the belly Skid Plate. I have a 2nd thought of using this one, as this will lower my ground clearance.

But it's a waste if I will not install it. I will just remove it if necessary.

So here it goes, Another shot of the bottom.
I can pretty say it's almost done



The only missing are the electronics and tires and of course the body shell (I hate paint works )

very cool build cant wait to see trail pics when its done...

Do you plan to run this? IMO you've made it too nice to run. My jeep is one of my favorite runners so if you do run it, you're gonna love it. On mine I've locked the rear diff but kept an open front diff. The chassis would benefit from locking the front diff and as long as you run in the dirt, the scrubbing of the inside wheel on a turn will not make much difference to the turn radius. on the street you'll notice it and it might put stress on the integrated chassis gearbox. Just as good measure you should pick up an extra chassis and top gear cover. I've seen the plastic on the mounting holes get weak allowing the screws to loosen and in turn allowing the gears to skip. I really like the Junfac skid plates, I may pic up some of those. Did you check out some of the RC channel parts before buy the GPM?

vintage88 wrote:very cool build cant wait to see trail pics when its done...

me too

shodog wrote:Do you plan to run this? IMO you've made it too nice to run. My jeep is one of my favorite runners so if you do run it, you're gonna love it. On mine I've locked the rear diff but kept an open front diff. The chassis would benefit from locking the front diff and as long as you run in the dirt, the scrubbing of the inside wheel on a turn will not make much difference to the turn radius. on the street you'll notice it and it might put stress on the integrated chassis gearbox. Just as good measure you should pick up an extra chassis and top gear cover. I've seen the plastic on the mounting holes get weak allowing the screws to loosen and in turn allowing the gears to skip. I really like the Junfac skid plates, I may pic up some of those. Did you check out some of the RC channel parts before buy the GPM?

Yup this will be my backyard runner .
Rc channel is my first choice, but things get in different direction when I saw a GPM complete package auction for CC01 (except the steering link). The current bid was only 35usd and its only 3hrs left. I put my max bid to 51. After the time lapse I won for 51usd.