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Finish the build, finish the build, finish the build......

If it were a Tamiya it would be discontinued before he finished it.

LOL, okay, I'll get back to that prolly tomorrow... I was planning on more today but my wife got the flu and ended up taking care of her.

RC10th wrote:If it were a Tamiya it would be discontinued before he finished it.

RC10th wrote:Why not start a single "New Car Tech" section stashed away somewhere?

guess we'll have to so that everything the admins/mods say and/or do isn't constantly questioned or challenged.

ehh screw it, i'll just put it back. not in the mood.

keep building it! and let us know what if any parts can be but on a vintage rc10, stuff like hub carriers etc...

I hadn't even thought of that... I'll keep an eye on that. So far... Nothing in Bag A-AA, I might try to get though the next three steps tonight.

Okay, so on to Bag B, Steps 1-3... Its a good idea to pay a little extra attention to this section. Its not hard, its just it "Could" get messy if your not paying attention.
Parts Removed
Step 1; Steering Knuckles

These are the 2 options for the axles. They can be in-line or trailing. Trailing is called #4 and I could not tell if there was a number on them, however the other ones were clearly #3, so I used the ones without numbers. Once you put it together you can totally see that they are the trailing position. Trailing is what the manual suggests, so that is what I used. They are the bottom ones in this picture. this is the full assembly of the Knuckles with the axles and More Big Balls: Step 2; Castor Blocks. Again you have options. Can be 5 degree or 0 degree. The manual said 5 was the standard setup so that is what I installed. More big balls: Step 3; . Final assembly to Front Arms, Pretty straight forward, hinge pins and screws.

Uprights and Hub Assembly Uprights to arms BTW, I decided the Photobucket pics were too big. There is no feasible use for these parts on an old RC10. AND Big Balls!

All Turnbuckles in the B5 kit are 50mm or 2" (50mm = 2")

Orange wrote:All Turnbuckles are 50mm or 2"

I believe they are all 2". The B4's fit all the way around.

That is basically what I was saying,

Ya so, that last post was kinda screwy. don't know what happened. So I'm going to re-do it.

Orange wrote:That is basically what I was saying,

Ya so, that last post was kinda screwy. don't know what happened. So I'm going to re-do it.

My bad I read it as a question, after looking at it a second time I realized what you were saying.

Okay, going back to photobucket. Seems to be way easier I guess.

Bag C



First step is adding the arms onto the front of the chassis. I tried installing the arms as they came out of the bag but they were too tight. With previous B4 buggies I have sanded the black color off of the hinge pins with 600 grit. So I did that and they were still tight, so I ran my Kyosho 3.05 reamer through the hinge pin holes on the front bulkhead. Freed it up nicely.


Step 2 is adding the Shock tower w/ball studs and top shock mounting screws installed. This is where I encountered the first problem with the kit. The nuts that hold the screw on are an oddball size. Too big for 5.5mm nut driver, too small for 1/4" nut driver. So I just went into my trusty screw and nut bins and got 4 nice and normal sized nuts. The oddball nut is the example in the next pic:

Here is the shock tower installed with Big Balls

Bumper installed Step 2 complete


Step 3 is installing the rear arms onto the suspension plate. the kit came with three suspension blocks First number is toe and second number is anti-squat From top to bottom, 3/2, 3/1 and 2.5/2.. Same thing with the inner hinge pins. I chucked them up in drill press and sanded them with 600 grit. Also the inner hinge pins on the rear are bigger than 3mm. they are not 4mm so somewhere in-between.

The kit setup is to use 3 degrees toe with 2 degrees anti squat.

Here is the rear suspension plate added to the back of the chassis with the arms attached. Shock tower top plate and balls in the next step.


Step 4 and 5 was top plate and shock tower install


Bag C complete

Next bags are the transmission and I have a lot to say on that. May be in the morning.