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Who did that anno color on the plate for you ! I wish those white rear rims were not so hard to find!

Charlie don't surf wrote:Who did that anno color on the plate for you ! I wish those white rear rims were not so hard to find!

I bagged the plate off Rick he did me a good deal as always

All XXT rears are hard to find. These ones came with the first XXT I bought as a spare. Have yet to see a pair on eBay, will keep an eye out though.

This is not the final body shell as I messed up the blue frame round the windows, I want a better match to the Trinity blue, but for now I thought i'd post up a few more shots.

I had to stick a tonne of spacers in the shocks so the truck sits nice, with the front a little lower than the back, just to get the stance right, driveshafts are level at the rear and the fromt wishbones are a little bit under level.

Oh and I am gonna stick yellow wheels back on it too, just because they'll match the shell better.

Enjoy...

jamin wrote:Oh and I am gonna stick yellow wheels back on it too, just because they'll match the shell better.

so um, whatcha gunna do with those purty white wheels?

lowrydesign wrote:

jamin wrote:Oh and I am gonna stick yellow wheels back on it too, just because they'll match the shell better.

so um, whatcha gunna do with those purty white wheels?

Keep them I'm afraid! Spent ages bringing them back to life with peroxide!

As always my friend your truck looks spectacular!!!!!!!

bearrickster wrote:As always my friend your truck looks spectacular!!!!!!!

Thanks Rick!

Damn that looks good!! Thats one very fine XXT - my favouite from this site so far!

Its a real shame that the wheels/wheel disks, don't really go with the body colours as with the shell off they really work well with the Trinity blue parts & the matching red spur gear..... rather than change the wheels could you adapt your paint scheme to have red where you normally have yellow?

Its funny about the wheels - I missed out on a big bunch of XXT wheels & tyres on Ebay from Germany by about £1 Many of the wheels were new/unused - most were fronts but there were a couple of sets of rears - I only need 1 set of rears & didn't really want to get into a bidding war over them - think they all went for around £35 in the end.

DerbyDan wrote:Damn that looks good!! Thats one very fine XXT - my favouite from this site so far!

Its a real shame that the wheels/wheel disks, don't really go with the body colours as with the shell off they really work well with the Trinity blue parts & the matching red spur gear..... rather than change the wheels could you adapt your paint scheme to have red where you normally have yellow?

Its funny about the wheels - I missed out on a big bunch of XXT wheels & tyres on Ebay from Germany by about £1 Many of the wheels were new/unused - most were fronts but there were a couple of sets of rears - I only need 1 set of rears & didn't really want to get into a bidding war over them - think they all went for around £35 in the end.

Thanks for the comments Dan, I know have my ultimate XXT, I dont think there is anything else I want to put on this truck!

I agree, the white wheels and red disks look better with the shell off. I am going to put the yellow wheels back on with the red disks, it will look more co-ordinated with the shell, but less with the trinity parts.

Maybe I will keep this shell and put some pink XXT stickers on it - that'll help. Or maybe I'll put the black wheel discs on it and see what that looks like - the combinations are endless! I have two sets of different coloured wheels and loads of wheel discs - I can accessorise! PMSL!

Those rear wheels are a b1tch to find. I have one more set (I bought another NIB XXT to get them!!!) - but thats for my Kinwald replica I want to do (an original XXT with graphite bits not the G+). I am keeping an eye out for you though bud.

Jamin

kenooze wrote:Jamin,

You have to remove this wrong XXX style rear hubs to replace them by your right XX Cr set !

Well after well over a year of waiting, I finally have some in my grubby hands! Two sets in fact (big thanks to Aaron for sending these over), the 2nd set to be used on my XX4 build

just read the whole thread, awesome build there dude its getting hard to find parts for the XX now.

RobScott wrote:just read the whole thread, awesome build there dude its getting hard to find parts for the XX now.

Thanks dood, I'll post some more pics once I get the new hubs fitted. Yeah, lucky that I've done most of builds now, or at least got all the bits I need!

aye plenty of pics needed indeed!!!

you dont happen to have a front bulkhead brace do you? doesnt have to be a minter, it for my XX race car, i keep snapping bulkheads, and bulkheads are getting hard to find :S

RobScott wrote:aye plenty of pics needed indeed!!!

you dont happen to have a front bulkhead brace do you? doesnt have to be a minter, it for my XX race car, i keep snapping bulkheads, and bulkheads are getting hard to find :S

I am sure I have some new plastic ones spare if they are any use?!

plastic ones like this?