It turned out to need a lot more work than the auction photos let on (I paid too much). And I was concentrating on getting my pancar together and ready to run. I was about ready to cut my losses and unload it cheap.
But over time it grew on me, and I started budgeting it into my plans.
As it sits now, I've changed the receiver, the steering servo, the ESC, the motor, and the tires.
Not to mention all the stripped or missing screws and lost E-clips.
And the body is trashed, cracked all over. It's going away when I get a replacement.
This is how it looked when I bought it (auction photos):
And here is hot it looks now:
The Hitec transmitter and receiver glitched with me when I first ran the truck. A lot. So the first thing I did was swap out a Futaba receiver and program the truck into the memory of my Futaba transmitter. Funny thing is, I traded that radio off to one of my friends and they have used it on their car and it hasn't glitched at all.
The steering servo is a new Futaba, the original Hitec worked but had been run with a servo horn that slipped and the splines on the shaft were just about slick.
The Orion 13x2 motor and Novak ESC were both great. But there was no reverse (good for racing but not much fun out in the wild) and I wanted the motor for my car. I found a used HPI ESC/motor combo (seller switched to brushless) on eBay so I swapped out both.
The tires are new. Auction said they were take-offs from a T4, but they fit this truck perfectly.
And so, now that introductions have been made, I think I'll keep her.
And I'm happy, or at least I was until I broke a ball end on today's run . . .
Oh well.
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