Arrma Talion restoration V2

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So today i got myself a fixer upper. An arrma Talion V2. 

So i began work onit tonight... Oh boy was i in for treat, as you can see, it's got a broken diff case, bent rear tower, but the that was the tip of the ice burg. 

As i took off the rear hinge pin mount FR and RR, both plates where bent, i then removed the hinge pins and lower hinge pins.... Your not gunna believe it... But they where bent 🤦 i had a stripped screw on the diff case which was broken anyways so no point in been careful, so tore off the front and opened up the diff.... This was dryer then a sponge left on a sunbed for a few days.. could of used a different analogies but chose this one, so... Diff internals are now soaking in cleaner. 

Tonight i will order a new diff case, I've cleaned up the hub bearings, and cleaned the hubs, also replaced the spacers between the arm and hub to eliminate any slop in the rear rub. I've included some pictures of the bent parts lol.

So i cleaned up the rear arms and guards using pink muc off spray, and then coating them in some GT 85, also wiped down the rear axels with GT85.

This is as far as I've got but stay tuned if your interested in this build, restoration. As I'll be posting updates as i go
Thanks 👍🏻

 

Build part 2
So i stripped out the diff, cleaned them. And reassemble, put some new shims inside. And used green slime to seal the orings, poured some lovely 10k diff oil in there and this baby is good to go.

Found an old diff case, cleaned it up with some bearings blaster, to rid it of any old oil, regreased the bearings. And Everything is sliky smooth! Fitted diff back in the case using a shim, which was 0.2 i believe arrma shims are 0.1 so this is like double shimming it.

Took the shocks apart, fitted some V3-V4 shock caps so i can use the V3-V4 stand offs and shock balls for easier mounting of the shocks. Added some 80w (1000cst) mounted a new rear tower, replace the button heads on the tower with cap heads. This should make taking the tower off easier. I Threadlock the stand offs to stop them coming loose. Re adjusted the droop screws, so hopefully should minimise the rod end breakages.  And then reassemble to put into the chassis rear end is done. 

Lets seeee what joy and happiness the front end will bring 😂😂

 

Ok so the wife was nice enough to let me disappear to get abit more work done on this little beauty. So i stripped Everything out of the centre of the chassis. Battery tray, receiver box, motor, esc servo cleaned all the chassis plate, side guards, esc had its caged all ripped open, the centre diff for some reason was locked up, and wouldn't turn by hand, dry as a bone.... 😔🔥 No gasket and a screw missing. The diff had of corse decided to do a diff poo all over the chassis plate. 

Once the removed the front centre driveshaft, found the front pin had Snapped 😲 and the drivecup decided it loved me and fell onto my bench. (That's one less thing to worry about getting off right? 😂) 

One of the tabs on the esc had snapped off, so i used some scotch double sided tape (massive thanks to @richard Robinson for this amazing tape 😆 and also massive should out to wezley Marshall for giving me the esc cage super stars lads. So I've then cable tied the esc to the tray so that is definitely not going anywhere once the tape sets! Cleaned up the motor mount, and re instailled it. Also thrown in a V3-V4 servo mount on it as they are alot thicker plastic and should help with the flex from the servo. I also cleaned all the inside of the esc, as the hint sink was filled with loose grass a few small stones and a truck load of dirt. 
 
Tonight i will strip the diff, clean all the gears etc inside, check o rings, and replace the gasket..... I say replace... I mean add one also the diff cup needs replacing as i can see a stone or an object of some form (can't Blame Everything on stones right poor stones 😂) has worn down the cup. 

Once everything is rebuilt it's time to add Everything back in the chassis. 

If you guys are enjoying this as much as i am please let me know 😊
As I won't doit again 😂 
Cheers

Whats uppp lovely people, so this build is coming along nicely... 😁 I have to say i honestly don't know how this centre diff was even in one peice 😂 it was that bad. O-rings replaced gasket put on a used but good diff cup, and reassemble diff with some light use of green slime. Not a right lot to add to here. 

Put everything back in, so the battery tray, the centre diff, fed all the wires through into the reciver box, fitted the STX2 radio gear. I sealed it all in with a thin layer of silicon grease around the seals on the reciver box. And Everything cleaned up 100k diff oil in the centre.

I'll start work on the front this evening hopefully and have it ready for the customer tomorrow. 😊