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Hot Rod Todd
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On to the main gear. I knew the little 4.5" wheels would not look good, so I found some 5.25" wheels from a friends stores. That's about as big as I could fit without major mods due to the angle the wheel has to have when in the well. (Scale size would be about 6.5", not possible without a major overhaul of the gear location).

With a little bit of grinding, the Robart 635RS mains dropped in. The stock struts had to be turned down just a touch to fit into the 1/2" strut ready gear. I made some wheel covers for the wheels to look a bit more scale.


I used some G10 fiberglass I had to make the strut covers. I decided to make the lower section attach to the axle, and was able to make it so it would slide up over the inner strut cover. I also enclosed the wheel well using some thin plastic sheet and balsa.


I noticed that the stock struts had a lot of play. The linkage had little pins and C-clips that were kind of loose. By using some 6-32 hardware I was able to replace the pins and tighten it up. I also modified the struts to accept 1/4" axles. The stock axles were tiny and I think they bent when I looked at them.
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