Revotrx3

Hey Evreyone

After haveing 2 battery charges under my belt with this truck, i decited to 100% redo the truck to make it stronger and look better, if anyone has any tips as in how to make this car better, please let me know.

BEFORE:

tamiya trucker

sweet, i have a lunchbox...you might wanna put oil shox on it for a start...will be good to watch it get refurbed

tamiya trucker

here is mine...needs new window and body mounts....was painted a-team but got to wrecked so i did this paint jod real quick just to make it look slightly better

fullauto4u

I think my Pumpkin is due for a overhaul too....it's like 15 yrs old!!!

tamiya trucker

sweet, get it out and take some pics, i think there could be e few peeps out there with these and this thread might bring them all out...


restore.restore.restore

Revotrx3

thxs guys, its going to be blue and white

Revotrx3

Hey finnaly got it done,

tamiya trucker

how come you pained the chassis? ive never seen any one do this before!

warheadforever

Looks good Trev3812!

tamiya trucker

i just noticed the wheely bar [&:] what the hell happened to it lol[X(]

Revotrx3

the wheelie bar, lol. its umm, bent

Tamiya trucker: some one half painted it so i just did a better job. i think it came out ok

tamiya trucker

yeah it looks good, i just never seen it done before.

what electrics you planning on running?

Revotrx3

umm, evader ext esc, and stock motor for now, idk about the future

tamiya trucker

brushless lol

Revotrx3

hmm idk?

NjBasher

i have an original pumpkin too but i need body mount part numbers do you know them

Nick2618

u can put a 5th shock in the rear to. Connects to chassis and tranny ask about it in the return of the lunchbox thread...

ohgrfreak

Yes, none (just kidding, you can probably find them if you spend a few months searching). It's like they don't exist, I ended up having to custom make my own mounts and heck, they're stronger than the stock ones!

I took a pair of long universal body mounts and chopped both in two parts. The bottom parts of both pieces are now the new rear mounts, screwed directly through the chassis into the bottom of the mount, you'll have to drill new mounting points in the chassis.
The top halves is tricky, I took an old chassis and chopped out two rectangular pieces to make up the bottom portion of the front mounts, then after drilling the proper size hole, I used some goop adhesive between the mount and the mount base and after drying, installed it in the stock location.

tamiya trucker

surely you can get them off of e-bay?

i will have a look

fullauto4u

The Midnight Pumpkin body mounts are still available. They are on the "E" parts tree, Tamiya part # 58070

Tower Hobbies has them in stock for $7.99 here; [link=http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXGN42&P=OW]58070[/link]

fullauto4u

Here's my crusty old Pumpkin (mud included), I bought it and the radio in 1993. It has been taking a beating ever since. I've used this to teach my kids to drive RC. It is definately time for a rebuild, the chassis is cracked in the front, rear axle is bent a little and the Parma lexan body is shot. Luckily I have all the new parts I need to repair it and I still have the hard shell, that I painted gloss black and never ran it on the truck so it is still mint. I even have a brand new Parma Midnight Pumpkin replacement body still in tha package.

ohgrfreak

Well no wonder searches for the term body mounts never come up with anything. Those sly dogs.

fullauto4u

If you click on the parts link on Tower's home page, you can lookup parts for a specific brand, then specific vehicle.

Revotrx3

ha, nice trucks

JATO TO THE MAXX

We used to have a Pumpkin, its how we got started in RC

I wsh we still had it [] Fun little truck, it would wheelie on demand