bullyhys

Hello all,

I too have a Hooben Elephant. I purchased it for myself as a birthday present last year.

I first built as "box stock" to see what was needed to fixed.

I was totally not thrilled with the plastic tracks, couldnt keep them on no matter what I tried, so I saved up and purchased the metal
Asiantam Metal track kit, then found that the track drive sprockets didnt match up to the Hooben drive shafts.

so I redid the drive engines and installed a set of 3:1 brass gear boxes with 400 can motors I purchased from Phil some time ago.

I also found that I could not mount the wheel trucks without major work, so I modified the road wheels to fit the new tracks.

Now this is a awesome setup! All drive test are great! no track issues at all, my electronics setup is EL-Mod.

my radio is a epclipse 7 with an 8ch rcvr.
I'm still undecided as to the gun mount. so far no major issues there.

I will post pics as soon as I take them