PART 1 continued:

Now on to the mechanical that I feel is good.

Road wheels. These are one piece metal with rubber tires and two bearings. They are held onto the suspension arm with a stainless steel axle/screw similar to the way Tamiya does it on their Abrams, Leopard 2, Sheridan, Pershing to name a few. The one negative are the hub caps. These are not pressure fitted like HengLong caps and need to be glued or magnetically attached. I chose to glue mine on.

Suspension arms. These are rather stout, similar in size and feel to the ones used on the Tamiya Abrams. The suspension arms use two bearings, one on the outside of the hull and the other on the inside. These hold the suspension arms rather precisely in place and provide for very smooth movement.

Torsion bars. The torsion bars appear to be stainless steel and are reasonable thick. The are easy to add tension onto for tuning of the suspension which unfortunately was needed as the M60 had a rather noticeable sage to one side as it came from the factory. A few tweaks to the torsion bars and this leveled out the tank. The one negative I feel is the rather poorly molded torsion bar "lock down" covers. The poor molding I feel makes them the weak link in the suspension system. I have already had new "lock down" covers designed and made out of super strong engineering material that will be replacing the stock covers.



Road wheel and axle.

Bearings on suspension arm.

Torsion bars and black plastic "lock down" covers.

PART 2: Electronics. To be continued...