Hello again,
Made the second set of shaft extensions for the front two gear box shafts and installed them and the sprockets.Tested all the motors to get them running in the same direction.Connected the two right side and then the two left side motors togeather for test running.Put on the tracks and adjusted them for proper length.Then I ran each side directly off a battery at full speed,got a slight wobble in all four sprockets as expected.As good or better than on a typical HL tank,so was happy with the test for proper tracking and no apparent binding.Did notice the last road wheel on each side did like to jump around more than I liked,so after looking it over to see how best to deal with this did the following.==The road wheel arms(don't know the tec-name for them)on these tanks are set out a little more than 1/8 inch from the tank hull,this allows them to flex some-what and allows for some unwanted slopp.I cut a 1/2 inch strip from sheet plastic to reach the full length of the hull and placed this between the suspension arms and the hull.
this was glued to the lowest part of the hull,now there is mabe 1/32 inch clearence and this will help stop these arms from flexing inwards like they were able to before.Now I decided to glue the front and back road wheel arm in a fixed position.Test ran each side again,worked like a charm.Tracks ran very true now,no flexing wheels or arms.The remaining 5 road wheels on each side still operate independently.I'm very impressed at this point with what Power I believe this tank is going to have.I would expect this will be able to climb a very steep incline,probbly run out of traction before it would run out of power.Also will add I flipped the tank over and on each of the four road wheel arms (2 front & two back)I cut a piece out of sheet plastice that would fit tightly inside the backside of each of the four arms and glued it to the hull and the arm.Very solid now and fool proof.This can be seen in the pictures I will attach.Well I think I have covered every thing thus far.Pictures to follow----BIGMIG