Originally Posted by
Fasttrak
Compared to some of you I am slow as molasses when it comes to building these things. Everything went together pretty smoothly, first TLR kit in almost twenty years for me. I am real pleased with the front end, not as much play as the B5M I built a couple months ago, nice and smooth with little play. The shocks were a nice surprise, I like the fact they use conical compression washers opposed to o-rings, should last longer and have less weeping of silicone. I am glad I bought the front and rear low frequency spring kit, for the track I run on the stock springs are pretty soft. The only items I added to the kit for the initial build was the aluminum rear hubs, Acer Racing ceramic bearings and the Schelle slipper assembly with the 69 tooth spur gear. Looking forward to running some packs through this tomorrow.
The shock o-rings are x-rings not compression seals. Just better seals as they have two wipe surfaces per o-ring. Just did not want this to be misleading to others reading. They work really well to not leak but keep an ultra smooth shock.
Originally Posted by
Frank Root
4wd wheels are a different width. As for the off-set, I am not 100% sure, we never checked since the widths are different already.
22-4 wheels will work in a pinch. As Frank stated TLR 22-4 are slightly wider but the offsets are dang close. There is a VERY small change but they fit no the car no problem. Bottom line they are different but work and the change will be ever so slight. I am running DE 22-4 wheels on my 22 3.0 right now. DE did not make there 4wd wheel as wide as the TLR wheel and the offset change is even less. Now I have common 2wd and 4wd wheels! Only need to stock one set of buggy wheels and SC wheels. Life is getting more simple!
