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Old 12-03-2016 | 01:07 PM
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Stanford55
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Originally Posted by RepEvox
I got home early last night and pretty much finished up the whole thing aside from maybe a couple hours of loctiting and setting up suspension. I think it's pretty interesting how some little things are completely different to my Mugen or other race kits I've own/driven before. All in a good way.

I did, however, have a couple issues with my kit with no fault to Tekno I'm sure. The manual doesn't really mention sanding plastic parts for the shocks. I was able to get 3 out of 4 smooth as silk. For the life of me, I couldn't get the first shock I built to free up as nicely. Also, I hate threading rod ends. I usually start by hand and after 10 of them on this kit in one night, my hands hurt like a *****. I'm very impressed with the quality of the kit. Like I said, I think the way you remove the plastic shock parts from the sheets may help with smoothing out the individual shock. Machining is all very tight so I might just need to tear down the first shock and make sure there's no plastic bump somewhere creating friction.
This will put an end to your rod end problems: https://www.amainhobbies.com/tekno-r...FYF-fgod0rIO5w...if you're referring to those on the turnbuckles, grease the threads, thread a little bit of the rod end with your hand, hold the turnbuckle with a turnbuckle wrench, finish threading the rod end with a wrench--it will save your hands.

I also found upgrading to Delrin shock cartridges well worth it--machined parts make it a lot smoother--but I guess not really necessary for an MT.

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