No, I have no movement between the axles and the bearings, the shimming will help.

remember though, a little bit of movement is fine, a car with no slop is usually binding or shows up any other minor imperfection in the rest of the components.

It comes without a body but that's okay since I'm not totally happy with the rally based body choices in kit form.

Has anyone upgraded their front knuckles to aluminium ones? After about 25 or so cartwheels/front flips, face plants of my tt02 I've finally busted my left front knuckle... i've opted to order the standard parts as they're cheap.. but thinking now maybe I should've gone aluminium ..

If so has anyone had issues of the aluminium knuckles bending under stress from bashing etc?

Currently I have been using the reenforced plastic ones. These are on the a parts sprue for the TT02D you can buy the A sprue separately. It's well worth it as you get a lot of the key components (steering, towers and hubs) all in the harder plastic.

I have also bought the aluminium front parts from jaz hobby on eBay. They seem good value but they are in my spares bundle atm as I prefers plastic where possible.

If rallying then I would have no problem swapping the out to these parts.

Currently I have been using the reenforced plastic ones. These are on the a parts sprue for the TT02D you can buy the A sprue separately. It's well worth it as you get a lot of the key components (steering, towers and hubs) all in the harder plastic.

I have also bought the aluminium front parts from jaz hobby on eBay. They seem good value but they are in my spares bundle atm as I prefers plastic where possible.

If rallying then I would have no problem swapping the out to the alum hubs.

Wouldn't have thought they'd change the plastic just for d spec!

Only the A parts, they are very good.

yeah i got the jaz ones. They were the cheapest and included the collars etc which the others don't!

I'm already eyeing a buggy for xmas... good learning experience since the tt-02 is my first!

Do you have a part number for those by any chance?

Part number is 19000614

Saying that I have just broken one of the front hubs (Although I whacked a board at full tilt)

Basically it comes with harder plastic versions of the towers, upper bulkheads, Front and rear hubs (and spacers) and it also comes with the steering arms. So most of the key parts you want to be stiffer are there.

You will still need to file down the limiters on the front uprights if you want a lot of lock though.

I am now going to try the Jaz hobby hubs to see how they work.

Damn, the reinforced a-parts has an 8 digit part number, which means they're not readily available, and is by order. Why can't Tamiya make this an official TT02 hop-up?

By the way, if I ordered one, would it come with two trees or only one?

Mine came with 2 trees and the wheel hex's on a seperate sprue with a silver metallic coating.

One thing I don't like about the jaz set are the screws. I'm not sure if it's possible to tighten the hex screw at the top as I may limit turning. Took it out to the track and the screw and collar went missing

I have a feeling the stock parts may be better as the screws stay quite tight in the plastic knuckle

Today i looked at the chassis to loose some weight, did some things to remove some material but not much.
The car is fully equiped (except my transponder) and i got it down to 1180gr.
It allmost weights 200 gr less then my other standard TT-02.

Pics please