TA02 rebuild
 

I'm rebuilding the chassis to compete in the scale comp. It's got soft springs allready. They are AE brown buggy springs. Both diffs are locked also. I'm fixing broken drive shafts and missmatched hardware. New rims and tires. Also got a O.J. bronco body for it.

looks pretty good to me...i have a TA02 myself i was wondering is that the TC setup? or is that the truck setup? i need to find out if ANYONE knows where to get the longer suspension arms at

I think it's the TC setup not 100% shure though. Why do you need longer arms?
Cleaned it up, mounted tires, fixed what I could.
Still need longer body mounts and need some more srews. Also need to paint the body.

Wow, looks awesome body fits it good.

I'm also modifying a TA02 Hummer for Crawlin. I've learned a few tricks to help give it more underbody clearence.

For the rear, use longer shocks as the suspension isn't drooped all the way as it is. You can get another half inch of height in the rear by using longer shocks.

The front is a real pain, but you can do some grinding on the nuckels to let the suspension droop more too, and you can also grind down the points where the front suspension setup attaches to the chassis.

All that does help, and I recomend it.

i still need some stock parts...i would like to get some longer suspension arms for mr susp. travel....but i never thought about using longer shocks in the rear...which shocks would anyone recommend for a build like this...i think maybe i`ll stick with my TC setup....looks great with those scale looking BFG`s...where can i get tires like that? awesome looking

damn sorry to double post but i need to find out where to get stock parts on line...i tried to look on ebay..i didnt find anything..maybe i`m looking in the wrong places lol

well i looked on ebay..and i struck gold! well for me that is lol i found a COMPLETE rear suspension (upper and lower susp. arms, shocks, hub carriers, and some screws, shower tower and even body mounts) all for about 25 bucks! :flipoff: i`ve been looking for this forever and i just found my rear dogbones too...so now its time to search for some good tires...i`ve been seeing people run i guess TLT tires and rims? would that be kinda big for the ta-02? i kinda wanna get this truck up in the air some lol 8)

are ya gona paint it white like the OJ bronco:flipoff:

yea cole82 u should paint it white lol :flipoff: ........i think for me i`m going to run my old mustang body that came with the chassis to begin with...its pretty banged up lol thats just until i can find another body

Thanks for the encouragement guys.
I would have painted it tonight, but the hobby shop closed before I could get there.
Sorry no OJ did it paint. It's going to be blue and tan. Just like the one my neighbor had.

actually after seeing the original f-150 body...i say make it look like that...i mean cut the front and rear bumpers off....and if you can..make like a stinger front bumper like on some old school baja trucks...that would look pretty bad *** IMO. what wheels are those anyways? they look pretty nice.

They are AE NTC3 8 spoke chrome wheels. All for for $10 is a great deal.
http://www.teamassociated.com/enlarge/2408.htm
The rear is going to get a bumper with tire carrier. Since the body only came with a rollpan out back. The front I'm going to wait and see how it looks first.

not trying to hijack the thread here but are there any other r/c sites where i can learn more about the ta02 trucks? ill be buying one soon, i really like them for some reason...

Scale4x4 I think it's called someone else should know the name.

Scale4x4rc.us

thanks man!

I finished it for now. I want to change some things but it runs.
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