Wraith Kit

[motopreserve]

Looking great. Glad to hear it performed well. I'm at the point where I need to cut the Lexan. Unfortunately, not confident the painting will go well with the temps below zero here!

[Eric0424]

Originally Posted by motopreserve

Looking great. Glad to hear it performed well. I'm at the point where I need to cut the Lexan. Unfortunately, not confident the painting will go well with the temps below zero here!

Temps and in the 40°'s here, not great for painting but I could get it done with a small space heater. However, the rain seems to hit every 36-40 hours, so there's no chance of getting anything to stick right.

[John_Fizel]

Thanks motopreserve! I was running the salamander in the garage to get my painting done. Hope yours goes well!

John

[motopreserve]

I really wish there had been better photos of the cut pieces in the instructions. Some of the lines were non-existent and the pressure to get it perfect is intense!!!

I have a propane wall unit at the bike shop. It does "ok" when it's below zero. If I could hit it and quit it, no biggie. But I want try to do it right, so the painful part will be waiting between coats and for it to dry!

Did you sand the edges at all before painting? I feel it could be a little neater in some spots but not sure how Lexan takes to fine grit wet/dry paper.

Thanks.

[John_Fizel]

I used a dremel with a med sanding drum. I did it before I painted. I need to straighten up some of the lines after painting as it's more noticeable, and some paint shows on the edges. I figured that should clean it up nicely.

[youngquist89]

Originally Posted by John_Fizel

Did you mount the rc4wd tie rod below and the the drag above the steering arms?

It does appear that the VP doesn't have enough bend in my case.

John

I put the toe rod below the knuckle bracket and the drag above the bracket with a small spacer in between the top 2. Truck looks awesome

[motopreserve]

Thanks for the Dremel tip. I'm sure the paint makes things stand out - so I'll give it a shot before I paint.

[altd896]

I had put up with a similar issue with the tie rod (even though I had VP knuckles) till I was working on the servo arm hitting the bumper & found I could improve the tie rod clearance at the same time.

Initially I just changed out the stock servo posts to some RCBros posts, they're a much slimmer design.
To get a little more clearance I then made my self a new servo plate, I hadn't at that point discovered the DCW de-wanger, that moved the posts back another 2mm.
That solved the servo arm hitting the bumper.
It had the added advantage of pulling the servo horn & drag link back from the tie rod, which allowed me to roll the tie rod up a little which let it fit over the diff cover a little better .
It did however introduce a clash between the servo horn & the diff cover when turning left, this was solved by flipping the servo over & running the drag link to the left instead of right knuckle.



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[John_Fizel]

I had to spin the servo mounts 180 deg. to get the horn not to hit. A little more work removing the servo now. Hopefully I wont need to do that anytime soon. I think the lowering kit caused some of that too though.

John

[John_Fizel]

I'm still using the stock mounts. Not replacing until they break :-)

[John_Fizel]

I have about an 1/8" clearance at full compression