Finally got one!

[Deathwish317]

Now, after years and years of looking around and waiting on one to get into the zone I felt comfortable with getting one, I did! Now, I won't have it until next week BUT I do know that it will need a few upgrades to get it to were it should be. What are some upgrades that are a must, I saw a few on ebay that had the sealed bearings(?). Besides doing this, what else can I do that will make it decent in stock-ish form? Thank you! I'll post some pictures of what it looks like later.

[T_Tank]

well do you plan to do crawling in stock form or keeping it more monster truck? the first thing I did was throw out the stock spur an replace it with a normal 48p gear cause the stock gearing in tamiya is imperial which isn't easy to find at your LHS.

I personally don't care for the tamiya usa build a better tlt-1 guide cause it removes the monster truckness from the truck but this guide (abit hard to read unless copy to a note document) will do just about everything with even less buying stuff.
How to Build A Better TLT-1

here is the tamiya usa guide though they buy more parts so not really a stockish guide

https://www.tamiyausa.com/articles/f...0#.UohbEsTvvq8

[Deathwish317]

I'm not sure really, I wouldn't mind doing a crawler but I've been seeing a lot of mega monsters(44 inched monster trucks basically) out there that I wouldn't mind doing. I'm leaning more toward a crawler actually which is what I'll prolly do and work on over winter here in Indiana.

[T_Tank]

well if more going crawling replace the steering knuckles as soon as possible I snapped mine a few days into playing around with mine in stock form with a 10.5t brushless with stock gearing. Grab some knuckles from rcp crawler (super -max clearance tlt aluminum knuckles) **RCP*Crawlers*Super-Max...

Might as well grab their MIP cvd axles as well for the TLT I'd recommend putting shrink wrap over them in case a pin drops out... should be less violent for you since i had one slide free an bind into the knuckle at 25mph... surprisingly nothing broke!