Monster Truck Madness – Building the TLR Tuned LMT
Hey all and Happy Thursday!
I wished to share the place I’m at with my TLR Tuned Losi LMT equipment and share some total construct impressions to date.
In my 30+ years in the pastime, I’ve one way or the other by no means constructed a Losi equipment earlier than. Kinda wild once I take into consideration that, however it’s true!
The directions are properly laid out, and every step of the construct has all the things enclosed in pertinent luggage. Each piece of {hardware} wanted has a scale to dimension drawing in every step, and that is very good to make use of when items of {hardware} might be comparable in dimension to one another.
The match and end of the carbon fiber chassis is completely trick. I had thought of portray it with a faint sweet crimson to match my eventual paint scheme, however acquired spooked as a result of the CF simply seems too good to mess with IMO.
I did paint the 4 hyperlink bars in Tamiya TS Red, with no primer. I ought to’ve primed it first as the feint grey on the machined hyperlinks took plenty of crimson to get the colour to pop. The finish consequence regarded good although!
A observe on the diffs- I really didn’t fill mine with 100k oil as is included and really helpful by Losi. I used Cow RC Udder Butter as a grease. The motive being is like I my entrance and rear diffs open for racing functions and I really feel the truck simply handles higher like this (my RTR model has open diffs with no oil), however it’s all private choice (hey, that’s why you construct a equipment!).
A pair ideas for these of you constructing certainly one of these-
- Open up each saggy for a given lettered step and prepare issues this fashion. Once you full a lettered step completely, do that with the subsequent one. Some {hardware} is cut up in several baggies and it may be a bit complicated in any other case. This alleviates that.
- Make certain the hex driver you might be utilizing is an effective one with no rounding off of the tip, as a number of of the chassis screws will put up good resistance as you thread them in, and you don’t wanna strip a screw. I used to be utilizing an outdated wrench and discovered this out the laborious means.
Alright, again to the constructing and (quickly) portray!
April 2nd is my first race day of 2023 so the truck might want to full by then. Full report and construct particulars after that!