237 - Forced Break

No chance to sit at the work bench this week, so long days of doubts about Wild One gearing with its new motor have been spent.

236 - It's All To Be Redone

Last week I was very happy to have some time over than usual to work on my Wild One but, when I've been on the workbench, I've been grabbed by a kind of rush to finish as much as possible and by the anxiety do all in the best way that, in the end, almost all I've done is a crap.

Ok, the Dirt Tuned Motor is in place with its pinion but the cables soldering are awful... and I did it twice! I made better soldering when I was 15 with the cheap supermarket soldering iron I own at that time. I will do it for the third time.

The cabling inside the car is rough to my standards, I prefer doing it in a much tider way but I wasn't in the righ mood, clearly. Better times will come.

235 - The Magic Tape

Almost a year ago during the painting of my Delta Ray Buggy I've made a trick with some adhesive cut offs to gain a decent finishing. Considering that the results wasn't bad I've bought on Amazon a chrome finishing tape to use, if needed, in the futures paintings.

Before...

A body change for my Wild One is not expected soon so I've decided to try to revitalize it using the magic tape I've saved for the right opportunity.

... and after!

I have to admit the it's very easy to use, the result on this old lexan body is not so good but is good enough for a quick and coarse laying and it will be better for sure when more accurate.

234 - Wild One's Electronic Almost Complete

Today some progresses have been made for the completion of my Wild One: steering servo and steering link are now in place, the receiver has been placed in the chassis and the Dirt Tuned motor sits on the back of the car. Motor haven't been wired yet because I want to take some time to do a tidy work keeping its connectors hidden in to the chassis.

233 - Rear End Completed

 

After the clean and the repair of the transmission I've been able to complete with the suspensions and the shafts the Wild One's rear end. I have to point out that I really love how clean and tidy it looks, a true classic beauty even without the motor and without the rubber joint boots eliminated after the upgrade from dog bones to universals.

232 - Wild One New Diff

Ages are elapsed from when I broke my Wild One's differential using the Super Stock motor with the wrong pinion, months ago spares gears have been purchased so, considering that in the last weeks I'm rebuildint the car, I have no excuses to postpone the long waited repair.

After the cleaning from old grease and from the metal chippins coming from the broken diff old gears have been swapped with a new set.

The trasminssion case shows some scruffs but I love if this cars look like a well used bass.

231 - Rebuilding The Green One

 

The rebirth of my Wild One has started today screwing the suspension to the chassis front end and putting the roll cage and the transmission cage in their place. The motor haven't been yet swapped with the Dirt Tuned but for first I want to put the car togheter again before doing repairs or improvements.

The front end will remain the same, as assembled the first time, without the bumper and with the black painted shock towers also the scars on the paint will be kept in deference to the wabi-sabi concept.

Some hardware under the chassis have been also installed.