KIT No. 98 BUILD

[mick whittingham]

A little turning job this morning made the rear hub centres to mimic the half shaft flanges.

Turned a brass disc, dished with a form tool, and tapped M3. Bonded a grub screw in place and used it as a bolt to secure the wheel hub in place.

When all is painted up think this will look pretty accurate.

[mick whittingham]

Painted up and looking good.

[mick whittingham]

Made a start on the front wheel hubs, I want to try and replicate the centre boss of the bearing carrier.

I'm turning a brass disc then milling and shaping it to look the way I want.

I will make the bearing dust cap from steel with a threaded bolt to retain the kit hubs on the bearing shaft.

[mick whittingham]

A little more work on the front bearing hubs.

I drilled the star shaped flanges 1mm and machined the hub down to accept this part.

Then made a facsimile grease cap in brass with a M3 stud to screw into the bearing shaft of the model.

Awaiting some 2mm AF hexagon brass rod to make the bolt heads which will sit in each hole on the star plate.

[mick whittingham]

The bolt heads are made up and soldered in place. Bit of paint and they will look smart.

[simon_manning]

very nice, Looks the part, regards simon manning.

[mick whittingham]

I fitted the front axle and this allowed me to fit the front hubs and road wheels.

The false bearing plate and dust caps look pretty neat. This will retain the hub in the same way that the original bolt would do.

Any one had an issues with toe in or out for the steering? I'm not sure if it will make a huge difference to the steering set up.

Mick

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi Mick

Having run mine we didn't find any major issues with the steering set up.

I do have a bit of play in the steering system , but will check it over before next outing.

Nice wheels though.

Charles

[mick whittingham]

Hi Charles.

Thanks for the reply, did you just set the front wheels parallel? I was toying with a little toe in, like we did with 1/8 scale model race cars. Im not sure if it would make a difference given this is a low speed vehicle.

I'm happy with the look of the wheels, but I will make new wheel nuts in steel as the brass ones don't look right painted.

Mick

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi.

Yes, just set them as parallel as possible.

It would be interesting to here what others thing, I know its no big issue and the car runs fine on a hard surface as well as off road.

Cheers

Charles