Its been a while but I have been busy with some projects this Panther came along and to be honest was a complete . . . well lets say it needed some T.L.C.
.I thought I had taken pictures of it when it arrived but if I did I don't have them now.The first pics show some bare metal areas where rust had set in.
Metal tanks and not even any primer not a good combination.
Anyway the complete hull was stripped down all suspension removed, torsion bars ground as the suspension had collapsed, this pic shows the suspension parts stripped cleaned and drilled and pinned, as quite a few were loose, in fact in some cases the swing arm moving on the torsion bar spindle was giving the only up and down movement of the swing arm!
In this picture you can see the excessive wear on the wheels where they had been catching each other as the spindles loosened off.
When the smoke unit was removed, it had plenty of oil in it!
This was all cleaned out the unit stripped and put back together with a brand new element as the original was trashed.
Sort some more pics of the progress later on, might be of some interest.
Cheers for now Paul
