Ok, so I realized that someone was a naughty boy last fall and didn't clean up the R/C before throwing it in the closet... so it's kinda dirty. So... I'm going to run it a few times with the old internals, and then completely disassemble and clean the whole car when I go to rebuild the motor (unless I decide to do a swap but I'm still pondering.)
So, first you need your tools, and I like to keep my R/C stuff separate so I got this cool tackle box.
Here is my poor broken baby... I decided to store it for winter when I slid into a curb and broke the rear lower control arm. Since I live in a 1 bedroom apartment, there aren't many places you can work on an R/C so I decided to use my coffee table since it has a glass top and that way I can just windex the mess clean when I'm done.
Here is a closeup of the damage. It is pretty obvious that I broke it, lol.
I decided a guy who is about to work on a car needs to have alcohol in his system... and since I drank my last beers last night, I made myself a coctail instead.
Ok, so I already bought the replacement parts last season, so I don't even have to leave my apartment to fix it w00t
Alrighty, so there are only three screws holding it on... the pivot screw that holds that arm onto the body and one that holds it onto the spindle. I removed those. Then I removed the single screw that connects the arm to the lower strut assembly. If you look at the comparison, you will notice that there is not much left of the old arm. I was screaming across a parking lot and braked too late, and the car slid into a curb going somewhere between 30-50 mph. The control arm literally blew up. This is why I like the cheap plastic parts... people buy "all" aluminum and they wreck their car once and they bend nearly every part on their car and ruin it, while i just buy $5 worth of parts and get back on the road
Ok, in this picture the new clean control arm is installed, and ready to go.
Reinstall the wheel, and it's done! I also noticed that I bought brand new wheels/tires last season because these look like they've never been driven on, and I honestly don't remember.
Tada! She's all better. I'm going to go run it down at my parent's house today and see how it goes. I'm going to rebuilt her probably in a few weeks hopefully if things go well.
P.S. - This took a total of 7 minutes, and most of that was camera work and getting tools out and putting them away, lol. Why can't real cars be that easy to work on?
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