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Fairly certain the following will do it 1x TL-01 pins 2x 54695 GF-01 pins and suspension bridge 1x 54395 22mm pins 2x 53539 the shims/spacers too What I bought for a planned but not realized dragon build Pretty certain I crabbed the info from Taffer’s thundershot(?) gallery. The lengths made sense vs the manual. (And now many of these are in my HS ii, with ludicrous numbers of spacers til I find some pins around 35mm or so)

@chris.alex what tape do you use there? Have one of these en route, and thinking ahead for my build, seems it might be good to try this pre-emptively. (BTW, great color scheme)

Go my new Hotshot II rere out for a test drive (pre-stickering) with my 6-year-old alongside our Midnight Pumpkin. Aside from the Pumpkin I've not driven a Tamiya kit since my Grasshopper (nearly 40 years ago, gulp), and it was pretty hilarious to discover that the HS goes more-or-less where you point it (I am certain a good driver, or anyone used to a modern buggy would disagree), vs the wacky fun of the pumpkin. Spent about an hour switching cars and chasing each other around the back yard - shout-out to modern battery technology for that. Pretty certain I'm going to investigate some steering mod for the pumpkin, particularly since the suspension got battered enough that one of the ball nuts on the front suspension somehow popped off its screw (which remains in the knuckle), so I need to do a little surgery anyhow. <wanders off to look for threaded rod>.

OK, just got my shipping email (4 days after order, on thanksgiving, so who know what it real about it)

I’ve not, but when I’ve ordered parts from Tamiya in the past it’s taken 4 or 5 working days to change from “dispatched to warehouse” (or whatever it says) to actually shipping.

Yes, that’s the spot I meant, thanks for working it out (apologies for the vagueness!). Just gave the arms a forward/backward wiggle and see what you mean about the possibilities for slop reduction. Wow. Their little (after) lives have so much more than I expected 🤣 In fact I had the electronics box to finish up first. While I guess the answer is “stiffness”, I do wonder what problem the designers were trying to solve when they cooked that up. With the HobbyWing ESC switch being not-at-all close to the Tamiya switch mounts, this one will be a “turn it on and off using the battery connector.” thanks for your insights!

Firstly, what a wealth of knowledge is here! Thanks all for sharing. Having recently got my feet wet (they’ve been dry since owning an original Grasshopper back in the mid 80s) with a midnight pumpkin that my 6 year old is bashing to death, I decided to build one of the 4wd models I couldn’t afford as a kid, so enter the Hotshot II. I’ve built the suspension arms with e-clipped suspension pins in an effort to avoid stressing them with the screw pins. Do folks still recommend getting the front suspension brace to strengthen that area, even if I didn’t use the screw pins? I did use the two shortest screw pins to attach the mounts for the front damper - they seem to be actually fastening the mount to the lower arm rather than just being a pivot - I heated them before fastening. Is that a known point of failure or generally okay? Last question - does anyone know where some of those e-clips fly off to now and again? Hope it’s somewhere nice. it’s been a fun build so far (tho just about to assemble my first ever CVAs, perhaps my opinion will shortly change) - only thing bugging me is that 3 of the 4 corners have wonderfully floppy suspension (before dampers are on!) but back left seems stiffer - bottom left arm was tight around both hinge pins I tried in that spot. No doubt it’ll wear in (or not even matter when the dampers are in place), it just offends my sometimes overactive sense of symmetry.