Building my Hi-Lift nice but.....

[maxHiLux]

Yes you all read it well, I found some small irritations on this very very nice truck;

• The bag numbering is not always compliant with the manual. For instance in bag BA shouldcontain far more stuff then it actually does. Not a very serious matter since all the stuff is there, but you have to think well before building;
  
• More serious: when I wanted to screw my shift servo stand onto the chassis holes in one of the metal chassis frames  were to small so the screws I had to use didn't fit.
  
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Further its a real Tamiya kit, fun to built and really technical joy to see appear. Anyone else had some of these issues please let us know.

 

Max

[Corpse Thrower]

I agree with the screw/parts bag issue. I had the same irritating experience when building mine. It was a a pain to have about 10 bags open and to have to go back and forth for different screws. Then again, maybe I just wasn't doing it right.

[DJTheo]

Also had the issue with the manual, stating wrong screw bags, but not the chassis threads being too small.

Cheers 

[SGNAS]

I had an issue with the screwbags too, going back and forth between lots of pots. In the end worked out that "BA" screws came in lots of packs for use at the point they needed to be opened but were still called "BA" if they came in bag "C". Oh and I really missed the little line drawing of the car on the bag tags you used to get with the SS etc, when did they stop?

Eventually I poured all the bags onto one tray and picked the fixings out as and when I needed them.

 Has anyone done a parts count? It was a complex build. Interesting to use threadlock again, now I remember why my SS manual has blue streaks in it[:$]

 I have quite a few parts leftover, which is lucky as I have already lost two screws.

Tip for those who have not built yet. Use threadlock where you think it is required not just the odd occasion Tamiya say so[:@]

[barney buggy collector]

i had the screw problem but it didnt really phase me.

problem i had was the lugs on J6 and the grooves on the 30T gear.there was no way the lugs were going to fit in the grooves.so,a little bit of filing and sanding and it slips in nicely.

 

tomorrow i start on the diffs etc.

[SGNAS]

If I had bothered reading the manual and looking at the diagrams of bag contents I would have sussed it quicker[:$]

Who waited to step 37 to put the tyres on the rims. Tamiya really ought to know that is step 1 everytime!

[Shodog]

These problems appear trivial compared to building cars in the old days where you got 4 screw bags and you had to hunt for them on every step.

[barney buggy collector]

the screw bags didnt worry me.(tomy intruder adonis was a nightmare.)

 

hopefully ill have the whole thing done today except the body.i havnt even thought about colour yet.

it is the tamiya PS plastic paints you use on the hard body isnt it.

 

[Old Busted Hotness]

TS- paints for the body.

I think the only Tamiya kits I've built that were screw-bag correct were the M03 Mini Cooper and the Wild Ceptor. All the rest were dump-and-hunt. Made the Knight Hauler build quite an adventure [8o|]