Knight Hauler Rebuild

[Jay61076]

Well after a year of it sitting on the shelf gathering dust and being overlooked I finally decided the make a start on my rebuild.

1st was to strip down the complete thing and see what mess I had to clean up

Wires for the MFU where all over the place and some of the screws had more thread lock than thread but managed to get it stripped

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Chassis rails, gearbox & frames all painted in satin finish

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Wheels, shocks & springs all highlighted

Chrome work ready for rebuild

New rear bumper for the box trailer

New front bumper Bulbar as the Tamiya one just seems to be the wrong shape :-)

[Mookysaurus]

Very good and inspirational progress you have made

Nice paint jobs too

[Jay61076]

Thanks for all the input, hoping to run the MFU cables close to one of the rails on the rig and make cut-outs in the crossbeams for the cables .

The paint on the trailer rails and chassis was nice and dry so could resist putting it together also fitted a nice new set of motorized legs.

This is a quick look at the rear with the new lowered sides to give it more of a euro look, also couldn’t stand the chrome mudguards. yet to sort lighting (lots of LED's)

The lowered side rails where going to be flat alloy plate then I noticed that I had an old florescent light cover with a ribbed surface almost the same as the trailer sides and looks more in keeping

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Started on the main truck and one thing went to another and before I knew it most was rebuilt

Hidden most of the MFU wires in heat-shrink and cut holes in the cross beams to allow the wires to be fed along one side

Cut the original plastic plate for the coupler release and mounted it on top of the servo plate just to give it some more shine, also added telescopic aerial

[Mookysaurus]

Nice, keep posting those pics!!!!!!!! coming together very nice, would love to see end product!

[Butler]

Nice truck. Dodgy rug.

[Jay61076]

After a long gap I got my Knight Hauler finished full Bearing set, MFU, 12 running led's on each side plus 12 more added to the front bumper, custom bull bar , lowered sides and rear on the trailer with custom rear bumper and 86 led's all finished in Gloss Black with orange frames, rails and running gear