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Please someone tell me, or link me to HOW TO FIT my land rover shell on my Stock TLT chassis plates.

I swear I will kill the car if I dont get help!

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Can you post some photos, so we can see what you have there, to work from?.

My 1st TLT build used the stock chassis. I basically made new suspension links from m3 all-thread, with brass tube from a hobby shop over, and mounted the shocks from the ends of the chassis to the back of the axle housings. I used the standard bodymounts for the front, and screwed nylon generic fit posts to the side of the chassis at the back, to fit a Landcruiser body. The hard part is to find dogbones the right length, which you need to use with the stock gearbox.

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Hey, I realised my little TLT from 4 years ago looks familiar.... Don't know where?...

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Thinking of the top of my head you will probably be best to mount the Body mounts out of the side plates horizontally.

Here's a couple of pics from Twinsets Showroom always good for inspiration.

and here's a link bound to be some more ideas in there.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/member.asp?id=169

The first pic is of the mounts and the second shows the mounts coming out of the side of the shell

this is how i would do it.

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Before you say that's not my chassis the principal would be exactly the same :-)

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Thinking of the top of my head you will probably be best to mount the Body mounts out of the side plates horizontally.

Here's a couple of pics from Twinsets Showroom always good for inspiration.

and here's a link bound to be some more ideas in there.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/member.asp?id=169

The first pic is of the mounts and the second shows the mounts coming out of the side of the shell

this is how i would do it.

pic1.JPG

pic2.jpg

Before you say that's not my chassis the principal would be exactly the same :-)

where do i get posts like that? stright ones.

i just cut myself to shreds using a drill bit, so please dont say, make them.

BMT check my TLT a newby build thread here to see my crawler...

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I used longer body mounts adapted from a TT01 (they were 50p from ebay!) on mine

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duratrax is the popular post, others like parma and proline make posts too.

2.5 inch http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...LXD244&P=ML

4 inch http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...=LXD242&P=7

1.5 may be the shortest http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...=LXD243&P=7

all sizes in 1/2 inch increments to 6 I believe is the longest

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duratrax is the popular post, others like parma and proline make posts too.

2.5 inch http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...LXD244&P=ML

4 inch http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...=LXD242&P=7

1.5 may be the shortest http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti00...=LXD243&P=7

all sizes in 1/2 inch increments to 6 I believe is the longest

thanx bill ill look into that.

@Ryan: how did you mount those, have you got pics?

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thanx bill ill look into that.

@Ryan: how did you mount those, have you got pics?

Nope, as I scrapped them and now use the TLT ones cos Im using a different body that doesnt need longer ones. All I did was cut the bend off the bottom, enlarged one of the holes and put a bolt thru it.

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Nope, as I scrapped them and now use the TLT ones cos Im using a different body that doesnt need longer ones. All I did was cut the bend off the bottom, enlarged one of the holes and put a bolt thru it.

thanx ryan, will try that. now please answer the question in my build thread on the sliders.!

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