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Painted the covers I made. Im attaching the drive shaft tunnel with scale hardware and the transfer case cover is glued to the transmission tunnel.
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Then tackled some wiring. This is going to be the hardest part of this build, especially when I get to the engine bay. Using boxed styrene as wire chases, and two sided tape to attach to the inner quarters.
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I found some boxed styrene that fits inside the rockers as well. These have to carry the 6 led wires as well as one of the battery wires. It was a tight squeeze getting the wires fed through.
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A look at the painted fender flares.
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And the mess that is my work bench.....
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I think I will send you my MAN so you can do the wiring for me :)

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Please no! Its a nightmare!

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Looking good for a nightmare though! I dread having to start on mine.

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I exaggerate. Its just not one of the aspects of a build I enjoy all that much. The engine bay is going to be hard to conceal witing and make it look real. Not really looking forward to it. But I do have a couple ideas.

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I wasn't able to accomplish much today. But got a little bit done. Fixed something that was bugging me. Since I had the body tore down for wiring, I sprayed the front door pillars in body color. They were still in their black anodized glory, and I really felt it threw off the look whenever the doors are off or open.
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I also wasn't happy with how the b-pillars looked from the inside. Too hollow.
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So again I went to the boxed styrene to give the pillars some much needed "mass". They look somewhat structural now. Plus they serve as nice wire chases for the dome light.
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Painted them body color. I have then glued in with some e6000. Keeping them clamped till the glue sets up good.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...4ede424a5d.jpg
Got the other rear lights all ready to go as well.
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Small update. Spent a few hrs tonight working on the dome light. Made a lens from some clear styrene.
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Then I used more boxed styrene that fit snug into the top of the roll bar for a place to mount a switch and an led, as well as a wire chase.
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I slid various sizes of styrene strip into the boxed tube and glued them in to lock everything in place.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...0473f0d5be.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...914c026acb.jpg
Masked off where the lens will be.
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Painted and glued on the lens.
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Mounted into the roll bar.
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Now I'm just left with a mountain of wiring.... The plan is to conceal as much as I can between the dash and firewall.
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Some nice detail work on the dome light! ... And a cable salad that gives me an anxiety attack just looking at it :)

Once you finalise this build and take a picture of the jeep in a suitable setting it will be hard to see it is a 1:10 model!

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Yeah wiring this is pretty much a pita. I dont want the engine bay to be balls of wires and electrical components like I see on these Jeeps elswhere. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a scale engine and opening hood.

If I take a photo of this thing finished in a good setting would it look like a 1:8 model I wonder?...:cop:

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Oops ... a slip of the keyboard there ...

With you on the cable mess in the engine bay. Will be interesting to see your solution there!

One advantage of te 1:8 scale is that the receiver and ESC don't look too much out of proportion. What ESC are you using? Was thinking that one from Servonaut might be flat/small enough to disappear in the engine bay.

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Ive got a Novak Eiger that Ive had laying around unused for a few years now. Its pretty small and can handle the recommended 3s lipo with an external bec. More importantly it has zero reverse delay. No need for drag brakes. You can see it in the last pic posted.

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That Novak indeed looks small in an 1:8 scale model. Had missed it the first time I looked at the photos. As said before, will be interesting to see your solution. There is a lot going on in that motor compartment.

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Ive got it figured out in my head what I want to do. Just alot to do to make it happen now.

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Put some more time in on this. More wiring... Ugh.... Racked my brain a bit to figure out how to mount the Heyok light controller. Great controllers, but a bit hard to mount in this type of build. Heres my attempt. Started with some styrene.
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Then I made some more wire chases to feed the lighting wires up behind the dash.
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Had to cut a notch out of the bottom of the dash to receive the wire chases.
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While I was at it, I decided to change up how the dash mounts. Originally mounted with 2- m3 screws, but these are pretty much inaccessible after all the electronics are in. Seeing how the dash will need to come out in order to remove the body, due to some electronics being concealed there, and some plugs that will need to be disconnected, I swapped in some Tamiya body mounts instead. The pins can be pulled from underneath.
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It mounts up perfect, nice and tight.
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Can see the wire chases up into the dash.
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Started to wire up the front lights.
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And out of time for tonight.
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WOW :jaw:

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Hi Prop Shaft, after seeing the new RC4WD automatic transmission in another thread on here and reading the trans can become hot during use, I was wondering if you have had a chance to give your enclosed motor and trans a good run yet and does it get hot like the RC4wd one ?
Also have you got a vidoe of it in action ?

Cheers Tracy

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Lol. Thanks Steph. The wirings a real treat on this one.....

I havent driven this model at all yet. The only use the trans has seen was a few minutes of bench testing, to get the servo points set for shifting. Which I am going to have to do again as ive decided to change the motor to a 55t and I've completely changed the radio channels since intitial set up. Maybe Ill take a quick video of the shifting action when I get to this part for you.

I wasnt aware the rc4wd trans runs hot. Which one are you refering to? The CVT or the scale V8 one? Im not to concearned with his one running hot. Its got some venting in the front.

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Hands down, best build up I've seen. Nice it is a sizable kit to pack in what your up to. But one heck of a build up. Nice work.

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Wow thanks for the compliment! Im pretty proud of this one. Ive managed to turn a standard kit build into a build more labor intensive then anything I've done ever done. Lucky me! Lol. This being an 1:8 scale has made it a bit easier to hide stuff for sure. But Im still on the fence about a sound unit. It comes down to smaller battery with a sound unit or no sound unit and a big battery... Im still mulling this over, and looking for ways to maybe get both.

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Found some time to work on the wiring a bit.
Finished up the front lights. Hi/Lo beams, parking lights, and turn signals. The turn signal lights will only function as hazard lights as im not really that fond of turn signals tied to the steering.
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If anyone is wondering this is the light controller I'm using from Al. (Heyok)
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Finished up the wiring behind the dash. I hid what I could here. The only components left to hide are the rx and esc. And I have some plans to hide them in the engine bay.
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I also saw it fit to cover the back side of the dash panel with some electrical tape. The light from the led's in the dash was bleeding into the engine bay and through the vents in the cowl.
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Finally received all parts I've been waiting on, so getting back at this. I decided to try out the sound unit Capo sells for this. Standard Sense unit is all it is. After watching a couple videos of it in action, I decided to give it a try. Though in keeping with the "scale" nature of this build, it needed to be concealed in a clever way, along with the battery. Which is another feat all its own. For some reason I feel the need to stuff the largest battery possible into my builds. Its tough to hide things on this due the fact that everything is open. Engine bay, interior, trunk area etc. Here's what I have come with in an effort to keep it scale. Something along the lines of a Tuffy storage box. Heres the 1:1 inspiration.
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I started by hacking into the Sense sound unit to make it fit into my dimensions. I had to shorten it, and flip the board around so I could still have access to the buttons.
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Then I built a box around it.
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Just enough room to hold the battery and connectors. The speaker points out the side.
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Mounted to the floor with m3 bolts and nuts. The battery is held down with velcro tape, and the lid with magnets.
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Final results.
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Looks perfect.. Nice job..
Alan

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Neat solution to your problem and the finished part looks as good as your "inspiration"
The amount of extra detail you are adding to this already nice kit is incredible!

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Anxiously waiting for an update.