Well, I kept at it and got it moving but the poor thing got hacked up way more than I wanted. I learned from the process, like you can't convert any darn thing you want you dern fool!
There is no room for a battery or RX. I thought about pulling a scrapper Nd hiding that stuff in the scrapper box, but that doesn't really fit with the sand and coal barge hauling setup I have going.
Here is the bench test video.
http://youtu.be/tNZDnqNWHHM
Jim