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Old 07-09-2003, 10:59 PM
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I wish my scanner was working. I would supply a couple of pics to make it easy for you. Basically, you disassemble the MW car completely. Cut the butt end off right in front of the wall between the battery and the gearbox. Leave this wall as it becomes the back of the gearbox. Clean off all of the protrutions and such until you get pretty much a small black box holding the rear axel, idler gear and it's axel, and a place to snap the Awesome moter in. Dissassemble the AwesomeRC car's rear gearbox and remove the motor then cut the gearbox off right at the beginning of the gearbox just behind the batteries. Clean this line up good and straight and then just super glue the new MW gearbox flush to the back of the Awesome RC chassis. You just glue the back wall to the cut end of the Awesome chassis with the bottoms flush. Now, just snap the motor in that's been danglin there, stick the idler and axel back in place, charge it up and you're ready to go. If you plan to use ZZ gears and axel, you will need to drill out the idler gear slightly as the MW idler shaft is slightly larger. You may have to adjust the ZZ axel width a tad too.
Oh, one more thing. You have to reverse the motor leads on the PCB. Really simple. Just desolder them and put the black one were the red one was and vice versa. Otherwise the car goes in reverse when you go forwaqrd. This is because we are removing an odd number of gear transfers when we cut off the old gearbox. This makes the motor turn in the wrong direction.
And, one more other thing. You'll have to mod your charger since the new rear end will increase your ground clearance and the car won't snap all the way down on the charging pad.
Next, I'm modding the controller. I'm moving the turbo button on to the side at the top, so I can hit it with an index finger. It's really hard to use were it is.
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