Lowering a Tamiya Bug

This is my way of dropping and narrowing a tamiya bug. I start by drilling through the centre of the suspension arms taking care to keep it square. I drill as deep as the bit will allow through all 4 arms. Next using my thinnest saw, I cut the arms from the centre section. I tend to do one side at a time to prevent getting the arms mixed up. Next I take some small sewing pins and put them through the holes drilled in the arms. Now we take the centre section and drill the holes again as they can blco when sawing the arms off. Now we saw off the ends of the centre section to suit however narrow you want the axle. I tend to go in to the first crossbraces as it looks a little odd just having the arms come out of the rod but nobody will see them anyway so its up to you. I have tried moving the shock mount in but it didn't work and caused a lot of fitment issues this avaoids. Anyway back to the centre section. Take your suspension arms and push thetrimmed down pins into the drilled holes and repeat for the other side. You can glue the pins but take care to not get glue on the arms or they wont move, but if you do wiggle the arms until the glue sets and you should be ok. I've done this enough now that I use a drill bit slightly smller than the pin and I get a solid press fit that doesn't need glue




I'll do a how to for the rear suspension too that gives the correct camber, when I get that far ahead. I dont have a revell bug to try this on but it also work for the hasegawa vws with a little more work