Rebuilding a used Mercedes 1850

[kaipi0070]

Hey guys,

well, after a long absence I want to show you my latest model.
Just for fun I bidded on a used Mercedes 1838 on EBay. Didn´t think of getting it, but.........

After a few days, I got a box. After opening I found this:








As you can see, there´s some parts missing, like the fenders and the sunshield, but the guy who sold mentioned that, so that´s ok!

Before I started to take it apart, I did a little testrun......
The gearbox sounded somehow strange, so I opened it first.
This was horrible:



All those of you that have build a Tamiya-Truck once know, what the blue stuff is....
So I took the gearbox completely apart, cleaned it and put some grease on it, now it´s fine again.

The rest of the Truck needed a close inspection after I found this. Ther guy who built this one had no clue or simply didn´t use/read/understand the construction manual!!
Most of the screws where wrong (short one needed, long ones used), etc!!

After i corrected all this, I started to put the Merc back together, giving him some new parts, like a Poison Truck Motor, new speed controller, wide rims and tires.
I decided to paint it in a dark red, the color of a local company, specialized on heavy-weight transports.
Finally it looks like this: