fitting Mato all metal Tiger Road wheels and axles

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fitting Mato all metal Tiger Road wheels and axles

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Anybody have any experience of building an all metal Mato Tiger, i have hit a problem with the road wheel axles the ones in the kit are unthreaded but have a allen key head on them as if they were threaded, are these a press fit , if so, they are very stiff and dont seem long enough to go through suspension arm and into the grove or guide in the lower hull Any help would be helpful
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Check that the metal.wheels and axles use the same suspension arms. I know that some metal conversions require different arms, not sure about your set. Sorry can't help more.

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Its very much the same as the Heng long set up
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Re: fitting Mato all metal Tiger Road wheels and axles

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Ahhhh..........they seem to be ones that go into taigen style suspension arms.
If your arms are metal but do not have a grub screw to tighten the axles to, replace those plain ended screws with threaded ones, say the standard H/L ones, and my bet is they will go in.
Would be helpful to you if you could put up a picture or two of the issue.
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Re: fitting Mato all metal Tiger Road wheels and axles

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cheers herman , im new to this site ,just trying to work out how to put photos up,
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