Well we can take a little brake here and talk about options at this point.

Did I say these were some of the projects I had the most fun doing,along with the two 1/12 hummers I did.
Now I will say at this point if you just want to up-grade the tracks,re-do the roadwheels to make them cpmpatable to work with the tiger tracks,and replace the original gearbox with the HL gearboxes.----then try to preserve everything when taking it apart like stated above.They are a fairly good working tank at this point and 300 percent improvement over what came out of the box.I will also say that the (metal gearboxes would be better for a heavyier tank like this) but the plastic ones do also work just fine if you don't try to climb a mountain or go through two feet high grass with them.If you don't care about the way the gun elevation system works and you don't mind the stock radio,then its just a mater of redoing the track system and putting two new gearboxes in and attaching the four wires to the drive motors and clsose it up and run it. But knowing how most on here want there tanks,there is a lot more that they will want to do and this is just the start.
P.S. (NOTE) the stock battery in these tanks is a 9.6 NiCd------
(NOTE) the stock tank has all the features of a (NON-S&S HL tank-----with the exception of a controlable gun elevation motor)
Using HL transmitter and boards in the up-grade----
For the full blown HL sound and smoke system=="what you will need" (covers most of it,a few things you may not find from the parts supplier) S&S Transmitter,(two matching crystals),big and small S&S boards,a speaker,smoker unit,gun elevation motor,and this combined with everything else that has been done in the upper starting posts.
(NOTE) (NOTE)
Lets talk systems and "batterys" here.----If you are going to use just the stock transmitter,stock receiver,and up-graded HL gearboxes,then you will use the 9.6 battery that comes with the tank. (I have run my last one I did this way and the extra voltage did not seem to affect the drive motors--not yet anyway)
If you use the HL receivers then you need to use the 7.2 volt Battery----
I guess you could also use the NON S&S board and transmitter for this tank with the above Posts also if you wish,and happen to have one for this type of systems.
I did not use any of the smoker units in any of my conversions.
I think this covers a lot of it up to this point---Larry BIGMIG
