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M02 is easy to make longer or shorter.
In your case you only need to make some plates that is 18mm further apart on the mounting holes 
I did that with a Kamtec Capri body many moons ago..

Yeh i like that the M02 is in 3 parts, but i didn't have anything suitable on hand to extend it.  Still may do it later on. The Sprinter body is quite wide though, so it really needs a bigger chassis or rims with more offset.

There's a Mk1 Escort body shell that's a 239, so it's another option.

The Wild One is now in close to final state.





 

Back to origin for the lunchy stock wheeles and abs body. I will buy new tires for the hotweeles rims and reput them on the chassis. 

After many hours messing in the slicing program for my printer and an 8Hr print I finally have a working rear wheel with Lunchbox tyre for the Big Bear



The Bolt holes are hollow so I could put some ca head screws in there for the authentic look. 



I used a wheel adapter I found on Thingyverse to use Clod Buster wheels on the Big Bear and adapted it into the highly modified Mach5 Land Rover wheel I also found on Thingyverse.
I'm not skilled enough on Fusion 360 yet but I'm getting better slowly.  I found I could "put" parts together in my printers slicer program which resulted in merged prints just like they had been designed that way. It works for me at the moment. 



Here is the finished product on the Big Bear, I have the front wheel to try next but as its also an 8hr print I will start it in the morning. 

I'm very pleased with the result. Big Bear tyres are so hard to find. I now have to see IF I can possibly repair the crap ones I have with super glue, rubber cement and whatever I can find. 

Nice work. I will need to work out Samurai wheels. I will need to set 4 different pairs of different dimensions, and definitively, it will be the time to fully work in Fusion360 rather than Tinkercad which is easier to start with...
However, while it was the plan, I did not have a single minute to work on this due to some administrative stuff, and some printer fixing. The more and more I get fed up with my Ender 5 plus:

• filament end sensor : the blade that is supposed to push the microswitch at some point got bend and it was no longer able to sense filament presence. I did work that out, and few months later on, it is no longer able to see that filament is ended.
• I had some issues with the Bed leveling sensor. It did not worked properly anymore, and it died last Thursday. I got one new on Saturday. I placed it and discovered I needed also to change the wiring as one contact got loose, leading to issues. Fortunately, the new sensor came with a wire for it. Unfortunately, at the printer side, it did not used the same connector. Ordered the proper connectors as a consequence.
• on the next day, I replaced the connector, and I have a bed leveling sensor which works.
• but prints are not yet proper: the plastic extruder was replaced by a metal extruder recently. But the gears was inserted with a press, and it needs to be replaced. I have the replacement, but I'm not able to remove the old gear at this stage...

The more I work this printer out, the more i'm thinking to replace it by something much more reliable, with direct extruder and if possible two printing heads... So for the time being, I'm far from having the dashboard in the Wild One, because the printer is teared down to parts...

On the good side, I do not have the time to build another kit right now, which means that for 2022, I may be able to finish January with only one single build done

Didn't do a lot today, woke up late, I did however put the front BigBear wheel on to print.

Came out good, Here it is on the front with the only Lunchbox tyre I have down the house, I am about to order a new set of tyres. 

 
 

jord001 wrote:

I'm very pleased with the result. Big Bear tyres are so hard to find. I now have to see IF I can possibly repair the crap ones I have with super glue, rubber cement and whatever I can find. 

Your not wrong about those tyres, I tried to find some nearly 8 years ago when I restored one for a friend. No 3d printing for me back then so I had to get creative.

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Well, that is exactly what I was thinking about the Marui Hunter/Galaxy tires, and I got 3 sets (including a metal plated one).
 

Exactly what I have been doing Marc, I can make them as wide or tall as I want. You can get the Hunter/Galaxy wheels from Shapeways but they're not cheap.  I'm tempted to have a go at designing them in 360. I have done a rim with a 5 spoke face but couldnt do what I wanted as it was a curved surface. Did the wheel though . I don't think the slots would be too hard to replicate either for the Samurai as its a flat front face.

Have a look at these vids.