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Hey Guys
My first vintage tamiya restore. The Dirt Thrasher was given to me by an old guy that lives on my road who had seen me using my other RC's.

Hope that you guys would help out as I don't have much experience restoring vintage rc's only with rebuilding my broken modern ones.

Will update the thread with photos but sadly I forgot to take one of it before I removed the front shocks and diff.

Shouldn't this have grease or some sort of lubricant.

Yes it should. Some small amount of grease.
But it still looks ok from the picture?

Tam USA's got a manual if you'd like to have some guide lines...

www.tamiyausa.c...t-id=58160

The Dirt Thrasher's a bit rarer than the Manta Ray by the way.
My favourite DF-01 shell actually (besides the TF of course).

The dirt thrasher main body is very similar to the terra. scorcher one. my favorite ta01 off road is the terra conqueror(the light upgraded version) and for the chassis I prefer the top force naturally

Next project, restore the dt body I have since several monthes( years???)

I just need to find a new body and wing as well as a new front shock tower.

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look on ebay for the body. TBG (Team Blue Groove) makes nice repro