Tarmo3 Humvee body and upgrades

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I thought a Humvee body would look good on the awesome Tarmo3 RC car. So I took that 1/72 version here from Thingiverse, hollowed it and mounted it on the Tarmo. The body prints in three parts which have pegs and holes for easy alignment. I taped the parts together and just glued them with CA (less is more). You can either use the Vertical Servo Mount Kit (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3633225) or cut out a bit from the body as I did to make room for the stock-mounted servo. The body mounts are a direct fit to the stock shock mounts if you drill two holes for M3 screws in each of them. Or you print the included shock mounts with the corresponding holes. A 5mm drill bit is needed to drill the holes for the body mount posts. In front, they sit in the middle of the grill on the hood. I used a drop of paint on the rear posts to transfer markings on the body. They should sit exactly on the two long groves on the tail hatch. Just file the holes until everything fits. The chassis retaining clips are bent from paper clips. Since I didn't find a good place on the chassis to mount the antenna and the ESC switch, I designed a mounting base that will accommodate both of them. The steering linkages were a bit too long on my build so that the front wheels were too much toe-in for my liking. The included linkages are shortened by 1mm. The main steering arm was binding on the bottom and also interfering with the upper control arm. Therefore I removed 1,5mm from the bottom of the arm, made a countersunk hole for the screw that goes into the support piece and chamfered the top front edge to clear the control arm.

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