Now we can dig in to the SSC Chassis

The SSC chassis comes mostly pre-assembled

The SSC uses a 2 piece motor mount

Now we’ll remove the center top plate

And the servo mounts

There are two spacers in each steering post. Leave the thinner spacers on the posts, but remove the thick spacers. Remember those bearings that were such a pain to get off the stock posts? Put them on over the thinner spacers

The stock steering rack slides on next, followed by the top bearings

And the thick spacers

We’ll start attaching the front gear case by throwing two screws in the rear two holes, but leave them loose for now

Work the hinge pins in, wiggling the arms as necessary to line up the holes

Once both arms are on we attach the hinge pin plate

One center screw holds it together

This next part was a little tricky. The center screw for the front bumper screws into a small metal block. The block needs to be aligned with the hole, which you can adjust with the front center hinge plate screw you just put in.

Leaving the center screw slightly loose, now we can put the front two bottom bumper screws in

We now go back and tighten the screws in the gearcase

Finally the top two front bumper screws