I got my new Life Like cars yesterday. Four of them. One of the four has a couple of issues. First, I noticed it was running a little sluggish and jerky. After looking at it, I noticed that one of the shoes had a concave bend to it and only the front edge was making contact with the rail. This was an easy fix and laps w/o the body went well. Then I put the body back on. This is my one Monte Carlo body. The MC has smaller wheel openings than the three Fusions. Ah Ha I said. Life Likes have independent front ends! The front wheels are a little wobbly and they rub up against the fender. I tried kind of bending them but, trying not to break them, I was unsuccessful. I might have to trim the wells. Not unless I find no other alternative! I don't know if you can remove and replace the front axles so, I'm not going to try that yet. The worst thing is, This car has the chrome wheels on it. I must save it!

First off, is the chassis the newer "T" chassis? They have independent wheels, but no straight thru axle. The older "M" chassis has straight thru axles with independent and non-independent front wheels. Changing them out is no problem. If you have the T chassis it will be hard to fix.

partspig

Yeah, it's a T. The independent front end is a cool idea but like you said, "it will be hard to fix". I'm not going to do anything rash, yet.

You might try finding a grinding stone the diameter you want the wheel wells to be and chuck it in your dremel and enlarge the wheel wells that way. If you ar carefull you can end up with a cool flare job and itis an easy fix just take out what you need.
Clyde-0-Mite

DesertSlot

I'm an old fashioned and consevative kinda Hutt. When I have a little tire rubbing to deal with, I like to fix the problem by hand not by power tools. I pick an X-Acto handle that is close to the diameter of the tire and wrap some fine grit sandpaper around it. Then I sand the wheel well a little at a time until I get the clearance I'm kooking for. I know a Dremel tool makes faster work of something like this but I use the old skool method for finer control of the operation. Just my 2 cents.

Russ the Hutt :drunk::hat::freak::dude::tongue:

I use a wooden dowel rod from the hardware store with self adhesive fine sandpaper wrapped around it.

Great ideas guys! I was thinking emery board like I used on the tires but, it is flat of course. I actually do have some sand cloth. I'll wrap it around something round and handy. My last few experiments have gone well. Hope my luck keeps up!

Well, it worked great. I really only had to take off a little bit. Now my independent fronts are free. I still have to play some more with that dang shoe though.

One thing I neglected to mention is that Life Like uses some type of goo on their body mounts. It cushions the mounting nicely and stays in place and plyable after numerous removes/replaces. Nice idea.