Procat

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Won myself a Procat from ebay over the weekend, fairly local so i collected earlier today. Bit of a project, will be a runner.
No doubt i will be asking for plenty of advice over the coming weeks
It appears to have a few modifications and parts swapped out for bosscat parts.
Came with a box of spares which appear to be most of the origional parts from the car.

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Started to strip it down already to inspect for any damaged parts and to see what im up against. Current electrics wont be required any more.

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Looks to have some nice homemade metal rear arms, slipper clutch and u1304z 4wd truck and saloon body mount kit.
Few very helpful guys on facebook vintage schumacher page (anyone on here?) pointed out its also got bosscat hubs, wishbones, camberlink plate. Gearbox heatsink, possibly a mms front diff and an mms rear shock tower amongst the spares.

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Coming apart nicely, only problem ive encountered so far is a snapped top deck. I was aware there had been a repair as the seller was honest about this in his listing.
So he first part on my shopping list is a new top deck. Been advised fibre lyte do a carbon fibre one, anyone here used them? They the best option?

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plenty of spares...and a bit of bedtime reading

[MattW]

Yeah, I think a few of the FB group will pop up on here. The rear shocks are bosscat works. The suspension plastics are pretty much all bosscat, the rear arms I'd guess are home made.

It is indeed a MMS front diff, and I wouldn't be surprised if you find an MMS rear diff as well (especially as there is a std one in the box!) Bosscat slipper (which a lot of people have been asking about recently) as well.

[Retro RC]

Bugger it was you who I was bidding against then lol

[Retro RC]

Originally Posted by lost?

Coming apart nicely, only problem ive encountered so far is a snapped top deck. I was aware there had been a repair as the seller was honest about this in his listing.
So he first part on my shopping list is a new top deck. Been advised fibre lyte do a carbon fibre one, anyone here used them? They the best option?

Checkout peakey's xls build, he got his chassis set through fathead on here, the top plates are the same and the main chassis is no problem as he can use my new built procat for the template if needed👍
I got a fibrolite main chassis for my bosscat works they look nice but are not made of the best carbon sheet tbh

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Originally Posted by Retro RC

Bugger it was you who I was bidding against then lol

I only bid with a few seconds to spare, bit of a last minute thing really.

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Originally Posted by MattW

Yeah, I think a few of the FB group will pop up on here. The rear shocks are bosscat works. The suspension plastics are pretty much all bosscat, the rear arms I'd guess are home made.

It is indeed a MMS front diff, and I wouldn't be surprised if you find an MMS rear diff as well (especially as there is a std one in the box!) Bosscat slipper (which a lot of people have been asking about recently) as well.

Thanks for the info

[Peakey]

I think most of the members on vintage Schumacher are in here too
The more I look at it the more I think it may of started out as a Bosscat or had a lot of Bosscat parts to start with, what rear diff is in it? That might be the give away.

Here's my Procat thread, currently a massive update is being planed but for the moment that is top secret

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthre...ghlight=Peakey

My XLS build with Damo (Fatheads) chassis set.

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthre...hlight=Revival

[fathead]

Yep I can do the carbon for you, can do any customisation on it that you want easily too

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Originally Posted by Peakey

I think most of the members on vintage Schumacher are in here too
The more I look at it the more I think it may of started out as a Bosscat or had a lot of Bosscat parts to start with, what rear diff is in it? That might be the give away.

Here's my Procat thread, currently a massive update is being planed but for the moment that is top secret

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthre...ghlight=Peakey

My XLS build with Damo (Fatheads) chassis set.

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthre...hlight=Revival

I will take it apart a later this evening and post pics of what I find. Will also message the old owner see if he had it from new/shed any light.

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Originally Posted by fathead

Yep I can do the carbon for you, can do any customisation on it that you want easily too

Great news, will message you 👍

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Just pulled apart the rear end. Any info on the diff?
At first i thought it may be standard but it appears to have metal washer carriers so maybe not?

[Peakey]

Looks like a standard drum with the alloy carriers, are the diff washers hexagonal or round and how thick are the alloy eccentrics? They look like the bosscat ones.

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Originally Posted by Peakey

Looks like a standard drum with the alloy carriers, are the diff washers hexagonal or round and how thick are the alloy eccentrics? They look like the bosscat ones.

They are hexagonal.
alloy eccentrics are 10mm overall, the mounting plate being 2mm.

[MattW]

All looks pretty std in there to me.

[Peakey]

I just thought the eccentrics were the rare bosscat ones but there not. The alloy our drives don't really come up for sale and are a lot better than the plastic ones.
Should just take a bit of a clean and you'll be up and running

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Originally Posted by MattW

All looks pretty std in there to me.

you mean std as in procat?
or its been changed to std bosscat diff?