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Yes, I'm working on these for a future project, but need a pair of the new defender hubs. After a busy weekend, here is the finished video of the wildcat. As you can see I really put it through it's pases and I think it held up quite well. Funny story, after the shoot I took the model apart to clean it. While moving bricks from one bin to another a single 1x3 thin liftarm managed to end up in the nearby dishwasher, clogging the pump That was a good lesson to keep lego away from the kitchen sink

Wow, she is a beauty. You actually inspired me to try to build my own Superbike!

Very classy. i like the choice of the wheels, the 8448 ones really give it a nice customized look. Any way you could fit pneumatics to simulate hydraulic suspension?

Please point me to the post where I was rude to you or anyone else. Thank you

FYI I saw your original, unedited post and it's unacceptable.

One thing, the cross shaped axle holder is aligned with pinholes, so it should be offset by half a stud in the right. Otherwise the wheel would not fit the planetary hub.

Yup, and you have 6 holes, so you can use the 3 remainig to fill them with pins and pulley wheels. Also dont forget to put and axle 8 with stop inside the defender's rim to hold it all together even better.

I think it's stud deeper, but That's just my observation.

I think using Rims from the Defender for inside wheels would help offset the weight to the outer ones.

They could have made the outer lip part, so you could unscrew it. But it would probably be a challenge to keep it from unscrewing itself by the wheels spinning.

+1, making it a total of 5,4

The hub has no holes that can be used to inject the grease once it's closed.

I wouldn't be so negative. The new parts do have their uses for big, relastic, heavy models, they are just not capable of what we expected from them.

From what I figured out during my testing and driving, these hubs are not suitable for extremme offroading. What they are suitable for though is for vehicles where you need a good gear ratio and a nice steering pivot point and where ground clearance is not so important. For example the massive trucks @Lucio Switch builds which probably wont be taken outside through the mud and such.

After driving the Wildcat outside I noticed one of the hubs suddenly had quite a lot of friction. No amount of cleaning helped, so i decided to took it apart: The outer plastic lip seems to be welded to the hub and is holding evertyhing together. Inside there are three gears, behind each pin. You can also see some of the dirt that got inside. I do not recommend driving any of the models with these hubs over water or in dusty envoirment. Unlike any other technic mechanism, these can't be simply taken apart and cleaned. Also the grease is thick and sticky, additionally attracting dirt.

Defender is TLG at their best. 42096 is TLG at their laziest! There is no comparison.

There seems to be a large black frame just above the rearview mirror. Could be just two 5x7's though. Edit, it does appear to be a 11x7 frame or a 5x11 one.

You can find a picture with the size on the following link:https://www.lego.com/nl-nl/product/land-rover-defender-42110 So, Lego version is 43 cm long, the real deal is 170-180" (431-457cm), si ti seems the scale is about 1:10

They are already greased from the factory. But they are not water tight.

I just noticed that the rear hubs are also the steering type. This means we could mod it to have 4 wheel steering? I wonder why they used steered hubs in the rear though, maybe they wanted to keep the front and the rear axles as identical as possible?

I took the time to record the video today and it will be edited and posted very soon. One thing I leaned is that the new hubs are not really waterproof and even small amount of debrees inside them cause noticable increase in friction. I decided I will not use the new hubs in my hardcore offroaders anymore and will instead concentrate on the new defender's wheels and improved portal hubs.

Might be a bit offtopic, but the new rims from defender allow you to create a custom hubs with a deeper steering point. Depending if you use the bearing element to securely attach the wheels to the axles or not you can gain between 1-2 studs.

I think one of the U joint axle pairs is FWD going to the diff and the other U joint axle pairs is output from the rear gearbox going to the front gearbox and than off to the engine. Rear Diff -> central diff -> rear gearbox Front diff -> U joints > central diff -> rear gearbox Rear gearbox -> front gearbox -> engine Either way that's a lot of gears and transmissions! I think motorizing the set through original gearbox is out of the question, it would be simply too inefficient.

Very well done! This set quickly turned into one of my favourite sets, and IMO it might be the best "Lego supercar" to date.

I decided to UP the things with my take on the 8081 modification contest. Here's what I came up with: Driven and steered front axle with homeage to the original design Tandem live rear axles working on a simillar prnicipal as the front axle Differential lock Two speed gearbox Working steering wheel You can see a sneak peek of the progress made in LDD: