Vintage Star Wars Radio Controlled Jawa Sandcrawler Breakdown and Assembly

This video covers the breakdown and reassembly of a vintage Star Wars Sandcrawler. I do not go into details on the electronics, simply the mechanics of how to take it apart, and put it back together, including the steering and drive sections.
This video is aimed at people that are performing a restoration or repair on the Radio Controlled Jawa Sandcrawler. I cover complete disassembly of every part (again, except electronics).
This also covers installation of some Sandcrawler replacement parts available on my eBay store here:
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-Contents of video--
0:00 - Intro and Overview
1:50 - Breakdown Starts
2:40 - Battery Cover
3:20 - Top Half Disassembly (and door)
4:20 - Front Cockpit Removal
5:46 - Top Hatch Removal
6:13 - Tread Removal
8:00 - Front Steering Assembly Removal
8:44 - Rear Drive Assembly
10:35 - Wheel Removal
10:57 - Motor Gearbox
11:45 - The Screw Collection!
12:28 - Begin Reassembly
12:50 - Front and Rear Tread Comparison
13:25 - Tread Reassembly
17:11 - Top Hatch Attachment
17:42 - Cockpit Attachment and Top Half Assembly
19:29 - Door Installation
20:25 - Final Steps

[@stevestuart17]

Have you ever tried to work on the Sandcrawler electronics? I Picked on up recently that had substantial battery acid corrosion. I was able to get the motor working (only in reverse) but I can’t get the remote to change the motor direction. Any suggestions?

[@galacticcollector]

With the remotes, it's hard - the problem could be on the remote side, or it could be on the Sandcrawler side. People who know WAY more than I will tell you this is a simple RC setup - but simple for them is beyond me in this case. I'm no help here beyond the basic motor wiring, I too would love to see a nice walk through on testing and fixing the RC components on this guy. Amazon has cheap RC chips. You could plug one of those in in the meantime (they have a transmitter and receiver) to make it "workable". You wouldn't have to remove any existing parts, just disconnect a few wires.

[@GenX-RadRat]

I enjoy your videos a lot but I must say that I feel reproduction parts are bad for the vintage toy hobby, especially Kenner Star Wars. There are more than enough junk toys that can be stripped for parts (a glut, really). Repro has no soul. But, that being said, to each his own

[@galacticcollector]

I hear what you are saying, and in some cases I agree with you. When reproduction parts are almost identical to originals, it's a REAL problem. All of my parts are designed as to be obvious that they are not original parts. But, that aside - a counter argument can be made AGAINST stripping down those "junk" toys that are out there. I review eBay everyday to scrape pricing info for my website, and am disgusted at the number of sellers that strip toys down to sell for parts. In many cases, toys that are complete. It creates a vicious cycle: a toy get's stripped down, and someone buys a part of it, just to have to re-complete it. But that's capitalism. I don't consider any Kenner Star Wars toys as junk, regardless of what condition they are in, and that's why I offer repair parts as well as replacement parts. I'd rather see all of these toys be recycled (reconditioned) and remembered. But I agree with you: to each their own.