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Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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> Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
> > Funny you should mention that, I was at Conan's on Thursday and I
> > built a mine truck cab and chassis but didn't finish the dump body.
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> The dump body was the first thing I built :)
A good dump body is hard, it has a lot of non right angles to it. So I
skipped it. I only had 2 hours to bang this model out.
> Where'd you fit the engine? My steering mechanism and chassis are in the
> way... I am fitting in pneumatics to tilt the dump body though.
My frame is wider than yours, it is 8 studs wide in front and 6 in back
(just so I could fit a differential in... without a differential, even a
non driveshaft connected one, the truck will not steer very well, the
tires skitter). I overlapped the technic beams side to side, that's why
it's wider in front.
I also did not add a steering rack and wheel, just the control arms and
the tierod links to keep the wheels turned the same angle.
So I have more room. The engine is slung between the frame rails and has
a cutout in the "oil pan" to clear the steering linkage but most of the
linkage is behind the back of the engine (which is 10 studs long)
> > 5571 tires IMHO have a tread pattern that is a bit too "on road" for a
> > mine truck. These tires have a nice knobby pattern.
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> Well, the 5571 tires are the biggest ones I have. On the mine truck,
> they don't look as on-road as on the 5571 :)
Yes, agreed that they would not. However the tires I chose to use are
actually a bit SMALLER than 5571s which were a bit big. The large tread
pattern screams offroad to me.
.general added and followups set there, we have veered away from
datsville! :-)
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| (...) Hm, mine has quite a few right angles (the dump body is the bed of the truck, right?)--maybe mine isn't quite prototypical (I did use a reference though...) (...) even (...) I see. Mine doesn't skid for some reason. Maybe your's can turn in a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The dump body was the first thing I built :) (...) bumper (...) Where'd you fit the engine? My steering mechanism and chassis are in the way... I am fitting in pneumatics to tilt the dump body though. (...) I don't have room for a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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