I got my 8466 2 weeks ago and After I built it I looked at it for 2 days and
realized some weak points in the wheel mounting and the front suspension was
weak. And come on where is the 4ws?
I figured someone should have done a 4ws, so I looked through the lugnet
archives and found no pics of 4ws, so I had to build it myself and I figured
it was a nice way to get used to the liftarm which I never owned until then.
I hadn`t bought anything since 1997...
So first I improved the front suspension by replacing the 7 stud liftarms by
10 stud bricks. I didn`t have any spare 9 stud liftarms then.
Then I tore the alternate body off the frame, and put it away in big pieces
to be put on when I got 4ws to work.
After an afternoon of building and then ripping the whole frame apart 7
times I had finally built a suitable rear axle. Basically it is the mirror
image of the front axle without steering wheel, engine mounts, and
suspension mounts. The gearing of the drive is pretty similar I just moved
it back to give me more room to figure out something for the steering. Since
the axles had to turn the same way I would have to drop it down using 3 8t
gears. 10 different designs later I replaced some of the solid bricks in the
transmission and replaced them with a 1x1 brick and a 1x1 brick with hole to
allow the
mounting of a 3x5 liftarm with 90 degree bend. since the liftarm was
attached to the tranny with friction pins, there was no extra friction on
any of the turning crossaxles.
So then I came to the realization I had used too many parts from the body to
put it back on. Since I needed some replacement gears and wanted some other
parts as well I decided to hop onto bricklink get some of the stuff I
already wanted plus what I needed to put the body back onto the frame.
What I also got was some 11x1 liftarms to reinforce the wheel mountings,
then I used the 9x1 liftarms left over on the front suspension instead of
the bricks.
As I was taking these pics I noticed I had forgot to put on one liftarm that
is there only for symetry and maybe a bit to protect the steering dropdown
gears ;)
In lugnet.technic, Gerard Steenbeek writes: <<snipp>> (...) been, but judging from your description it was no easy task! Well done! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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