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Sweet looking flares HM! This truck just keeps looking better and better! :D

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The wider steer tires are called "High Flotation" tires - for severe off road work. They aren't as wide as a super single.
Tamiya's "super single" tires are not really wide enough for real super singles, but work well as high flotation tires.

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Joe that bumper came out amazing. Great job all around thus far !!!!


Alfy

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thanks guys for clarifying my thoughts .... much appreciated....

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Joe, I saw on of these on the road today and thought of you. Yours looks spot on!

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Joe , Roadranger cleared it up . Growing up , I always heard the fronts called super singles and always referred to them as such till my tire guy corrected me I still call them ss yet today ( I guess I'm indoctrinated :( ) now I would stay with the wide tire thats what's on the real one in the pic ( common for , at least around here , on a sterling dump ) . Like everyone said , you got that baby right on . : THUMBS UP : Making me think about building 1 myself :rolleyes: but a different body though .


IHSteve

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Thanks guys for the tire info and kind words. Will be going wider in the front. Next up is drop axle and dump box. Saw some good ideas on drop axle and have to decide if buying box off the shelf or building from scratch. Hmm....

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Sorry guy but the Tamiya 385/65r 22.5 tires are super singles here is a link to the real tire in that size. They also use them for on road as well.

http://kumhotire.ca/tires/details_sp...at=20&ptn=943W

The wider tires you see on the rears are wide based tires here is a link to them.

http://www.moderntiredealer.com/News...-products.aspx

Travis

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385's are the only steer tire's I've had on my dumptruck's for 16 year's.
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

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Been almost 3 weeks since I posted anything on this. Decided to work on refining these parts a bit more and run off a batch for guys that wanted some of these.

Frame around the main grill now has nice even width all the way around and I'm cutting the whole profile w/ CNC (instead of scroll saw and belt sanding) so getting real consistent fit on these.

Bumper has a bit of taper on the ends now more like the real thing.

That's about it. Freddy's getting me set up in the vendor section so for you guys that wanted these...they will be available real soon. Man, I'm ready to make something else...I'm burned out on these parts! :confused::eek::D Thanks for looking. Joe

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...inprogress.jpg

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Looks Great!! Its very scale looking!

Brian

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Boy that's some great work there a real improvement on the Tamiya front end :) so what's next maybe a proper sun visor ? thenit would be almost complete on the front end :)

Cheers Tracy

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Awesome work! The flares really complete the look of the front end.

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Thanks Brian and Mustang for the compliments!

Thanks Cossett! And hey, good call on the sun visor..had kind of overlooked that in thinking about what's next. So...kind of thinking of going with something to match a conventional factory Sterling dump like the trucks on the previous page. Or should I go with something a little more tricked out like on Brian's truck above?

Joe

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You're gonna need a more realistic looking cab to match your amazing grill, bumper, and flares!:D

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Looks fantastic.http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/s...es/popcorn.gif:D:D

Travis

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Wow, just wow!:D

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Hi Joe, as for the visor I'd go for a stock factory look but for those that like the bling bling a custom one as well ether way you wont have a problem selling them:D

Cheers Tracy

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For some reason I have missed most of this build:confused: WHAT A BUILD:eek::eek: Everything looks like the real thing! Great machine work and polishing. The dump should match a factory truck. Why waste a perfect cab with an aftermarket bed. Go for the stock look!

Lynn

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Okay, been a few months and not much done but might as well show you what I've got.

Finally stripped the paint off the cab and roughed in the fender extensions.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03865.jpg

Here's the truck I'm modeling. I noticed the cab had rear windows.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...ssterlingc.jpg

So went looking for details and inspiration on Google and found this photo.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...mb_550x410.jpg

So of course I had to designed a panel in CAD and put her on the mill. Sorry to steal your idea Pip. :o But in my defense...I had this drawn up a couple months back before Pip posted his handy work on the Aeromax/Sterling back panel.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03860.jpg

Glued in place....not bad. Excuse the mismatched wheels. We'll get some nice wheels on her someday. Need to finish the body work on the fenders and back panel too.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03877.jpg

Fabricated some parts to raise the tranny up so I could move motor forward over the servos. There's a spacer to lower the servos a quarter inch as well. Fashioned a bracket to mount the cab as well.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03867.jpg

Converted a front steering axle to a drop axle. Fashioned a yoke to straddle the frame and connect to springs with a stock shock mount. Fabricated a lever system to actuate the drop. She's pretty tough. Lifts the truck off the ground if you put a block under.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03868.jpg

Hard to see how this works and how it all goes together in the photo.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03869.jpg

Video of the drop axle test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWfoLWVskgs

Tacked a plastic fuel tank on to see how she's coming together. Not bad. Visor and dump body next...

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSC03883.jpg

Thanks for looking. Joe

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That's a BAMF!! Keep going Joe.

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Outstanding!!!!!!!!!

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Nice Job All Around


alfy

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Wow that back panel looks sweet!! You should maybe sell those!

Brian

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That panel is sweet!

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Damned CNC! You make my truck look.. *yuck*...

:) :D

Just kidding. Great job!

I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the build.

Cheers

Pip

On a side note: I noticed there are a host of different variants of these Sterling cabs.. (different headlights, grill, bumper, even that little inlet underneath the Sterling writing..).

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Yea,see how he is! Just had to keep the one better hidden for his own build!:eek: Here I thought I was getting a jump on em by tieing him up w/lots of orders.:p & the whole time he was sitting back & watching,knowing he held the ace's. Pretty slick there Joe!:DJust goes to show you,you never know when the fox is in the hen house! I LIKE IT!
Builds lookin Real good so far! Can't wait to see what comes out of the mill next.:rolleyes:
FGD ;)

Oh! I REALLY like you lift axle mechanics! Almost think I've seen one close to that set up before?:p

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freddy hows the arm this mornin

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Thanks guys for the compliments.

Pip - I, for one, was quite impressed with your hand crafted work on the Sterling back panel - as were many others. :cool:

Freddy - LOL. :D I hate to tell you...I am not that well thought out. :p But I do have a few other goodies up my sleeve (if they turn out). ;) Too bad it will probably be 2 months before I get to it. :rolleyes: Thanks for compliments on the lift axle. Only one I really looked at closely was the cam-action lift axle you did recently. (Super cool by the way! :cool: ) Send me a link to the one mine resembles so I can check it out. I tried to approach with an original design...but I guess there are only so many ways to lift an axle with a servo!

Joe

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:eek: JOE THATS AWESOME :eek::eek:

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This is a great build, worthy of 5 stars! You are a pro with the CNC mill. How awesome it is that you are able to just whip up the grill and cab panel like that! That really just takes the build to a whole new level. The one thing that really stands out to me are the rubber fender flares on front fenders. I've been looking for something like that! Where in the world did you find those? They look scale and very good on there!

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^ What he said!

This rig is looking great!

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What a cool rigid truck :D thats a great rig

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Love the cab back! Really makes me wish I had ordered one of those Sterling Grills while they were around.

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saw the photos of the sterling dump truck. love the look & finish. do you take orders. i will like to purchase the grill, dumper, cab back panel & fender flares. my email address hayden.chase@gmail.com

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thats some cool custom stuff.

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i would love to see more of this build!!!!!

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great work , looks outstanding !!!

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Dang, I was really hoping there was an update on this build, but now I see a couple members just pulled this one back to the top. Maybe Joe will get a few email notifications, and bring this thread back up to speed. Must have been some updates by now?