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Kansas Large Car

I have been looking at this forum for a long time and finally decided to build a truck for myself. I started this at the beginning of the summer. hope you like it.

Started with a Grand Hauler, moved the front axle ahead then repositioned the stock fenders. Alum. bumper and air cleaners looked better than stock.

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While on vacation I painted the cab and rear fenders. I used DuPont Croma Base paint with 7500s Croma-clear.

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I mounted PMD head lights and dropped the steps and air tanks down so I could mount lights below the door. I made the panels for below the cab and sleeper out of alum. angle with a bunch of PMD led's.

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I mounted 22 led's in the bumper with 2 extra red ones on the back side to shine on the front tires.
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Last thing so far is the 10 Radio Shack led's in the back of the sleeper. Still need to get the lights on the air cleaners and the head lights working then hopefully I will have as much fun playing with it as I have building it.

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/t...psuwynu5id.jpg

Thanks for looking, Mike

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Great work! Love the paint! Cant wait to see it all lit up!

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Nice truck Mike, the paint job is great!

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OUTSTANDING GRAND HAULER BUILD!! the paint job design is perfect and I really like the way you wired your LED light! good idea!

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this is going to be a sweet truck, nice job.

cheers andy

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awesome build, love the paint job!

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for some reason i think this will be a build to follow..... great work

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Very Nice Build, and great to have another member in Kansas, and not to far away!

Chris

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very nice looking truck so far can't wait to see it all lit up paint job is amazing.

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Very tidy, keep up the good work...

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Originally Posted by up9018 (Post 132319)

Very Nice Build, and great to have another member in Kansas, and not to far away!

Chris

It's a small world isn't it? Your just a little ways away and I have a brother that builds trailers at Landoll.

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Thanks for all of the great comments.

I've been working on wiring until I'm about cross eyed!
I've got the cab lights, and the head lights done. Also one air cleaner, they are a real pain. I had to grind a spot for the wires and sand the lip off of the leds so it all would fit together.

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Enjoy, Mike

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wow very nice build of the grand hauler..great job:)

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are those head light from pmd? i thinking of getting a set
instead of the stock 379 lights. wireing the high/low and blinker
for both sides was rough enough

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Originally Posted by bigford (Post 132521)

are those head light from pmd? i thinking of getting a set
instead of the stock 379 lights. wireing the high/low and blinker
for both sides was rough enough

Yes that is where I got them. I used the lights that came with the mfu and glued the lenses in with clear silicon.

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Originally Posted by mike71 (Post 132478)

It's a small world isn't it? Your just a little ways away and I have a brother that builds trailers at Landoll.

That's funny, I'm one of the Forklift Engineers at Landoll.

BTW, if you are interested, we usually do a day run down at Newton in April, would love to have some more trucks there.

Chris

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Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, yeah I'm planning on going got my truck done getting ready to start on a trailer.

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the grand hauler is look great man question what did you do for all those lights under the cab doors an sleeper

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Originally Posted by thebat (Post 134387)

the grand hauler is look great man question what did you do for all those lights under the cab doors an sleeper

First off I had to lower the steps with longer screws and some spacers out of an old k'nex set. Then made plastic spacers that were screwed to the floor of the cab and sleeper. I made the light bars out of 1/2 inch alum. angle with 1/8 inch holes drilled for the 3mm LEDs. I wired the LEDs in series of 4 and hooked them to a battle switch that is mounted in the passenger step. Then I screwed them to the plastic spacers. Also had to relocate the antenna inside the sleeper because the spacers covered up the hole.

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intresting may do that to a future build im waiting to get my og king back form a good friend who is rebuilding it an im between a gh an a knight hauler as the next project thansk again keep up the good work. what trailer ya gonna haul behind this rig.

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Originally Posted by thebat (Post 134395)

My vote is for the grand hauler. As far as what trailer I don't know yet I started gathering stuff for an air ride spread running gear. I could put a lot of lights on a reefer but then again hauling stuff on a flatbed would be fun too

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Your grand looks awesome! I'm just curious whats the purpose of moving the front axle forward? thanks

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thanks hmm i think i would go with the reefer a stainless reefer all polished up would look good behind your gh just my 0.02 cents worth.

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Nice job, love the paint scheme & light set up

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Originally Posted by Scott M (Post 134442)

Your grand looks awesome! I'm just curious whats the purpose of moving the front axle forward? thanks

There really is no purpose other than I think it looks better. The stock truck kinda looks like it has a set back axle which I never cared for.

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I've been trying to get a trailer put together and wanted to show everybody. I am starting with a flat bed as a donor. Then I had the guys at work shear me up some aluminum, 1/8 inch for the top and bottom and 20ga pre-painted white for the sides. I also got 8 of the little round magnet cups to use for my "air bags". Angle, channel, springs, and 6-32 machine screws all came from the hardware store.

First some mock-up pics to show what I'm going for.
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Here is all my pieces parts.

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This is the front.
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Here is the back with the D.O.T. bumper.
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That's what I've got so far. I'm planning on getting some stainless for the front and the doors. I also was going to use black balloons to cover the springs so they look like air bags.

Thanks, Mike

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Hey very nice work on the hard built air ride way to think outside the box!

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Looking pretty good!!

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that looks awesome an good idea on the air ride keep up the good work.

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Looks awesome, keep it up.

Chris

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thats gonna be a bad *** ride when it's finished :jaw:
like the air-ride set up you made!

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Awesome looking truck! Love the colors.:jaw:

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Nice work on the truck and trailer. Looks great all lit up...:bounce:

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Nice work Mike. If I ever get mine back together and it quits raining we will need to find a place to run them.

Chris

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Originally Posted by up9018 (Post 144355)

Nice work Mike. If I ever get mine back together and it quits raining we will need to find a place to run them.

Chris

Sounds like a great idea. I'd like to see your truck in person, Let me know.

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