Wilf on MEM got a flexible pushrod to work using SolidEdge 2025. I don't think my version of Alibre has the brains, or the brawn to handle it.
Anywho...I updated the 3D model of the chassis to use the appropriate frame rail lengths, and axle spacing, for Bruder's MAN mixer. The thing's starting to look more like a truck now, I've hidden the passenger's side frame rail so things are easier to see. I've also included the motor/gearbox so I could re-design the steer axle pumpkin location.
That's done now, and we need to be
verwee-verwee quiet, because we're hunting drive shafts. However, I'm having about as much luck finding one that will work as Elmer ever did getting the wabbit. I've got a couple different flavors of SCX10/TRX4 drive shafts on order, to see which will be easier to modify to fit. It would be nice if somebody made flange mount U-joints, but I don't see that happening - and I'm not building a museum scale model.
The center axle to rear axle drive shaft is the real problem. In order to be able to install that shaft
WITHOUT removing an axle, that sucker needs to collapse down to under 39mm. It looks like I might as well be hunting for Unicorns. I'll probably just have to resign myself to the fact that shaft will need to be installed
WITH the axle.
Don