A couple of parts finally arrived(1 Month shipping... By Air Freight)..
- 1 vertical exhaust
- 1 fuel tank - with mounting kit for servos - I will move the diff lock servo from between the frame rails
- 1 set of spring hangars/bolster(not sure what the correct term is) - to correct the tail high attitude
- battery box and air tanks
- smaller rotary beacons - to replace the oversize ones
The New exhaust is temporarily mounted - I need to work on the way it is sitting..
New spring hangars/bolster(not sure what the correct term is) also mounted... This took 5hrs to get the initial mounting done...
It now looks like:
Instead of:
For comparison here are the sping hangars:
Due to the offset difference the springs sit on the very outer of the plate on the diffs:
Thankfully I have the track extensions on so the wheels clear everything...
Just need to trim off some of the euro style mud guards to clear them.
Also the upper control arms were mounted on the hangars, for the osswald setup... These had to be moved to the chassis as the scale art hangars didn't have the mounts, and the mount point would have been too low...
Finally the lower control arms on the diffs needed to be swapped around to prevent the ball joints hitting the diff, as the new hangars have the center points higher up(I don't currently have a shot of this).
So on this truck I still have to mount the fuel tank, battery box, and potentially spare tire... Correct the exhaust, mud flaps and the rear cross member. Finally switch over the rotary beacons. This hopefully will be done over the next couple of weeks.
Hopefully the above is interesting...
Cheers,
AP