All the wearing currently on this dozer had been done by D9Joe Lewis. I've never ran it, just brought it home this way from the St Louis meet last Oct. D9Joe had nothing but bad luck the last day he had it in his control, kept blowing hyd lines.
I'm assuming the hyd lines are from McMaster Carr? I've never had a problem with the hyd lines I get from Germany.. perhaps a different chemical make-up than the USA manufacture?
On another note, I finally found the next dump trl I intend to make, it's a side dump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=YKirDV4pgyQ
Few of you will probably remember aaronsride from the yahoo group I started a decade ago, Aaron showed me pics of a b train similar to this he'd seen in his area (8-10yrs ago) & I never forgot how trick it was that the sidewall went up & the floor extended out.
Now if I could find PDF's with measurements of the pivot points to cut down on trial & errors.
I also found another wicked design end dump combo unit that I've never seen before (it was in the same article page), it sure is slick how it works for two end dump trls.
Might do this too a few yrs from now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=pWeKcZ2RBsc#!