Chevy K30 U-haul Maxi-mover 1973-75

[Zabco]

I have lived and worked all over the country and I have never seen a U-Haul horse trailer. Any idea where those photos were taken? For the record, I absolutely hate U-Haul trailers. The wiring in them is always a complete rats nest and never works right.

[frizzen]

Zabco, i hadn't noticed them either, but i'm also not in horse country. i'll show my work
My phone won't show exif data on an image, so i don't know where it was taken. I found those trailer pics on Reddit, with a couple people saying not-fake, but old and very rarely used. Then while searching for more horse trailer info i found a total of 3 pics, all of the same trailer! (Fleet number 3666 SO 8133, which has a Georgia plate in a pic)
That Georgia farm plate is odd since almost all of Uhaul fleet is plated to Arizona

I mean is it weirder to go around taking pics of fleet vehicles to post on the internet, or weirder to paint your own outfit in a rental livery? Then several horse owner sites popped up mentioning 'renting a u-haul horse trailer' maybe it's a thing, could be the "All 'facial tissue' = Kleenex" thing, could be search engine optimization bs...

Well, i still liked the idea and thought that seemed plausible as close enough to real to make a toy fake one? So working off the rental company "seems to have run a few of those", and that the toy company "could have produced those with existing parts" was close enough for my destructive tendencies.

https://www.uhaul.com/FrequentlyAske...owing-Rentals/
Then since you asked, it looks like there are only 5 locations in California and New Mexico that have horse trailers available as of 2021?

Third pic


Don't worry instead of an inop rats nest of wiring, none these are even getting lights! Just some rhinestone reflectors.

[Blender]

Tracking down where the actual horse trailers can be rented is awesome. I expect license plate and phone number of the branch on the finished trailer.

[frizzen]

Haha, yeah Blender i spent some time on that one... i mostly hack up old toys and do weird car things to make me smile, i don't really do "exact replicas". I haven't even figured out what model each trailer is trying to replicate. If gets people to notice and smile, it's usually close enough.
I may be neurodivergent , but not quite THAT flavor.

Well, how about we fake something they DO commonly rent?


It should get the shorter Uhaul tires once the chevy is mounted up on WPLs

Trashing a Boat Trailer would probably have been the better way to go for a car-dolly since it was production, and has the baby fenders. I haven't seen any of those go cheap, and I had a frame offcut from this rc and a fire ladder truck axle

Uh, ok, but isn't there supposed to be "A Truck Build" going on?


Some carrier bearing crossmembers are printed, with bearings, some body tab clearances got hacked into frame

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadg...ong-wheelbases
These use the same bearings as the axles

[frizzen]

It was finally time to get the chassis moved off the mockup axles. Decided it needed some wpl 'potmetal' axles, and might as well get a set of brass Differentials instead of the steel Spools those come with. My thinking was that a Box truck probably needs turning radius more than 4 wheel traction or durability.

Get in the zone, Advance toy parts
Oh oh oh, oh Napa.

We didn't need liftgate service, so they were willing to send a parts-runner out to the garage.



These brass Differentials felt crunchy, so i spent a while pushing inward on axles while rotating to help wear in the gears. I plan to run them for a while, then open to clean and lube. Everything needs to come apart for threadlock once it's more final anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem.

To make up for the larger housings for spiders, these diffs come with a shorter pinion than used on wpl spools.
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I've been looking for a D-wheel dually conversion rim with the convex face.

Chevy and GMC grille
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1599115...original-style

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadg...conversion-kit

https://makerworld.com/en/models/374...42?from=search
Rally wheel center in d12 structure

https://youtu.be/l5PnA-2UCSM?feature=shared m2.5x20 hardware to stack wheels

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6174132 Squishy tire with d12 steelie profile wheel

[frizzen]

Remade more carrier bearings, stabilize filled those with jb weld.
Modified the rc-frame and toy-frame to sit better. Modified the box and rc-frame to sit better. Modified the cab front mounts.
Now i can pull the box off the truck and have a cutaway truck, so it could become a ramp-deck or something?

Yo dawg, i heard ya like driveshafts!

3 piece rear drive, plus putting in a front make this a 'K' truck instead of a 'C'.

You may have heard me say i want a lot of springs, but what i actually said is Bring Me All of Your Springs.

Bad chrome is weird on fleet truck, but thought that front end still needed some more colors

But those diff pumpkins needed WAY less red! I'm still ok with red trans and knuckles though?

So how's that ride height look compared to before YOU RUINED IT?


I've been looking for a design of a 'Budd' style D12 dually rim for 2 of the d12 rubber tires, but no luck yet. All the duals seem to be for B or C truck tires.