KOMATSU KAC960E Dump Truck

[D8R]

nice drawings, looking forward seeing it being built.
Question, why this little odd location on tipping cylinders? Looks like it will be hard to get the body up last part since cylinder is working almost straight with body.
Dan

[elliot330]

Originally Posted by D8R

nice drawings, looking forward seeing it being built.
Question, why this little odd location on tipping cylinders? Looks like it will be hard to get the body up last part since cylinder is working almost straight with body.
Dan

Yes, i thought the same. Looks very good, but aren't the cylinders normally vertical on these type of dumpers?

[izzzul]

Originally Posted by elliot330

Yes, i thought the same. Looks very good, but aren't the cylinders normally vertical on these type of dumpers?

Dan and Elliot,
You both have very sharp eyes, i thought i can run away with that.

The lift hyd cylinder shud be mounted vertically the main chassis, but i have
some small problem, i need to make space for two gigantic batteries as seen below..so i tried to mount the cylinder further to the rear end. On drawing, it should work, but of course i'll loose some lift power because of odd lifting angle. See pic below for the actual ones. I'll try to mod further during the assembly, plan to hide the cylinders better.