Heavy Haul Cascadia with 6 speed transmission

[Tagaxle]

Here is my new heavy haul cascadia that I recently finished. We have done several mods to the stock tractor. First of all, the frame was extended to accommodate for the tag axle. The tag is made from a front axle and is liftable with a retract servo. The truck also has a 6 speed transmission. This is achieved by putting a two speed "high low" transmission inline behind the stock transmission. The two speed tranny is from an old king hauler. We decided to go with the 1:1 and 1:4(first and third gear). Second gear gave us overlapping gear ratios. I am running 3 - 2s 4000mah packs in parallel in the sleeper for a total of 12,000 mah. Te trailer is custom made from 1/4 " steel square stock. The gooseneck is removable with functional catch and locking plate system. It uses a waking beam suspension. The tractor has rails for the lowboy to ride on when lifting the trailer off of the ground.

[Tagaxle]

Some pictures

[thebigo]

Very nice truck, the truck must pick up alot of speed with that 6 speed tranny.

[Tagaxle]

Can anyone else see the pictures? I uploaded about 5, they are resized to meet the requirements and are .jpg. Any ideas?

[spudd]

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[Tagaxle]

Very nice truck, the truck must pick up alot of speed with that 6 speed tranny.

Thanks thebigo, the truck in 1,2, and 3 high is the normal speed. When in 1,2 and 3 low, the gear ratio is much lower, allowing for scale driving, for example indoors.

[cabs]

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[Tagaxle]

only one use photobucket

all of the pictures were uploaded the same way

[Tagaxle]

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[BRICKNICK]

I can't see any of the pics

[Tagaxle]

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[spudd]

Nice build.

[thebigo]

Nice lowboy, I really like the hookup, did you build as a kit or from scratch? I need a truck and lowboy but want more of a off road truck. THought about the cross-rc truck with a dolly and a lowboy behind?

[Tagaxle]

Nice lowboy, I really like the hookup, did you build as a kit or from scratch? I need a truck and lowboy but want more of a off road truck. THought about the cross-rc truck with a dolly and a lowboy behind?

The trailer is a scratch build

[flatdeck]

Very nice build....

[kevmeister]

would you have some close-up pictures of the trailer? that looks like a tandem version of an aspen lowbed I used to pull many years ago. I'd like to be able to make a tridem version of the same trailer. the trailer had a break-neck and beaver-tail assembly, just like yours.

:)

[nenard]

Im liking those Cascadias more and more. Your version is lookin good.

[bigford]

cool build!! everything looks better pulling a lowboy

[MACK Daddy]

That red looks great on the cascadia

Nice setup

Alfy

[cabs]

cool build!! everything looks better pulling a lowboy

I agree, gotta get one this winter. Still saving for the pmd

[PaulNZ]

Nice Build, Cascadia is the type of truck normally seen pulling a box, reefer or tank, the low bed looks good behind it, I think the lazy pusher axle gives it a tougher stance!

[Tagaxle]

would you have some close-up pictures of the trailer? that looks like a tandem version of an aspen lowbed I used to pull many years ago. I'd like to be able to make a tridem version of the same trailer. the trailer had a break-neck and beaver-tail assembly, just like yours.

:)

Sorry for the delay.

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[Stuff]

very cool!

[Snowman3725]

Could you take some pics of the tranny set up? I'd like to try something like that. Very good idea!

[Chi-Noos]

Wow not bad, somewhere along the lines of my build but I'm going for the day cab tri-drive cascadia and plan on building a completely custom low boy.

[Tagaxle]

Hi Snowman3725, sorry for the delay. I just stacked the tranny's inline and connected them with a short drive shaft. The Hi Low tranny was modified to the servo could be located behind the whole setup. The Hi Low tranny was also mounted inverted so the output shaft of the first tranny would line up with the second.

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[BRICKNICK]

She looks great. Is there any way of getting some pics of the transmission? Now when you say you took a two speed trans out of an original king hauler, I wasn't aware the king hauler ever came with a different trans in earlier versions.

[Tagaxle]

I used the original three speed kind hauler tranny for the Hi Low. I had originally wanted a 9 speed (3 and 3) but second gear on the second tranny would overlap speeds with first and third gear. Instead, we removed second gear, allowing for the second tranny to only have first and third gear.