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Blizzard Truck Thing WIP; pic heavy
Topic Started: Jan 25 2015, 07:44 PM (1,694 Views)
Greyryder
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Drama seems to be subsiding around here, and I'm slowly getting back to work on this. I just made some new brake shoes out of Formica samples, as suggested by galaxiex, in an old thread. Not had a chance to actually try them, yet.
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Those Formica break shoes help, immensely. I did put in longer bolts, so I could back the inboard shoes with the factory shoes, to prevent the crazy flex I was seeing in them. I was worried it would cause the disks to cut through, and wear the shoes or disks out too fast

I built a slider bar for the back of the chassis, to prevent tearing up the body, when the truck drops off of things. I built it to extend past where the bumper will be, and kick up at the end to come up behind the bumper. That kick at the end, gives me a place to attach a couple of D-ring tabs from Mad Dog RC. To those, I bolted some King Kong mini tow shackles, from RC4WD.

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Then, I finally got the rear bumper mounted, and found out that the slider causes more problems than it solves. Not only does it make mounting the back section of the body a pain, it becomes almost impossible to remove it. And, it sits so close to the bumper, that it easily flexes up to hit it. The bar itself doesn't really have any discernible flex, but the part of the chassis it's attached to does.

So, I built a new one. It sits lower on it's brackets, which I used as an excuse to wrap part of the bracket around the bottom of the bar, for a larger, stronger join. This nearly bit me in the ass, when I brazed it together, and didn't have everything quite square on one of the brackets. (bending sheet metal without a brake is interesting) After test fitting, I gave the new slider few coats of satin black Rust-Oleum. The rear cage will be getting the same paint.

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The body is painted. I just need to make a few decals for it, then I can clear coat it, and start putting things back together.

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This was originally going to be 3-tone gray, but I didn't like the way it looked with the third, darker shade on it.

Decided to get a shot of it, as it currently sits.

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It's the current body, (wish Parma still made it) after my most recent run swampin' in the low spots in my back yard. Spring is rainy season, around here. This is after I dug all the leaves out of the undercarriage. Most of the mud is from climbing the burn pile, which is currently a mound of dirt, with twigs and branches on top. It's not a big climb, but it is an interesting challenge. (little traction on wood; slight overhang at the top; always ends up in a precarious spot, to turn for the descent....)
Edited by Greyryder, Apr 8 2015, 08:46 PM.
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Still working on this. I'm getting a lot closer to being done. Got the lights installed in the body. I painted the grill like three or four times, before I finally found a color that looked right, to me. I decided to make a different chase rack.

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I've got a long winded blog post on it, if you want more details and/or pictures.
Edited by Greyryder, May 21 2015, 07:08 PM.
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It is DONE!

I took probably too many pictures of it, on my back yard trail. Not gonna post em all, so as not to hammer people's bandwidth.

On a log over:
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Laughing at the wheel trap:
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I never imagined it, when I was building everything for that bed, but I find it oddly satisfying to load up weeds I've pulled out of the trail, and haul them off to the burn pile.
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McTrigger

Been out of the forums for the summer but it looks fantastic, although will be better with some snow under it!
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Thanks!

I thought it looked pretty good in the mud, m'self. ;)
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Edited by Greyryder, Sep 30 2015, 03:32 AM.
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I'mma just leave this here.

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Yes, I could get the blade to go higher, if I wasn't too stubborn to remove that big goofy bumper. The plow itself suffers from my not having proper metal bending tools. What little bit I was able to test it, it seems to work. Unfortunately, my speed controller just can't deliver enough power, for the servos. It kept cutting out the motor. I've got a BEC in it now, and we're supposed to have more snow coming.
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Awesome! I can't wait to see it running.
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Gazzapro

Nice project you have here. Im thinking of putting a truck body on my EV as well. Just have to get every thing together is all. I don't have money for every thing right now. We just got a new house and I have next to no tools. I like role bar you made. Looks good. I mess that kind of work.
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Gazzapro

Wow now that is a plow. I hadn't gone to the last page so now I found it. Nice work on it.
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Thanks!

Still working out some bugs, with the plow. But, it works pretty well, so far.
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