Old Albion

Mark, Welcome! The truck looks great and the weathering is perfect. Nice work!

What a superb project, excellent work!

Chris, You can do what ever you want!! It's your build. The battery box step was typically installed under the drivers side cab door. If a luberfiner was fitted it may well have been installed between the battery box and the cab extension skirt. If this is the case the battery box would have been mounted as far back as practically possible without fouling on the exhaust. There were of course other places to install the luberfiner. Have a good look through Hanks truck pictures and Tim's web site to get some ideas. Hope this helps.

The units behind the cab are either, both Luberfiners or ones a luberfiner and the other a power steering reservoir.

These are superb! Excellent work.

Tim, it's interesting to read what you say about the problems of fitting the bigger engines. Whilst working on the build I often wondered what the engineers and designers thought and did to overcome the problems. And yes I can see why they developed the H model. That 4" (4mm to us in 1/25 scale) would have made all the difference. It's interesting to note that the 1693TA was a taller engine than the Cummins KTA series. Cummins put the turbochargers on the side where as Clatterpillar fitted them up on top. This is probably due to the fact that they were developed for earthmover equipment. Still I would have thought that the engine envelope was to an SAE standard of some sort. But maybe not. It's all history now but good fun.

Charles, Getting the engine to fit was a pain! As far as modifications to the frame these basically are the removal of the front engine crossmember and the crossmember that supports the radiator. The new crossmember with the engine kit will fit in place of these two. There are two pads on the crossmember that the front engine mounts fit on. These pads will need to be removed. It's important to get the engine as low as practically possible in the frame. Also the two front engine mounts were removed and ones that were twice as long made and installed. This pushes the engine further back to allow forthe bigger radiator. When assembling the engine turbocharger it's important to shave of as much material as possible from the exhaust manifold to reduce the overall height when the turbo is fitted. Get it as close as possible to the manifold without touching. You will see from the photo's that the inlet pipe on the turbocharger has also been reduced in length. This is to allow for the inlet elbow to conect to the air cleaner. Watch this because it will foul with the dog house. As far as the dog house is concerned. It will most probably need to be eased or relieved a little. Your problems will be with the turbocharger and the air inlet pipe from the air cleaner. On mine I assembled the tub main structural components, then gently heated the tub in the area of the turbo and gradually eased it out. So that there was a small deflection big enough to accomodate for the turbo. WIth regards other modifications the height of the gear change lever bracket is too high and needs to be lowered otherwise it will interfere with the cab when fitted. (Have a read look through some of Tim's Pacemaker builds, there are some usefull tips when building.) Hope this helps.

Great looking rig! Nice weathering.

Wow!! That is a beast. Great work.

That looks great! those seminole stripes always looked good on a KW.

Superb build! The weathering is exceptional.

Very nice indeed! The livestock trailer goes well with the Western Star.

This is an excellent truck. Like everyone else as soon as a saw it I thought Canadian!

An excellent project. I really like it.

Excellent! I like all the details and the opening doors. Nice touch.

Superb Scratch building skills! this will be great when its done.

Nice work on the cab! That looks really good.

Nice progress! Those wheels look great.

Ok a little update. Appologies for the delay!! I have made some good progress, but due to the cold weather I can not do any painting (I like to spray in my little shed outside) So I have gone as far as I can for the moment. The Wilson livestock trailer will be matched with the truck. That too is now awaiting paint. Thanks for looking! http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki

Jim, I have all the photo's. Send me a PM with your E-mail address and I will send them to you. Interestingly this truck has a triple frame!

Jim, I remember when this truck came up for sale on Ebay a while ago now. I saved all the photo's for a future build. It's a 1955 Peterbilt 381. According to the build sheet it has Vickers power steering,so I assume that the bar under the frame is the hydraulic ram to actuate the steering. Hope this helps

Very Nice indeed!! I like the colours. Reminds me of the Golden Nugget scheme.

Jim, This is looking very good indeed! The colour is a perfect match, although with all the dirt on the original vehicles it's difficult to determine the correct colour. I may have a go at the Duel truck and trailer some time in the future. This build will be an invaluable reference. Many Thanks for taking the tame to post details and sharing this superb build with us.

Superb Looking truck! I like it a lot.

The details on this build are excellent! Great work!!