Gary Chastain

Aligning these 3D printed fenders is proving to be a challenge due to slight warp. The axles are attached, wheels attached and aligned, rear light panel glued in place. The fenders will attach to the trailer frame (clamp locations) after epoxy sets, then I will try to align the rear of fenders to light bar with epoxy. But they are fighting me.

Found my last exhaust kit from Auslowe, they look good on the truck but I will need to make mounts off the back of the cab as the doors could not open, very limited space. While I was digging for parts, I found this headache rack (not sure where I got this), but it’s too tall, think I will try to make shorter stands to lower it.

Finally got the rear disk brakes fitted and the track width corrected. Built these fenders up for the KW925 and ended up using different fenders on that build. I think these fenders look good on the Road Boss.

Made up a set of front wheels that would clear the disk brakes. The tires are a little wider than the back. Had to dig thru my boxes of junk until I found a set of outer rings then sanded them down to .200 to narrow them up a bit and fit the tires better. these rims don’t have great detail, but using them tires come right to the edge of the fenders

Good catch, everything is in mock-up yet, so adjustments can be made. thanks

Thank you, the one thing bugging me about any sleeper on this truck, is how close the sleeper is to the rear tires and fifth wheel plate. It’s really begging for a short frame stretch.

With a couple modifications, looks like the disk brakes will work on the front as well without increasing the front axle track width. I need to find a smaller air chamber for the front by looking online at disk brake equipped trucks. Wanted to test fit all this before committing to this modification.

Fitting and doing a mock-up for the disk brakes. The disk brake kit is from Auslowe and they do fit very well, clear all the suspension, fit the axle housing well. this will alter the vision of this build, to more of an updated old truck

Glad to see it back on the bench, watching

Thanks for the pics Scott, great inspiration, not sure mine will look that good, love the light amount of weathering

This is great information guys, complete history lesson. I find it interesting how the trucking industry functions and sharing resources/ materials. In reality I believe this is still the strategy today with many brands.

I have about 6 or 8 truck kits where something went wrong or broke and I just steal parts from those boxes. Kinda makes truck parts inventory🤣😂😆

That is actually kinda cool, I had forgot he did that. Jeff suggested that the wedge brakes were not that good. Maybe an opportunity here, more research.

Ok David, is this kit? Or are you scratch building this one? Either way, wow, what a cool build.

This what you are talking about? I seen parking brake chambers, first thought was then where are the air brakes. We can see where my knowledge stops

Oh my, this kit has no brakes……anywhere on the rear axles. Non of the air brakes I have will fit. I have a full set of air disk brakes, not sure if anyone has ever upgraded a truck to disk brakes. What the heck…..why not. Kinda changes the scope of the truck but that’s ok, see where this goes or I get to add another bad idea to my growing box of bad ideas.

Well I have never gone to this extreme just to align rear axles. This poor old kit needs lotsa love to assemble it, or age has taken its toll on the parts. Now I now why it got stuck back in the box.

Well that answers alot of questions , thanks Brian. And that manufacturing process still lives today, amazing.

Thanks Jurgen

Well that’s interesting, did not know this. Is this an AMT thing or was this real life of manufactures sharing truck bodies? First cab is from the Autocar, second cab from White Road Boss, third cab from Diamond REO, all exactly the same cab.

First, get to feeling better, hope it is nothing serious. Second, I think you are posting pictures from the real truck buddy, your not fooling us. 😂🤭🤣🫣

Just a nice road truck with some simple updates

Suspension going on for the last time.

This is a really old kit that I have had for many years. Bottom right hand corner says I gave 25 bucks for the kit. I started this build several years ago and it ended up back in the box, not sure why other than….squirrel. I promised myself that this winter I would finish up three started kits, so this is number one. The instructions have turned very yellow and crunchy. I may take photos of the instructions in case they self destruct. The plastic seems to have yellowed as well or maybe it was molded in this color. Like to build this as a road truck with maybe a couple custom goodies, I have these custom wheels so they are going on, changing the sleeper. See how carried away I get.

They are pretty good and it’s my last set. With all the shipping issues, including Canada and the tariff issues, I can’t get any at the moment. I do have a couple trailer disk brake kits but know nothing about them. Didn’t have those things when I drove.