Gary Chastain

Looking good, tells a great story

I have seen them a eBay from time to time, don’t know the printer.

It can be stressful in the US as well. Everyone in the sales process wants their cut of your money. Good luck.

Great explanation, I have used 1:24 on a 1:25 build as the lift axle is labeled 1:24 that I am using on this build. I also have noticed that advertised scale is not also correct either. Thanks for jumping in the post. It’s always good to get input from builders who are very experienced.

Very well done, nice work.

Quick mock-up after suspension dries.

No, we go online shopping to find what we want and hope it fits/works, then wait many days for delivery. Oh we spend too much money on this stuff we gotta have. And we buy extra because we might need it on another build. You just sit down and make what you want.

That really looks right

Love the creativity, that will look awesome

Adding third lift axle with locating fixture. Will use slow dry epoxy to attach frame stands so I dial in the location. I drilled and pinned the arms so I can rotate the axle , may build this with axle posed in the up position

The KW eight bag air suspension is on with a few details to finish. Installing this suspension without all the locating tabs from the original frame creates some concerns, is it square and are the axles spaced correctly. Couple years ago I made a fixture to help overcome those issues. I can use the fixture for a two axle or three axle setup. found a steerable front axle in my parts, that will built next, then third air lift axle.

I am speechless, I am so glad to be in this group. Brian, thank you very much for the offer. So many people in this group have offered to help with this silly idea of a build from printing parts, sending parts to just bouncing ideas around. Thank you, I thought I was just kinda out of luck so I marched on with the eight bag KW air suspension. Post up progress in a while.

Agreed, probably no issues

Agreed, most hot rods from my youth were built from whatever you could find/ accumulate. This is my idea of a Resto Rod, a 1:1 truck I built in 92 and 93. this is a 1960 Chevy pickup, all I got from the seller was the sheet metal and frame ( unfinished project that I bought for 200 bucks) Engine is a 402 big block from a camper special Chevy truck) Turbo 400 short shaft from a pile of transmissions, rear axle from a 70s Transam with 4:10 gears and posit track, front suspension from a 72 Chevy half ton truck, redrilled rotors, driveshaft from an Elcamino, steering column from a GM car, wheels from a Corvette (rear) and from a Mote Carlo (front) and so on. I retained the mostly original body just updating the running gear

Checked again at ST , only in 1:24 scale ( although May work as I have mixed these scales before) but sold out. Checked a couple other sites and no go, looks like an opportunity for a printer person.

Thanks Jürgen, that’s the problem with being retired, I have too much time to think about really cool builds and then…….squirrel….started another build. Need to stop and finish some, got three going now.

Going to go look again at what’s in stock.

Agree with you Hakan, but I spent a whole evening trying to find something in 1:25 scale air ride and could not find anything. I did order an air glide from a 3d printer but can’t get confirmation of the order or delivery date. I will check ST again in case something just came in. Even thought about hacking apart a 900 KW which I may still do (parts molded to frame). Just happened to run across that Cabover KW for cheap and I thought, well that will work. So for the moment it’s still up in the air.

Really nice work, great detail as usual

Frame stretched, removing all the locating tabs for stuff that I will not be using and clean up.

Well done sir

Maybe going off the deep end on this build. Went to Hobby Lobby today and picked up the Malone KW Aerodyne (40% off as a donor kit), it has a good air ride suspension that I could use. a mock-up as a three axle heavy hauler (maybe) with air lift third axle still working out engine but looking at the V-12 from the Malone KW drag truck, not sure if it will fit under the hood, but starting there. If not , of to a straight six. And yes, I am working on two builds at the same time…….. squirrel

Outstanding build, curious to your next build.

Thanks guys, it is very repairable, repaint the one side of the hood and repaint the fender, not really a big deal I guess. I just hate a redo because of operator error

That’s impressive