PierreR89 Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 Made the last things on this today so its done. There is some fitment problems between the hood and cab so the hood will not close properly. I think that one of the pieces that makes up the hood is warped due to its age and i did not notice it untill everything was painted and i was going to mount it on the frame.
Scalper Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 cool build.. you don't see these on the road anymore.
Model Truck Shop Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, PierreR89 said: There is some fitment problems between the hood and cab so the hood will not close properly. I think that one of the pieces that makes up the hood is warped due to its age and i did not notice it untill everything was painted and i was going to mount it on the frame. It looks like your front cab mount is too low. If you can carefully dis-assemble the cab from the frame you should be able to re-align the cab to fit the hood. Let the hood determine the cab location, not the other way around. You might need a spacer or a shim between the cab floor and the frame rail mount.
PierreR89 Posted August 28, 2018 Author Posted August 28, 2018 Could be, but those front mounts are molded in to the framerails and if i had lowered the interior there would be a big gap above the instrumentpanel that also would be seen from inside the enginebay. It could possibly also be the rear cab support that is to long and makes everything tilt forward because it looks worse in the pic,s then it is. But i will give it a try when my shoulder wants to cooperate more with me then it does right now...
Model Truck Shop Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 17 minutes ago, PierreR89 said: Could be, but those front mounts are molded in to the framerails and if i had lowered the interior there would be a big gap above the instrumentpanel that also would be seen from inside the enginebay. It could possibly also be the rear cab support that is to long and makes everything tilt forward because it looks worse in the pic,s then it is. But i will give it a try when my shoulder wants to cooperate more with me then it does right now... There is a spacer that glues to the underside of the floor, part #148, then the floor glues to the frame rail mounts after the interior is glued into the cab. The spacer raises the front of the floor up off the frame mounts. Your either missing the spacer or you need to shim the floor up some more.
PierreR89 Posted August 28, 2018 Author Posted August 28, 2018 I looked around a little, there are no (unintended) left over parts and part 148 in this kit is for one of the rear trackbars to the driveaxle. However in the ford aeromax kit the spacer you are talking about is included. A little odd that both Revell and Italeri (this is from Italeri) dont mention anything about that in the LTL9000 kits as all of them have the same cab and all of them would probably tilt like this without it. But its no big deal to make one my self and the cab should come of with a little carefull bending.
Model Truck Shop Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 Apparently I was looking at the Aeromax 120 instructions for the RoG kit... Hopefully it all works out for you.
PierreR89 Posted September 2, 2018 Author Posted September 2, 2018 Thanks. I bought it just because of the wolf decals and that it was a Ford because i wanted something different.
kilrathy10 Posted September 2, 2018 Posted September 2, 2018 Great job, Buddy...I like the color...This would look good in front of a Moebius 53' trailer....
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