8 Car Transporter (71 Mopar’s)

[Mopar - D]

Here’s a small progress update. Added some dirt on it. 

[David G.]

It looks great Dan!

I see the hydraulics junctions there on the desk. I'm curious to see how you place and route the lines.

David G.

[Bugatti Fan]

Came upon this thread a bit late, but what a conversion !   Nice work Dan.

Plenty of Evergreen and Plastruct sheet and sections come in to their own doing this sort of modification I would imagine.

[Mopar - D]

Thanks Noel , your correct plenty of evergreen. I’ve got more coming when I get started on the Mack cab with the car rack on the top of it..

[slusher]

Fantastic work Dan!

[Mopar - D]

On 6/8/2025 at 7:28 AM, David G. said:

It looks great Dan!

I see the hydraulics junctions there on the desk. I'm curious to see how you place and route the lines.

David G.

Thanks Dave, I’ve started on the hydraulic lines with 2 of 16 to do. 

On 6/15/2025 at 4:46 PM, slusher said:

Fantastic work Dan!

Thanks Carl

[Mopar - D]

Just a small update this week not much time to work at the bench with work getting in the way. I’ve started working on the hydraulic lines with 2 of 16 done. hopefully I’ll get a few more done today. 

[David G.]

The trickiest thing I've found working with those lines is getting them to stay on the stubs. I used a tiny bit of PVA where needed but there's not really any adhesive that works well.

Best of luck with yours.

David G.

[Mopar - D]

Dave the way I’m attaching the hydraulic lines is by adding some wire into the hose and putting a 90 degree angle on it and then drilling holes in the cylinders and adding a little glue and they stay on. 

[David G.]

On 6/28/2025 at 3:30 PM, Mopar - D said:

Dave the way I’m attaching the hydraulic lines is by adding some wire into the hose and putting a 90 degree angle on it and then drilling holes in the cylinders and adding a little glue and they stay on. 

 

That's a lot of work Dan!   😮  

But it would certainly do the job, and you'd also be able to shave off all those redundant nubs on the junction boxes. Kind of a win-win.

David G.