Semi Trailer Mechanic Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 What's goin' on... By the looks of your posts you've been busy! RIght now I've got the "Builders Block"! Two projects on the bench and the CEO of the trucking company I work for wants me to build an FLD120 for him. Sometimes you (generally speaking) can sit down and there's no effort to complete a project. It's like it finishes itself. Then on the flipside you sit there and you can't seem to make any headway at all!!!
phoneguy Posted July 18, 2007 Author Posted July 18, 2007 progress made...changed air ride to spring suspension, crammed a Cummins 350 in it, added Astro fuel tanks for the longer runs. Jerry
mackinac359 Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Do you have any spoke rear wheels? Those would be perfect for the walking beam suspension! Tim progress made...changed air ride to spring suspension, crammed a Cummins 350 in it, added Astro fuel tanks for the longer runs. Jerry
phoneguy Posted July 18, 2007 Author Posted July 18, 2007 Tim, I think I have some from one of the AMT moving vans, but nothing for the front. Jerry
SpreadAxle Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 You could do spoke rears, disc fronts. I've seen quite a few trucks that way. I think the KW from the movie High Ballin is set up that way. Looks good so far.
Casey429 Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I second what FlatbedKW said, go with the spoke drives and budd fronts. There's a Superliner that runs around here that is like that, a few older R models, and a few other makes.
mackinac359 Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Yeah, spokes on the rears and disc wheels on the front. That would look very "east coast." Tim
phoneguy Posted July 21, 2007 Author Posted July 21, 2007 ok guys, you talked me into it. I put a set of spokes from the Astro kit on it. I'll post some new pics later. Jerry
phoneguy Posted July 21, 2007 Author Posted July 21, 2007 here's the pics I promised.... Just for Tim...... Jerry
mackinac359 Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Jerry The spokes look perfect ! Tim here's the pics I promised.... Just for Tim...... Jerry
Old Albion Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 Looks Good, like the blue metallic paint and wheels.
SpreadAxle Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Looks good, and as Tim said, nice East Coast look. Growing up in NYC, most of the wheels I saw were spokes.
phoneguy Posted July 28, 2007 Author Posted July 28, 2007 here ya go.. calling it done..... thanks for looking. Jerry
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