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Hi all, A small up date the air hoses came in today so I can start the planing on wiring them up...
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...rhoses1001.jpg

Cheers Tracy

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Those are cool Tracy!

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Hi all, Well I got a early birthday present today from 1800-BB-TIMMY, the bull bar is great and well worth the money now I just have to put the jewelry on it and mount it....
Thanks Tim:D:D
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...B/c62ab1c2.jpghttp://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...B/53ddb1c2.jpg
Cheers Tracy:D:D

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Looks Great, Tracy,

The Old man does a pretty good job, Nice work Tim :D

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Well done, Tim!

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I think I said it a couple times now :rolleyes: Looks great , Tim does a great job on those bull bars :eek::eek:

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Hi all a small up date started the wiring of the BB what a real pain in the asssssss that was took 1 hour just to feed the wires though :D and timmy you said it couldn't be done
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...B/30e00089.jpg

Cheers Tracy

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where did you buy these from? I would like some.

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The aerial wire (Brown wire) is feed though the center left up right to the aerial mount with the other wires timmy:D do you want to borrow my contact lenses ?????????:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
When it is mounted there will be some slack in the cables to allow it to tilt FDW

Cheers Tracy

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Hey Tracy, have you considered using your "coiled airhose's" for a powered trailer?
Just a passing thought. Look's great, keep us posted!
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

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The coiled air hoses are from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/KUSTOM-RC-T...id=p4340.l2563 in the UK.

The only thing that I'm changing are the Female connectors to ones that have a threaded locking nut on the back that you can get from Jaycar over here or I think the equivalent over your way is radio shack or electrical parts shop....

The way I was going to run the hoses is keep the tamiya truck/trailer wire kit plug / leed as normal but mount the tamiya female plug in the chassis plate near the back of the cab and add two female connectors to the front of the trailer next to the male plug, mount the 3 coloured air lines afixed to the prime mover on a seperate switch/ 9 volt battery (to run a +positive / - negitive for other accessories eg : beacons ) and the 3rd coiled line will be a dumby line and repeat for extra trailers,

There are other ways you and run the air hoses but I'm doing it this way for the reason if I ever part the Truck & trailer the next owner can just hook the truck or trailer up and lights will work with out having to rewire the trailer]

If that makes any sence..

Cheers Tracy

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Thanks, I will order some wires today.

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Hi all, time for a up date finally the BB is fully wired and the spot lights are working, the aerial mounted, then the right hand battery box was swapped for another left hand one and is used for a auxiliary duracell 9 volt battery for the beacons and 2 switches in the rear tool box along with more wiring, then I had to re-build the front end replacing the shackles/ screws and front cross member and shocks (long story), mounted the BB Hooray took long enough.
Next was to swap the silver can tamiya motor for a carson truck puller motor to slow it down without putting a reduction box in her,retested everything so I can go the the next stage and that is lifting the floor about 12mm....
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/071d17cb.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/4c279583.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/e87b6602.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/4fc84f97.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/f63d3ac8.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/a6df98f1.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/040a93c1.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/8f427991.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/26b94a36.jpg
Cheers Tracy

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Truck is looking good, Tracy, coming along nicely :D

The turnbuckle ends really set off the Bull bar, gonna be a nice rig when it's finished.

Very impressive, keep the pic's coming, Mate

Paul

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Impressive lights on your bull bar there!

What did you use? 5mm leds or 1w /3w-leds?

The aerial looks a bit odd though.. What about a thinner antenna? ..out of 1mm spring steel or something similar..

Cheers

Pip

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lookin good keep up the great work

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One of the most useful parts for raising the floor comes from Jaycar Electronics!
The make nice chrome plated standoff sleeves for circuit boards, and they also do the longer 3mm screws that will be needed to secure the floor pans.
Have done it to three trucks up to now and all have come out looking good! Ask Tim!

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Hi pip, the aerial is a typical long range UHF CB Radio aerial that is common here in Aus
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/197a783a.jpg photo from http://www.itruck.com.au
Also the LED's in the spots are the fog light LED's that come with the truck..

Cheers Tracy

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Hi,

thanks for the pic. I probably didn't make myself clear.. Sorry for that...

Position and size are ok.. I just thought the antenna to be a bit thick.. looks like 3-4mm.. a 1.5mm antenna would look better. :)

...but I see you actually have your receiver's antenna wire inside the tube, so forget about my comment. Well done! :)

Cheers

Pip

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Hi all, with some help from from Tim and some head scratching and a few stuff ups with the RT mud guard and modifying a few things the back end is locked down for now until its time to paint the miscellaneous parts, the rear tow hitch is from 1800-tim (thanks mate),
"This isn't a perfect truck with nice straight panels everywhere it a honest working rig with some imperfections here and there.........."

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/7188b4be.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/c29ffead.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/aa6e9f22.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/2e5c74f1.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/6114f64c.jpg

Cheers Tracy

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Trucks looking good Tracey, i really like the bullbar and the rear fenders

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This is going to be one sharp rig when she's done. Your going about this the right way. Looks all Aussie to me! Nice job!
FGD

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OK well no one else asked so I guess I will why does the right fender say left rear and the left fender say right rear.:confused:


Travis

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Thanks guys for compliments, travis that's easy to answer when I was drilling the rear panels at 11pm they got mixed by accident and they were suppose to be on the other side but couldn't change them to the correct size as the rear brackets on ether side are drilled slightly different (read quote in post #66):D:D:D
One last thing all the pic's in that post are back to front>>>>>>>>

Cheers Tracy

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After seein your truck put through its paces on saturday the bullbar and rear guards look great and will look awsome when its finished.

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Hi all, Christmas came earl today (the post was delivered on a Saturday) and the below pic's explain the secret and the long wait.......
Thanks Danny Turner for the Great Paint Job http://modeltruckstasmania.proboards.com/

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/9a814395.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/b96772f6.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/09100214.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/1c58a66d.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/f540e898.jpg
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http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/dd73134f.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/d65f5b30.jpg
http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/4bebdee2.jpg

Cheers Tracy

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WOW:eek:......Thats cool Tracy!

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Well now that you have our attention Tracy get to putting this thing together.:p:D

Travis

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less yakking and more buildin girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well it's about time :eek::rolleyes: It was gettin hard not to say anything :rolleyes::p the cab looks great ;)

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nice work can't wait to see the truck up and runnin

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Nice build Tracy! Make me have a itch to build something similiar now! :-)
Look forward to seeing your completed build.

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Testing the lights, but still a lot to go................

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/49113c21.jpg


Cheers Tracy

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Your painter out did himself on this one!! Can't wait to see it completed:D Great job by you and Tim, too.

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Cossett, the lights you bought are by far the best I have seen. They appear to be SMD leds. Would you know if this was true? Thanks, Joe

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Thanks for the comments guy's :D:D
Joe yes the leds are SMD.....

Cheers Tracy

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lookin good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!