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http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psp77o7r8p.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psug47bgee.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psfyc9fdrx.jpg Just in case I can't get bed up I made the dump cab cover removable. It's snug and might have to modify or remove paint if the paint layer makes it too tight. Originally I was planing on just having magnets but as I bent the metal it was perfect snug fit. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psct7dfhjf.jpg And going with this style stack and location. |
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Problem I encountered with locking axles. At the end of the Allen tool you can see some slight scuffs, that is where the locker arm make contact with hoist .
http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psfeykwvuf.jpg After taking them apart and understanding how the little dog works to lock I may have to machine a new part or find someway to relocate. It will work the correct rotation if I were to have the arm on the bottom side of axle. But that may not be a great idea as any rocks or dirt could damage it. Have to play with it some more. Or would it be fine to have that (first drive axle) permanently locked? Would that mess up with turning ? http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6nhczsta.jpg |
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Your truck is coming along nicely! Chaseracer's Autocar has both axles locked all the time and it steers fine on dirt while carrying a load. Jason noticed it plowing the front tires once he had the pup loaded up though. All I can say from personal experience is that without at least one of the axles locked all the time they get stuck on everything while running empty!
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Well that is assuring, I think I will lock the first drive axle then. This is going to be run in dirt most of the time.
My welding skills are improving, brazing on the other hand,,, well need more time!! After looking around at all the different dump trucks if came to the conclusion that any thing is a go. Many different types, styles, functions so I built a small side box to resemble a fuel tank. This is going to hide the hydro pump. I'm going to make one for other side that will have a small oil tank inside with fittings hidden. Can't really see it but I put an x bend in side, light from camera hid the pattern. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pslaeilgrr.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psr49ic7kt.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5rs9eano.jpg |
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Lookin good!:)
You're right about the many different styles, shapes and sizes. Impossible to build one wrong! The more I look on the net for a certain style, the more I realize that very few are the same in every way even when they come from the same manufacturer. Keep the updates coming! |
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What kind of tire glue can I use? Plastic on back wheels and steel/aluminum? On front wheels.?
Working on second tank today. Wanted to play outside but windy and chilly. Plus wife took dogs so I've got house to myself-have to enjoy things when the pitas aren't here!! (Pain-in-the-a$$'es) lol!! |
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Why glue? How about ruffin up the bead groove on the rim instead? I have yet to glue any tires on any of my trucks.
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I have a set of super singles that some one glued and thought I could change wheels, not happening! I would not glue them if you even think you'll want to swap wheels or tires.
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I just assumed they needed glued. Thanks for keeping me from the glue. Yes with other faster race trucks I always glued tires and just figured once they were glued they were married for life. :). Do you guys run foam in front tires? Reason I ask was this being a load hauler figured they would roll of bead fairly easily. First timer here:) limited brain cells!! The alcohol killed off all the weak ones and only healthy strong ones left, just not many ;).
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Air rifle BB's work best, not only do you get a stiffer sidewall so you don't peel the steer tires off turning when loaded, but also the added weight when empty helps the trk get around much better. The BB's in your rear tires will help lock your tires to the rims so the rim doesn't slip in the tire, get 'em packed in as tight as you can! ;)
I've found that locking the rearmost diff in a 6x4 works best so it doesn't impede on steering too much. |
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Thanks , I've done that with rock crawler, and happen to have a large bag of leftover bb's to use.
http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8vh296ou.jpg got a new pump, will hide in tank. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pshwihpim7.jpg I was going to use the steel tank for the actual hydro tank but my solder skills are slightly better than my welding skills. To make a sealed tank. The small fitting on top is a breather vent. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psgmqsugzr.jpg |
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Is that the RC4WD pump from their dump truck? Looks like a nice small pump.
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Thanks for sharing that dump bed pic in other post! Yes I need a tig welder. Only problem is I don't need it for anything other than my toys. Have been looking around for a good ac/dc , I don't know much about what to look for, any suggestions? Would be used on just thin stuff, 1/8".
And yes I got a small pump from rcbrim, pump and esc, same as rc4wd. I'm sure pump will be more than enough. Still not sure about hoist mech but only testing will tell. If it doesn't work out I'll be pestering you:) for a box and hoist!!! |
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You may not weld like Reg but you sure keep a good work pace like him Ralph :);).
The dump truck is coming along great. I wish I had remote locking diffs for mine. I have the rear axle in full lock and with a heavy load I notice a major drop in turning radius. The soft front tires don't help but I like the using BB's suggestion. I can quit wasting them trying to hit the black squirrels in the yard and put them to better use now. Lol. I've never glued any of my tires. I've hauled my quad axle with 45 cans of BUD on board and never spun a tire so why glue? :D Enjoying the build and can't wait to see it getting loaded and haulin dirt! :) Mario |
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you need a tig!
I picked up a three in one tig a few years back it does stick ,tig and its a plasma cutter. I have a large mig and I used to build my own 1:1off road race cars, got sick off all that dust from slitting blades, found a small miller 3 in 1 and haven't looked back , welds mild steel , stainless ect. I would be lost with out it now, I built my dozer using the tig ( all stainless) and the welds are by far cleaner especially on the little things. just my two cents. cheers andy |
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http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pskj8qawww.jpg And just when I was deep in thought the wife came home with big dummy!! And yes my head is in his mouth!! |
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Well enough of the horsing around,,,
I've got a question, in the pics below my screwdriver is pointing to the track pins. They are made of brass and the track shoes and links are aluminum. I thought that the aluminum would wear first, not brass. But it looks as if the brass pins are wearing faster, faster than I thought. I brought the d11 in for the lights to be installed and gave it a good going over. I have noticed some slop in tracks and knew they were wearing as the front wheel assembly was getting further out on the track tension. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psf2dmbdp7.jpg This one you can see the original size, 1/8" I suspect this one has locked to that link and rolling on the other one. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7mttfth5.jpg This one you can see on the inner link the amount of movement between links. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3rvwl3qc.jpg Now I had thought the aluminum would wear first, but it looks as if the brass pins are wearing out. That would be great as they are sooo much easier to make than the links!! Does this sound right to you guys? Brass going faster than aluminum? Over winter I will be tearing down and checking tolerances on links. Hopefully they will be acceptable and just pins needing replaced. Future pins will be made out of steel. Sound right? Ultimately I would love to have links and pins made of steel but that's a lot of metal splinters for me:) |
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Just some more pics of the dozer in the shop
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My simple tensioning is holding up. I cover it with graphite, try to keep all the parts with a dry lubricant. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psq0lllrzk.jpg Have some wear on the track rollers. They are brass with steel shaft. I'm upgrading them from 1/8" to 3/16 stainless shaft and milling centers out for bronze bushing. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psyxpg71om.jpg Enough room to replace 1/8" shaft with 3/16" http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psndtkwf7k.jpg This is the amount of brass that will make up the rollers. I'm going to be using non flanged bushings, just press them in. |
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http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psrcp91mhu.jpg The paint for dumptruck. Again I'm probably going with paint as last coat and not clearing at this time. I did put my tail between my legs and admitted defeat on the dump box and hydraulic hoist. But,,, have some secret parts coming. Oh and reg, you shouldn't get any hate mail from my wife,, I just have to look forward to having four more furry feet sometime this summer!!! If anything she might send you a thank you letter!!! Lol!!! The red paint just doesn't look as good in pics, it turned out well for me. And I'm going to try to add some detail to interior, that's why the dash and wheel. I want to keep them dark so not seen but still there if you look. If I can discipline myself she might be a candidate for build of month, just not sure what month, or year,,lol!! But the building of the old bed and hydraulic hoist wasn't a complete failure, I did learn some things along way. Like its good to save money by doing something yourself because you will need that money when you realize you aren't doing well and need to pay someone else!!!! |
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Oh and the other pieces in the pic are the light buckets and hardware for the d11 lights. :)
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Yeah, Reg makes some beautiful boxes & his screwdrive is the smoothest & powerful in the market today, you made a good buy. ;)
Your dozer don't look to be too bad for wear, care to take a guess how many cubes it pushed this yr? :D |
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Humm, I will have to think a bit, five skidsteer buckets, two back hoe buckets, then the countless hours moving the same material around in the backyard pit. I would be guessing that I've got at least 40-50 hours on it. But my wife said I was crazy, I have a lot more than that. She said I had about four hours a week on it on average, 30 weeks that's about 120 hours. Man time flies by when you are havin fun. !!!!! She may be a lot more accurate than I had originally thought, quite a bit of time pushin dirt at our Riverlot during the weekends too.
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Bent blade lift eyebolt. As you can see it wasn't threaded all the way because I didn't pay as close attention to keeping blade square when I made it and unthreaded it to get closer to level.
http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psmuxxuten.jpg This is the oil from most of the summer. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pss8qbd7pr.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psafusejvg.jpg Just some more pics http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4eylqbbi.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3g98mrna.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9svblrgk.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4llumjix.jpg I'm going to remake the link between track carriers and frame. I made it with allowance for left and right side to flex a bit like the 1:1. But to me I think it is unneeded and just allows too much play for tractor. And don't throw away that old recliner!! It's my swivel for painting and working on things!! Simple , big, and easy to stow when not using!! http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psamopzt7v.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psf5zugjd0.jpg |
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Just cutting for threads on a new filter, I stuff holes with ear plug material so nothing gets inside.
http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psiwsbdfqz.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pslt6phfou.jpg And insides of old filter. A couple particles but pretty good. Made up the new piece connecting track carriers to frame. Has very little torsion movement. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psqxfhw731.jpg And after thinking about making all new track pins (and inspecting them) I decided to just keep them until failure. For 90% of them it looks as if the brass has worn and not the links. New pins will be make of stainless or steel. In the pics you can see the two wheel carrier pivot pins. I made a new location, down 1/8" and back 1/4". This will get the track more flat to surface and more force to front. When originally made I had the front and rear wheels slightly higher than middle, not intentionally, just a miscalculation. This new pin location also takes most of the play out of the stretched track and reapplies original tensioning locations. I don't know if you can see the track laying flat and up front it curves up some (front wheel is little higher-that's what new pin location in back solves) http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psk0mnsw8u.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1oqziwa8.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psd6bhtlvd.jpg |
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Some progress over the weekend,
http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psg3bl3fqh.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psbpjncla1.jpg Yes I know the buckets are big, they are hiding 10mm LEDs. I have a lot (80+\-) of them. (Impulse purchase from a while back and need to use them). Now I need to wait for some resistors to show up in mail-couple days I think. ) And I am like a kid, rushed home over lunch to see if mailman had stopped yet, nope, not yet:(. Have some black shiny box thing for the truck build!!!) well back to work for a while, looking forward to end of day and seeing a big cardboard box on doorstep :). |
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As much as I hate to see the dozer all apart, thanks for sharing a closer look at the beauty. :cool:
Besides, this is normal wear and maintenance not a case of use and abuse :eek::lol: Sure brings back memories for me seeing it tore apart. I've personally rebuilt 4 D10 dozers and countless D8's over the years. Enjoyed it all. BTW , The link that connects the track frames to the machine is refered to as a " hard bar". I made the same mistake when I installed new motors on my plastic dozer. Put them to high and now the dozer rocks from front to back when you blade down and causes even more fun when you want to blade up and it takes forever to react until it rocks forward:eek::mad: . Will fix this winter for sure. Anyway, great machine and build Ralph. I can see how much time and effort you must have put into her. I see lots of tiny threaded holes in the close ups:eek::D Mario |
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Mario, here at Great Dane construction co., we are an equal opportunity employer. You don't need an education as we are more than willing to educate our employees in the way we want. It doesn't take a monkey to wrench on our machines, here is one of our employees now working on hooking up lights and some minor other work,
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Lol. I wonder if I can train the black squirrels in my yard to do that.:rolleyes: I think my wife might have an issue with a squirrel in the basement though:eek::lol:
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You guys are just NUTS:lol::lol::lol::lol::p:p:D
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Yes we are!!! Hopefully you guys got a good chuckle out of it!! Life is too short, and I'm thankful to be able to have such a good time livin, and trying to make it enjoyable!!
Anyway,, got a package from another one of them Canadians. :). http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psuolsoxlc.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psigxzg3kw.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pswwtk8y1w.jpg Pictures just don't do these justice!! Thank you reg, RCP!! You are making an excellent product!! I'm almost glad I failed miserably on my attempt on the dump hoist!! Once I get the d11 back running I'm devoting my time back to the dump build. A couple days, I'm waiting on a couple resistors for the lights. Also showed up were some drivetrain components from rcbrim, axles and the tranny. I got the 2 speed 1:64 or whatever the lower version was. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psv8unobri.jpg http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6efcvhfw.jpg |
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Got some more goodies today, the 1w resistors needed to finish d11lights. A couple punisher driveshafts for the dump trk, and it found these slider center detent pots. I'm thinking of installing them on my radio for the excavator, replacing dial pots and relocating them for finger friendly. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psmx6qzkom.jpg
I did get the switch installed late last night http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pspb14jvhq.jpg And I'm not sure about this but I picked it up a wallyworld. It's a series of push button switches. I'm thinking of tying this into the battle switch to be turned on / off via radio. Then I could manually have on or off whatever I wanted, like fan, front lights, back lights, sound ect. http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5o0nvhor.jpg And I finally have the rest of tonight to try and get d11 done so I can start working on that awesome dump box I got from reg!!! ****, I've been thinking of installing a plastic liner because it looks so good and I don't want to scratch it!! Damm something of mine that doesn't have scratches!! It just wouldn't fit in :). |
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Hurry up would ya!:bounce::bounce: I wanna see scratches in that bed ASAP!:cop:
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Lol!! Had to take a break, my eyes are starting to bleed , my hands shaking , my brain is overheating!! All these little wires and keep grabbing the darn wrong end of the soldering iron!!!!!
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The birds nest I've been working on :) And don't think that I don't keep looking over at the truck in pieces!! http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...psqv1r4hum.jpg I've been keeping your box covered, protected from dog drool and cat hair!! Lol!! I'm sure when she is done I'll be hauling some fat pu,,, uhh kitty :) around. It's gonna be a kittie magnet for sure!! |
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