I hired a mechanic, and he's got the truck overhauled and looking quite a bit better.
Axle pivots were changed to 4mm hardwear for now, probably going to get holes oversized and brass bushings later on when it gets the power overhaul.
It still needs some detail parts put back on, and more boom work. But it looks like i should have hired a diesel mechanic a while back.
I threw together a suprise for crane operation...
Hopefully by the Sept meet i'll get mirror and wiper painted and back on, make some windows. Maybe a few other things, but probably nothing too heavy.
Then some dimentinal drawings for the crane carrier were tracked down and this is 1/16 scale.