Custom Bruder Dumper Build

[CustomCrawlerz]

Originally Posted by FabOne

Looking good! What axles are you using? Can the diffs be locked out? Is that what the larger socket head screw on the upper left rear of the diff housing is for?

-Terry

The Axles are from INTEGY. I purchased them a while back for this purpose. They are very nice quality, and constructed of all aluminum besides the Steel internal gears, etc... I do not know if the Difss can be locked out or not, I do not want them locked out myself, or I think I may run into some issues while trying to turn the truck as the wheelbase is so narrow from using the Bruder model. It is about 3-4" shorter then your normal Tamiya tractor. The diffs have oil in them, so that is my thought on why that screw is on the pumpkin of the Axles. Least that's what I used it for, putting oil into the axles.

[FabOne]

THANKS for the info! Yea, after I ask what the screw on the pumpkin was, I remembered that it is for adding the oil.

Nice set-up!!

-Terry

[CustomCrawlerz]

Well, I have had the steering completed and threw a motor on it to be able to run it around. The motor I threw on it will not be the one that I run on it, but I just needed to get a good starting point for starting input RPM for the setup. I have been working on the dump mechanism recently and will post up some pictures and maybe the test speed videos I shot soon.