55 Pete 281 DUEL W.I.P.

[DuelTruckDriver]

Thanks Izzy

Originally Posted by Claus

Just curious, where in the movie did it show the truck having a tag axle, I don't remember that but it has been a loooonng time since I watched it.

Originally Posted by Espeefan

I read the same thing about the real movie truck having a tag axle also. Not sure where in the movie it's readily visible, but I would have still made it a twin screw drive, myself.

Claus and Nathan, there are 2 spot in the movie that I've seen, there may be more if you really search.

First, shot I seen was at the ladys gas/snake station. Where Dennis gets in the phone booth the truck starts up and stars to roll. It shows the undercarriage just enough to see there isn't a rear drive axle if you pause it and slow motion it.
Second, shot is after the truck has went off the cliff. It shows the wreckage of the truck ontop of the car you can clearly see the tag axle there.

Also, when you get to see close side shots of the truck you can see that the rear axle has a grease hub cover, instead of the drive axle nuts holding the axle into the hub.

oztruck, man I hope my tanker turns out as awesome as yours

>Marty<

[DuelTruckDriver]

Hey guys, finally got a new update for ya on DUEL I had to totally redo the 1st set of doors and move the hinges foward more because of clearence issues. These doors broke my b@llZ's to get the real 1:1 look and function properly without hitting the cowl. Heres a pic after I cut the cowl and a-pillar more.





Heres a pic of one of the sets of hinges.




Got the belt line applied around the roof used some half round rod. Man, of all the styrene I've worked with this was a real pain in the a$$ to get perfectly straight around the top.



Heres my 2nd set of doors they are gonna be overlaped of .040 for the inner which will fit flush inside of the cab door cut outs. And .020 for the outer skin which will over lap the outside of the cab.





Incase you guys were wondering about the green painters tape on several spots of the frame. Thats actually were I'm gonna cut the frame down too. But, I'm gonna wait and do that when I get everything mocked up.

I made the cab mounts out of angle styrene doubled up for strength. And then it they were pegged glued to cab. Also backed all the glue joints w/ .040 sheet cut to fit patterns and made a partial fire wall. Since the doors are gonna open I was afraid of the structural integerity of the cab. I know its way over kill but I just couldn't help myself





Heres what I had to do to the cab floor, cut the sides down and, use alum. strip to bolt under the floor so that the cab would be at the correct height. And also to bolt the cab to the floor with.







This shot here you can see that I used some strip styrene and glued to the underside of the cowl panel for the top and sides of the hood to rest on.



Some shots of the cab on the frame. The cab may half to be moved foward or back. Depending on when I get the fenders mounted to get the right length of the hood.







>Marty<

[DuelTruckDriver]

More pics of the tag axle installed it turned out really good Thanks again Travis for the housing






I did move the front axle foward and made some shims to raise the front end back up. When you move the axle foward it lowers the front end about 2-3mm.





Got the front grill sketched up, gonna be a good bit of work involved in making it also. Notice how much taller the old grills are compared to the more modern ones. One reason was that the front frame horns were angle cut so the grill pretty much all the way down to the bottom of frame channel.



>Marty<

[1985 kenworth]

yes great work i will be watching the build too that truck always gave me the creeps but in a good way ...nothing like the older trucks