Pete 379 Flat Top 48"

[sgt hopkins]

Your truck looks awesome!.. what did you use to glue the side pieces in for the hood? before you used the filler? Im about to put in my order and tackle my first set of pete fenders..

[YoungGunz]

Originally Posted by sgt hopkins

Your truck looks awesome!.. what did you use to glue the side pieces in for the hood? before you used the filler? Im about to put in my order and tackle my first set of pete fenders..

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...P?I=LXDJ94&P=8

That's what I used,i put a piece of styrene behind it to strengthen it and its worked really well so far

J.D.

[sgt hopkins]

Hey, thanks for the info....

[Tamiya Cowboy]

I would pass on the solvent.. Ask Styln when your out in the sun it will come undone and it will show. This has happened to 3 of my bodys that solvent has been used on the rest used Mercury CA and not a one has popped yet.

[fhhhstix]

I use the Bondene with no problems. Bondene will make a solid permanent bond but it must be used on like materials ABS to ABS or HIPS to HIPS. If you are unsure if the pieces to be glued are the same material use the Plastruct Plastiweld. All of my dump bed bodies are built using the bondene as well as my service truck bed. The boom and the bed on the service truck are all styrene and have no other materials used for reinforcement.


Like materials
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXYV17&P=SM

Dissimilar materials
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXDJ96&P=SM

Travis

[sgt hopkins]

Thanks Paul, mercury ca is the same stuff I used to glue tires to wheels on my stadium trucks...

[cabrover]

Looking good!! Great start to an awesome build with a smokin paint scheme!!

Tim

[YoungGunz]

Finally made time to work on my truck

Mounted the sleeper plate and finished the lighting except for the roof lights. I wasnt completely happy with the body work so i ended up redoing some of it and now i am very content with it. Made a deck plate to hide the wires and to allow the hydraulics and servo lead to come out cleanly. Boxed up all the stuff thats going to paint so i can get a quote. Hopefully i can find some time to run to the body shop tomorrow





















Hope you enjoyed

J.D.

[YoungGunz]

Small update for you guys....

was able to set up the lighting for the rear bumper and take a few pictures and video.





Video:



Maybe the most exciting part of the build is mounting SnP's smokin stacks Mounted them on my trial body and dang do they look gooooooooood!!!!!! I cant wait till i get my body back from paint so i can put her all together

one stack


two stacks






And i blacked out the windows, i am very pleased with the turn out



This basically shows my entire collection


And my play area, when its too cold to go outside

[YoungGunz]

Installed the hydraulics on the truck and tested them out with the JMI frameless and a full load of rubber. The trailer sometimes has trouble going down does any one have any ideas as to why?

Here is my first video i took when i was just testing everything:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i3jF...ature=youtu.be

And here is the video with the truck and trailer operating together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBo0...mWe5bk2ZKRGL_a

Excuse the driving, i havent driven in a few months so im a little rusty

J.D.

[spudd]

nice set up...i wish i would have jumped on the trailer when it was for sale..
cant wait to see it all done.great job so far

[Espeefan]

That is a great set-up. I really would like to buy a Servonaut unit sometime for my own truck. I like the trailer you have too. That's really cool how the tarp works. As for the hydraulics being jumpy on the way down, I'd guess that maybe the cylinder is binding up a bit. You've really only got gravity helping to collapse the stages. Is that a Wedico pump and telescoping cylinder? I think Ralph (the trailer builder) always adds one more stage to the Wedico cylinders, for more lift. I'm not sure if he's a regular member here, but I think he is. Maybe ask him for some advice. Or maybe he'd be willing to take a look at the cylinder and get it working better for you.

[Brian in PA]

Great videos. As for your trailer not coming down all the way, add some weight to the dog house. You can use some small steel pieces and double sided sticky tape it attach it. I had to do it to mine. That is one thing about Ralphs trailers they are nice and light weight, but need some extra pounds to come down all the way.

[SWAGGER]

Simply incredible, that's all I can say, between the work on the truck, the servonaut unit (does sound better than the MFU) and that trailer, what a fantastic setup. Well done.

[YoungGunz]

Teaser



J.D.

[MACK Daddy]

Originally Posted by Brian in PA

Great videos. As for your trailer not coming down all the way, add some weight to the dog house. You can use some small steel pieces and double sided sticky tape it attach it. I had to do it to mine. That is one thing about Ralphs trailers they are nice and light weight, but need some extra pounds to come down all the way.

x2 on that



Alfy

[dabears]

WOW I love that trailer!! This truck is going to be sweet when its done! Are the servonaut units easier to install then the Tamiya MFU's? Loved the vids cant wait to see the truck painted!

[YoungGunz]

Originally Posted by dabears

WOW I love that trailer!! This truck is going to be sweet when its done! Are the servonaut units easier to install then the Tamiya MFU's? Loved the vids cant wait to see the truck painted!

Im not really sure because ive only set up a servonaut module.... never done the MFU.


Well stayed up to the wee hours and finished just about everything done. im pretty happy with the paint and the overall look of the truck. I also want to thank everyone that contributed, S&P, The Bone yard, Ric from PMD and the guy that painted it up for me you all did an awesome job!! If it wasnt for you guys i would probably still be scratching my head on how to do things. Still need to attach the fenders and figure out the roof light situation but that will all be solved hopefully sooner that later

Here are some pics















And what I have been waiting for!!!

Before:



After:













Hope you enjoyed Will post a video of it when its done uploading

J.D.

[pumptech]

The overhaul looks awesome,you did some great body work,your right ,guys at pmd did a great job on the paint job,Really like the new rear fenders ,nice touch .I see you had a few setbacks on it with the old body ,but you got worked out,keep it up !!
Awesome rig

[YoungGunz]

Thanks!!

Here is video as well

http://youtu.be/y5MDO5iWM7M

J.D.