New member. Building D8

[Fired up]

Thanks far cry from some of the detailed builds on this forum hope it works as good as some that I have seen here.

[Espeefan]

Nice work, Fired up. What sort of metal working equipment do you have at your disposal? Even if you don't think your dozer is quite as detailed as some others, I think it looks great. Just shows that sometimes you don't necessarily need a lot of fancy CNC equipment to make a nice functional model.

For window glass, you could always go with some clear, thinner acrylic plate, or maybe some polycarbonate / lexan sheet, cut to size. Maybe make some gaskets out of sheet styrene to hold the 'glass' in place (sandwiched between the cab walls) on both sides, or maybe an aluminum window frame on the inside of the cab wall, slightly smaller then the window opening itself, so that the glass can be glued into that resulting window pocket with a clear drying canopy glue for models.

[tracksntreadslou]

Wow you Build fast and awsome work ..I have been watching from the start and now lookinf forward to some dirt pushing vids ..awsome ..keep up the great work
I was at my local liquidation world and found some very cheap smoked clear totes ..less than an 3/32 thick ..Should work for my grader windowws

[Fired up]

Thanks for your encouraging words. All I have far as metal working equipment is a small metal lath. Every thing else I have is for woodworking. Far as glass I picked up some lexan. At a glass shop. May not be pushing much dirt for a while we got 17 inch of snow last week and calling for more this weekend.

[Fired up]

Here's the new addition. To my small fleet. I needed something to Haul my dozer. Now to build a deft trailer and a dump trailer. After dozer gets finished.

[Fired up]

Well I do not have a lot of time this time of year my shop turns into santas work shop as I usually have some kind of Christmas gift to build. This year it's a fire place. But I did get a half hour and put together my interior I primed it and it's waiting for finish paint. I hope to see my hydraulics the end of this month. Thanks for looking. And merry Xmas to all.

[DADSGARAGE]

Originally Posted by Fired up

Thanks for your encouraging words. All I have far as metal working equipment is a small metal lath. Every thing else I have is for woodworking. Far as glass I picked up some lexan. At a glass shop. May not be pushing much dirt for a while we got 17 inch of snow last week and calling for more this weekend.

17" of snow...so you're saying you just got a little bit snow??!! Yikes!! With that much snow you may wish the dozer was 1/4 scale..LOL

How wide is the blade on your dozer?? And how big is your driveway....

Looking forward to seeing more pics as you build !!!

[Fired up]

Blade is 13''. And drive way to big lol. But would stop me from trying if I had the hydraulics working

[Fired up]

Still waiting Hydr parts. Hope to see them soon. I did receive a sound modular for it to day and some wheels for my low boy. Not sure about starting the paint until l get the hydraulics in and working just in case something needs tweaked. Hard to find time in shop lately with all this snow. I have at lest 3 feet of snow here.

[Fired up]

Well as I am waiting let's start a low boy trailer to haul dozer. Pic of mock up. 3 axels or 2. I think 3. Can anyone tell me how well or not well the stock king hauler pulls. Dozer will be around 50lbs and trailer weight witch could be 15-20 lbs. any suggestions.

[Fired up]

Had a couple hours here's a start for lowboy. Clean it up some later.

[Lil Giants]

A bare stock will pull it ok, but at least 3:1 additional gear reduction would be better control. Lock the rearmost axle.

[Fired up]

How do you lock the rear axle the gear reduction is that from rc4x4 ?

[Fired up]

I am building this project as cheap as I can here's the first axle. Using threaded rod with long nut on each end passing through 1/2 by 1/2 square tubing

[Fired up]

Here's anther view of axel. Like I said building this as cheap as I can I am make the wheels out of hockey pucks turning them on my lath. Still thinking of how to build the goose neck.

[Lil Giants]

Take the axle off the trk, split the plastic case, take the diff apart & there you will see the 3 small bevel gears on the cross. Slide one spider gear off the cross & drop it between the other 2. Reassemble the axle.

Locking the rearmost axle doesn't seem to hamper the steering too much, but does help immensely in pulling in the dirt. Of course 6wd is even better yet & adding Shoe Goo to front 2 diffs is the best for limited slip & great steering control.

[Fired up]

Great thanks will look in to it. Here is a few pics of axles installed

[Fired up]

Pic of axle pieces.

[Fired up]

I am going to put a new duel speed control in my king haule and was wondering if I could use a 12amp in it or should I go with the 25amp. Any suggestion
Thanks

[RCP57]

12amp should be fine. I use a Sabertooth 2x12 in my 850 Kenworth and it only overloads it while in high gear towing a load. The truck is around 100 pounds at that point.