Cossetts Aussie Knight (finished)

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Originally Posted by SANDCRAFT TRANSPORT

Come on Tracy stop sitting on your hands, we want up-dates, even a last years photo would do Ha Ha

Have you put those valve stems into those wheels yet ?? You’re slackin off

DKV good to see you in little OZ as well
Tim

LOL Tim crack that whip I can wait to see the valve stems

[Cossett]

Hi all, A small up date the air hoses came in today so I can start the planing on wiring them up...


Cheers Tracy

[sneaky-pete]

Those are cool Tracy!

[Cossett]

Hi all, Well I got a early birthday present today from 1800-BB-TIMMY, the bull bar is great and well worth the money now I just have to put the jewelry on it and mount it....
Thanks Tim

Cheers Tracy

[Aussie]

Looks Great, Tracy,

The Old man does a pretty good job, Nice work Tim

[Quad-Dog]

Well done, Tim!

[ihbuilder]

I think I said it a couple times now Looks great , Tim does a great job on those bull bars

[Cossett]

Hi all a small up date started the wiring of the BB what a real pain in the asssssss that was took 1 hour just to feed the wires though and timmy you said it couldn't be done


Cheers Tracy

[cbazq271]

Originally Posted by Cossett

Hi all, A small up date the air hoses came in today so I can start the planing on wiring them up...


Cheers Tracy

where did you buy these from? I would like some.

[Cossett]

The aerial wire (Brown wire) is feed though the center left up right to the aerial mount with the other wires timmy do you want to borrow my contact lenses ?????????
When it is mounted there will be some slack in the cables to allow it to tilt FDW

Cheers Tracy

[doodlebug]

Hey Tracy, have you considered using your "coiled airhose's" for a powered trailer?
Just a passing thought. Look's great, keep us posted!
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

[Cossett]

The coiled air hoses are from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/KUSTOM-RC-T...id=p4340.l2563 in the UK.

The only thing that I'm changing are the Female connectors to ones that have a threaded locking nut on the back that you can get from Jaycar over here or I think the equivalent over your way is radio shack or electrical parts shop....

The way I was going to run the hoses is keep the tamiya truck/trailer wire kit plug / leed as normal but mount the tamiya female plug in the chassis plate near the back of the cab and add two female connectors to the front of the trailer next to the male plug, mount the 3 coloured air lines afixed to the prime mover on a seperate switch/ 9 volt battery (to run a +positive / - negitive for other accessories eg : beacons ) and the 3rd coiled line will be a dumby line and repeat for extra trailers,

There are other ways you and run the air hoses but I'm doing it this way for the reason if I ever part the Truck & trailer the next owner can just hook the truck or trailer up and lights will work with out having to rewire the trailer]

If that makes any sence..

Cheers Tracy

[cbazq271]

Thanks, I will order some wires today.

[Cossett]

Hi all, time for a up date finally the BB is fully wired and the spot lights are working, the aerial mounted, then the right hand battery box was swapped for another left hand one and is used for a auxiliary duracell 9 volt battery for the beacons and 2 switches in the rear tool box along with more wiring, then I had to re-build the front end replacing the shackles/ screws and front cross member and shocks (long story), mounted the BB Hooray took long enough.
Next was to swap the silver can tamiya motor for a carson truck puller motor to slow it down without putting a reduction box in her,retested everything so I can go the the next stage and that is lifting the floor about 12mm....









Cheers Tracy

[Aussie]

Truck is looking good, Tracy, coming along nicely

The turnbuckle ends really set off the Bull bar, gonna be a nice rig when it's finished.

Very impressive, keep the pic's coming, Mate

Paul

[Pippoe]

Impressive lights on your bull bar there!

What did you use? 5mm leds or 1w /3w-leds?

The aerial looks a bit odd though.. What about a thinner antenna? ..out of 1mm spring steel or something similar..

Cheers

Pip

[td9clyde]

lookin good keep up the great work

[IDontKnow]

One of the most useful parts for raising the floor comes from Jaycar Electronics!
The make nice chrome plated standoff sleeves for circuit boards, and they also do the longer 3mm screws that will be needed to secure the floor pans.
Have done it to three trucks up to now and all have come out looking good! Ask Tim!

[Cossett]

Originally Posted by Pippoe

Impressive lights on your bull bar there!

What did you use? 5mm leds or 1w /3w-leds?

The aerial looks a bit odd though.. What about a thinner antenna? ..out of 1mm spring steel or something similar..

Cheers

Pip

Hi pip, the aerial is a typical long range UHF CB Radio aerial that is common here in Aus
photo from http://www.itruck.com.au
Also the LED's in the spots are the fog light LED's that come with the truck..

Cheers Tracy

[Pippoe]

Hi,

thanks for the pic. I probably didn't make myself clear.. Sorry for that...

Position and size are ok.. I just thought the antenna to be a bit thick.. looks like 3-4mm.. a 1.5mm antenna would look better.

...but I see you actually have your receiver's antenna wire inside the tube, so forget about my comment. Well done!

Cheers

Pip