my first semi build (dump)

[steamer]

Rad and grill are looking good. Sure like the old school look myself. Styrene is nice stuff to work with and Looking forward to more posts.
Rob

[Lil Giants]

Making good progress Jason... though you'd better hustle it up some or you're miss the summer work season.

[RCLogger]

Keep up the good work Jason, love those fenders..

greg

[steamer]

Jason. I've been following this guys blog for about eight months now. I know your an Autocar fan and today he started on them. A great bunch of pictures.
http://truckfax.blogspot.com/search?...max-results=24
PS you can click on the photos they're high res.
Rob

[chaseracer]

thanks Rob for the link I will be sure to check that out. maybe it will motivate me to get to work, have been super busy with work and working weekends then kids hockey and baseball. just need to find time to finish so I can come up there and play.

funny I have seen most of thouse trucks when I lived in Nova Scotia. small world

[steamer]

Glad you liked it. I started following him with my FWD. He did a four part blog on them and some of his truck pictures were ones that I drove off the end of the assembly line.
Rob

[steamer]

Jason. I don't know if you've been back to Mac's blog but there's two more on Autocars up.
Rob

[CORVETTEJOEY]

Great to see someone else building an autocar! Looks great!!!!!!
Joey

[SmallHaul]

Nice styrene work. Looking good!

[chaseracer]

had a bit a of time last night so I thought I would get out the autocar and work on it some more. so here is what I did.
-reattached the cab roof and rough filled the gap where I split the roof.
-made panel for back of cab and cut out rear window.
-got the dremel out and lowered and reshaped the front window to look more round lke autocar.
-fabed up first section or front bunper. (just taped on on pic till I make bracket for mounting.)
and I wasn't happy with the front of the grill that I did do I took it out to remake it, just waiting on new mesh.

I am making slow progress, Just limited shop time right now and my fabing and styrene skills are slow too . here are some pics







thanks for looking.

[RCLogger]

Coming alone Jason
U got that styrene figured out. Right on !
Get-er-done so we can get togther and put it to work...

greg

[redbullcrawler]

Originally Posted by chaseracer

next update, well in order to make this dump dump, it needs power to move the screwdrive. the common way is to hook seperate motor up to the screwdrive controlled with a second esc and channel, well I wanted to try something different, so with some ideas in my head and friends like Redbull with more ideas and tools, then me. I spend the day at Redbulls (mikes) sunday, and we worked on making a pto style system off the transmission. in order to make this work I needed to make a second shaft come out the back of the tranny. so it would provide power for my pto.

stock tranny.


so the idea is that the 3 speed tranny will operate the pto, meaning I don't need another motor mounted on the truck. so order to do this, we need to make a netural gear so I can make the dump go up and down without the truck moving but I can make it go up with it in gear too. so we figured who needs third gear anyway. .

so take that third gear out.



now on to the fun, the shaft inside the tranny is splined so I couldn't just stick a longer rod in there to get the longer output I wanted so because I need the splines, this is what we did.



we cut the top shaft in half then we will flip the long side around , reattach the shafts with a custom made cupler so second gear lines back up, and now we have a second output out the back.





so I know you are all thinking that the shaft spins all the time so how to you stop the box from going up and down all the time.
this output will power the shaft to the screw drive but this conector shaft (pto) can be engaged and disengaged with a servo. more on that later as all the work is not done on that yet.

I know there will be a few issues and I know there might me some some cons to this setup but I wanted to try something different. and trying something different is fun, or at least that is what I try to tell my wife
thanks for looking

thanks to Steve for the nice coupler he make on his lathe

You need to get this project back to the shop so we can have more fun making the pto

[diddys trucking]

I must say great looking rig i personly would go with the heavy duty fenders it makes it look much more beefy

[CORVETTEJOEY]

great job i have some pictures of my autocar i can put up that i made from a king hauler it came out nice lot the build form though! lol
joey

[CORVETTEJOEY]

[chaseracer]

Originally Posted by CORVETTEJOEY

great job i have some pictures of my autocar i can put up that i made from a king hauler it came out nice lot the build form though! lol
joey

thanks guys, joey your autocar looks awesome, I hope mine will be half as good as yours where did u get or how did you make your grill/rad?. I haven't worked on this truck in a few months, lack of inspiration and time. I am getting the itch to build again so first will be finishing the autocar.

Redbull thanks for sparking up this thread and getting me going on this again.

[Pippoe]

Congratulations on your build! Well done!

Cheers

Pip

[CORVETTEJOEY]

Sent you a pm with a link to my photobucket lots of pictures there!
To make the grill i took half round styreen and sanded the half round alittle to flatten it!
Joey

[chaseracer]

it's been a while but back to work on this just a small up date. It's alive!!!!! just a quick video. thanks mike for your help

click pic to watch video

[steamer]

Wow, that awesome. If that's the drive off the trans, it works real smooth. Maybe we'll get some gravel in it at the end of the month.
Rob