My Stretched globeliner

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Aaron that new grill looks great! Nice work man.

[Diesel Demond]

looks real good man i might half to purchase one

[Mama Sue]

Looks great Aaron....

[dabears]

Well when i packed the truck for the move i have put a towel over the rear fenders and i had something on the rails but it all shifted and i guess in the heat while in storage or something this happened....


SO yea.... Both fenders are F'd up!!!!! And it's not gonna just buff out either lol. SO looks like i will be getting some new fenders for this truck and re painting them.... I might try to sand these down and just repaint them but i may just make new ones a little different or buy some of the new ones from Russ.. Haven't decided yet.
Just thought i would share my pain. I know most have been there at least once..

HMMM maybe ill just put all this on the frame i was gonna chop for the day cab and use this chasis for the daycab... Maybe ill be rebuilding this truck for the 5th time afterall!!

[Dairyland Trucker]

Looks like it is time to sell the truck now and start over with a new one maybe a red one LOL!!!!

[dabears]

Originally Posted by Dairyland Trucker

Looks like it is time to sell the truck now and start over with a new one maybe a red one LOL!!!!

why you gonna buy it?

[Diesel Demond]

I feel your pain i left mine in shrink wrap for about 2 months only to find out shrink wrap has a oil in it and it wrinkled all my paint massive orange peel!!

[dabears]

Originally Posted by Diesel Demond

I feel your pain i left mine in shrink wrap for about 2 months only to find out shrink wrap has a oil in it and it wrinkled all my paint massive orange peel!!

Shrink wrap? I would me more worried about it melting to my truck... yea I hear ya on the orange peel look. that's how most my paint looks when I try painting. one day ill paint good.

[GripStigma]

trucks looking good... other than the damage! no bueno!

[hippy]

oh wow, i feel your pain dude! but like you said, decision time to rebuild or replace.

as for the orange peel effect, you will always have orange peel in paint. just need to cut and polish after to get the mirror shine. take practice to get it right on styrene, but when done holy smooth! 2500 paper to start with. then final cut with 3000 sand paper. then 3 stage polish compounds with low to really low polisher rpm's. takes time but well worth it.

[dabears]

Originally Posted by GripStigma

trucks looking good... other than the damage! no bueno!

Thanks and tell me about it!

Originally Posted by hippy

oh wow, i feel your pain dude! but like you said, decision time to rebuild or replace.

as for the orange peel effect, you will always have orange peel in paint. just need to cut and polish after to get the mirror shine. take practice to get it right on styrene, but when done holy smooth! 2500 paper to start with. then final cut with 3000 sand paper. then 3 stage polish compounds with low to really low polisher rpm's. takes time but well worth it.

So your volunteering to polish the paint? Seems you know how to make it shine LOL

OK I was bored today so I decided to mess around with the truck again and finally install the charge port so I don't have to take the breathers and rack off everytime the battery dies.....
Unfortunately the local hobby store blows (hobby town usa) and doesn't sell Tamiya anything....... SO getting the switch I needed to get that Travis told me about wasn't an option without ordering online so I just went to ACE Hardware and bought one similar. so once again took the cab off and started drilling, cutting, and soldering wires and ended up with this


and three way toggle On/off/charge


tested it out and worked perfect!! No more tearing it apart to get to the battery, used a 5100 MAH so ill have plenty of run time too.

So heres some current photos








Thanks for looking

[Dairyland Trucker]

No I figured you would buy the red one now that you are back into the trucks LOL!!!!

[dabears]

Originally Posted by Dairyland Trucker

No I figured you would buy the red one now that you are back into the trucks LOL!!!!

HAHA wish I could i'd gladly own it!

[buzzy16]

This is an awesome truck you've got here. How exactly did you set up the charge ports? It's a great idea

Thanks buzzy

[dabears]

Originally Posted by buzzy16

This is an awesome truck you've got here. How exactly did you set up the charge ports? It's a great idea

Thanks buzzy

Sorry for the delayed response.

First buy a 3 position switch (3 pole) should have 6 contact on top.

You wire the battery to the middle 2 terminals poss on one side and ground the other.
wire a blank set of wires with a plug on it to one side matching poss on same side etc.

the other side is wired too the mfu power wires. its a reversed switch basically you click the switch right it sends power to left terminals. switch left sends to right terminals. center is off.

Not sure how well you can see but here is the switch wired up. I have a 8" lead with deans plug at end running thru cab floor above my right tank. I can reach it under the tank and pull it out a little to charge and then push extra wire back up into cab floor when running and stays out of way...


Let me know if that helps. if not I can draw it out in paint or on the photo or take different photos.

[Lmackattack]

Your Globeliner is what inspired me to start building again...

[buzzy16]

Thank you dabears, I understand you, it's an excellent idea.

buzzy