Merc 4x4

[Stuart]

Made some progress on the drag, its now shorter, a bit lower and a beaver tail.
Still not sure whether to go with the Supers or stick with duals:





Cheers
Stu

[Stuart]

This project just keeps on evolving!

I bought an aluminium dump bed kit off of ebay.de





A quick mock up:



I like the 6x6 idea, something like this:



Or this:



Now waiting on more parts to arrive.
Thanks for looking
Stu

[kaptain Jack]

Hi Stuart,love your progress,I'm thinking of building a 4 by 4 army truck and wanted to ask about axles.Are ones that you used both from Tamiya high lift? Also not familiar with the term TLT axle. The front axle on your build looks like regular 1/14 truck axle,but it is steering one,how do you call it and where can I buy it?
Thanks in advance.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by kaptain Jack

Hi Stuart,love your progress,I'm thinking of building a 4 by 4 army truck and wanted to ask about axles.Are ones that you used both from Tamiya high lift? Also not familiar with the term TLT axle. The front axle on your build looks like regular 1/14 truck axle,but it is steering one,how do you call it and where can I buy it?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Kaptain, thanks for the compliments.

I used a TLT-1 for the front axle they can be bought here:

TLT axle

or off ebay which is where I got mine, I think I paid around 55usd.

The rears are semi axles with junfac wideners.

I hope to make more progress soon, just waiting on parts to arrive

Good luck with your build an remember to post pics

Cheers
Stu

[kaptain Jack]

Thanks Stuart, you are the man!

[kaptain Jack]

Stuart,where can I find English version of SLU, got two units,cant make it work, very frustrating.

[kaptain Jack]

Figured it out,the SLU wouldn't cooperated with my rx,I changed to a different one,seems ok now.Still one question: how do you switch from one sound to another?
Thnx Jack

[kaptain Jack]

Thank you Stuart, you are the man.

[louie r/c nut]

Sweet ride

[Stuart]

Thanks guys and thanks Chris for stepping in there

Found a bit of time this weekend to spend in the hobby room and made a couple of vids of the tipper:

Tipper test 1

Tipper test 2

Hope to have it finished soon and do a proper out door vid.

Thanks for looking
Stu

[Stuff]

has some good speed to lifting!

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Stuff

has some good speed to lifting!

Thanks Stuff, yeah it lifts well.

New outdoor vid, apologies for the poor sound quality, need a better camera

Outdoor test

Need to lock the axles me thinks, although the hill is steeper than it looks

Cheers
Stu

[Bigrigger]

Great build Stu! I really like the trailer. The dumper is screw-drive, right? Can you post some pics of the mechanism?

[kaptain Jack]

Sweet

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Bigrigger

Great build Stu! I really like the trailer. The dumper is screw-drive, right? Can you post some pics of the mechanism?

Thanks for the comments, yes its screw drive, pics are earlier in the thread, I can take some more though if you need them.

Originally Posted by kaptain Jack

Sweet

Thanks

Originally Posted by oztruck

Good setup Stuart. You should be happy the way it's turning out.

Chris

Thanks Chris, yes I'm happy with it so far, still a long way to go till its finished though. Not enough hours in the day at the mo!

Stu

[bigdogrod]

i like that dump, can i ask how much?

i'd like it to be a little taller tho.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by bigdogrod

i like that dump, can i ask how much?

i'd like it to be a little taller tho.

Hi Big dog,

Sorry for the late reply, I haven't done much to this truck for a while, been busy with my tractor build. Hope to do more with it over the winter.

I bought it off of ebay.de complete with the lift mechanism, motor, pendulum suspension etc and paid 300€ with delivery, its very well made and sits nice and low on the chassis. I'm happy with the height

Stu

[Stuart]

Been awhile but decided to rebuild the merc, its back to being 4x4 with new bead locks and bigger tyres, new gearbox and beier sound module:











Short video: new video

thanks for looking
Stu

[egronvold]

That will be a good all- terrain dump truck! The Beier sound module is awesome.