HL Truck Mods

[c.rainford73]

It fits just right

[Roboticus_Prime]

Nice work Gary

I've just fitted my servo steering setup and did a little trick with some leftover aluminum airsoft tubing.

Cut two about 2mm apiece and fit them on the front hubs to remove the slack and side to side wiggle of the front tires.

Cheap and easy little fix. Added a small o ring to the large pitman swing arm servo attachment arm and no more sloppy front end!

Carl

I just did this with washers, and it's a whole new truck. Drastically cut down on the random turns.

[c.rainford73]

Roboticus it is a very vast improvement for sure

[Max-U52]

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[Will01Capri]

Looking good.
Next steps, have to get rid of those horrible plastic pretend shackles. Noticed that a few people had found some good ones and fitted them. Also a working winch.
Good work

I am looking at cutting mine up a little to have the doors able to open aswell as have the windows etc bit more realistic.

[c.rainford73]

Hello Does anyone have any magic tricks in regards to the canopy frame and materials needed?

I'm just working on my radio to arrive tomorrow and now need to focus on the rear cover to hide my electronics that are going inside some crates.

any and all ideas are welcome

[Ludwig von wigbearer]

Hi carl, you have made a lovely job of your truck, a very tidy installation, paint and wheels look great too.

regards john.

[jarndice]

I got my Truck yesterday at last,
It is still in its box waiting for 1/2 dozen other builds to get finished,
In the meanwhile I sit here like a spider in the middle of their web sucking the juices out of all the brilliant ideas that are filling this threads pages.
Shaun.

[Model Builder 4]

Morning Carl,

I used high tensile flat metal bar which is about 3mm wide which can be bent and shaped to your liking, believe it or not I came across it from an old windscreen wiper there are 2 pieces of it which hold the shape of the rubber blade running the length of the entire windscreen wiper, if you peel away the rubber blade you are left with 2 strong bendable lengths of flat bar, you can sometimes find cheap windscreen wipers at the motoring section of most discount store's and if you look at the price of just buying flat bar they work out quite reasonable compared to that, I have used this in many applications for framework

Cheers, Lee.

[Model Builder 4]

Morning Shaun,

If you havnt already checked your truck I suggest you do, I had 2 delivered and it seems that heng long quality control had gone AWOL as 1 of the truck's had a front axel fitted to both the front and rear of it it's not as if you couldn't notice it as the connection arm from the steering shaft to the servo motor was still attached and just swinging about as it had nothing to fix too but never mind got it all sorted now

Cheers, Lee.