HL Truck Mods

[Will01Capri]

Link for truck bed?
Anyone know where to get spare leaf sprung mount plastic things from?

[AlwynTurner]

Hi Will, that's one of the things I'm hoping to address when I get a working printer..........

Alwyn

[Will01Capri]

Excellent
I was actually thinking robbing from a spare truck and then the spare truck making into a proper crawler with 4 link axles instead of leafs.
Keep us posted on the progress

[Max-U52]

Link for truck bed?
Anyone know where to get spare leaf sprung mount plastic things from?

These guys might also have the spring parts you want. I've dealt with Heng Long's Store at Aliexpress many times with no problems at all. Your experience may vary (in case any of you jokers are lawyers).

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/produc ... 6f23n2cAfc

They also have tons of tank parts. The only drawback is it sometimes takes two or three weeks to get here, but that gets better all the time.

[Max-U52]

This package has a couple spring perches, not sure if it's what you need. You might try emailing them but I've never done that so don't know what kind of response you'll get. Oh yeah, it looks like they've changed the name from Heng Long's Store to TankZhang store. I have them on my favorites bar as Heng Long's but when I go there it says TankZhang store.

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/produc ... 6ee8NPxEt2

Good place for parts, though, and good prices.

[Max-U52]

The more I think about it, the bed alone is $9.99 USD plus shipping. That's one third the cost of the entire truck. I think since you also need spring perches, Will, I'd just buy a whole "parts truck" and be done with it. I have a spare body already from the truck that will someday be an SS100, and who knows how many other "spare parts" I'll have before I'm done? I might just go into the toy truck used parts business, like a junk dealer or somethin'.

[Will01Capri]

Agreed. Spare parts truck it is. Means one truck is going 4 link.

[c.rainford73]

I also ordered a GAZ and I saw you can now get the bed for the stock truck as a separate item so i hope they also do that with the GAZ.

The truck looks good, Carl, and I may have to try one of those motors. Too bad you can't turn off that brake sound, eh? I got one of those sound units and i might use it in a future project, but for these trucks I'm sticking with the mikro. Did that supplex show up yet? I was hoping you'd see it Friday or Saturday.

You guys may have seen in another thread that I ordered a 3D printer. Gotta love Black Friday. 46% off.

Thanks Buddy I got the package from you so I'm very happy

[Max-U52]

Finally got a couple escs.

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[AlwynTurner]

First instalment of the axle mounts


Openscad code
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module front_axle_mount () {
difference () {
union () {
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-8.35,0,0]) cube ([ 16.7,17.6,1.4]);
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-8.35,0,6.75]) cube ([ 16.7,17.6,1.4]);
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-8.35,8,0]) cube ([ 16.7,8.2,8.2]);
translate ([0,16.3,0])cylinder(h = 8.2, r = 6, $fn=80);
}
rotate ([0,0,12]) translate ([9.5,4.7,-0.5]) cube ([ 5,18,10]);
rotate ([0,0,-12]) translate ([-14.5,5,-0.5]) cube ([ 5,18,10]);
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-8.35,16.25,1.4]) cube ([ 16,7,5]);
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-9,-0.1,3.4]) cube ([ 18,7.1,5]);
translate ([0,3,-0.5])cylinder(h = 2, r = 1.4, $fn=80);
rotate ([90,0,0]) translate ([0,4,-20])cylinder(h = 15, r = 0.9, $fn=80);
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-1.3,0,-0.5]) cube ([ 2.6,3,2]);
}
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-3,4.5,6.75]) cube ([ 6,3,1.4]);
}

front_axle_mount () ;
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This code is untested so please take it and try it if you wish.

I'll test it when my printer gets here.

Alwyn