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As with my Nanomog, this comes courtesy of young GRUM64. I was offered this piece of classic wizardry for the cost of the freight across the pond and the understanding that it was a non vetted purchase that may or may not have been complete. Clive and i have some corker chats on Lego, V8 cars, motorcycles, horses being sinister sandwich thieves (!?!), and whatever common gripe we both have against the world that day. He suggested i'd likely be quite taken with this set and thought i should have one of the couple he picked up cheap over the years so the plunge was taken. Nerve wracking is the best explanation i can ever offer for waiting to see if international post arrives, what mystical form the previously rectangular prism should have taken on if it gets here, and the paranoia of whats going to be missing from it once its opened and assembly is in full swing. All, for once, totally unfounded and i slept easy in the interim. These naps of ease occurred because it was packaged beautifully by the super groovy Mrs GRUM, sent by trackable registered mail at a postage rate that makes me think she carried it here by plane and then posted it from intrastate, and i was briefed not to expect complete or pristine. Not a lot more one could ask now really is there? Well, maybe perhaps some snow and we're experiencing that down south so it looks like that order got filled too. Not made any giant alterations to it and theres to my count, a total of seven non year specific parts on it (you'll need damn good eyes to spot the last one) but its not too big a deviation from how it started and i can still live with myself. Its not finished of course, but i am for tonight. Let me know what you think. Cheers, Glen. Again, a massive thanks to Clive and the wonderful Mrs Clive. As built post arrival. Very relieved to find it was almost fully complete and everything worked. I had bunged on the grille MK1 by this point and a clear grilletop emblem/badge. Started fiddling with shortly after. Added a grille as the front crankpin being only supported and located at one end whilst in tension from the rubber band seemed an oversight to me. Plonked on a steering wheel as it looked like it ought have one and took no real effort. It's ever so slightly offset from the drivers seat (RHD of course) and doesn't turn or do anything but i console myself that the frippery of the exhaust stacks are as uselessly ornamental and they don't detract from it either. The CowWhacker on the front felt a bit weak so was braced a bit, that were wayward elk that go tiptoeing through the tulips and into the front, don't deform the bullbar whist you're raiding forests of timber in your kenworthesque black pneumatic grocery getter. As i'm in training with it insofar as the pneumatics, and a sticker kit seems extortionate, i colour coded each switch to a ram function and direction. To the lens on each of the red/yellow/green coded items extends its ram to lift/open the claw. To the orange rotates the turntable so the orange triangle swings t'ward it. Once the basics were sorted, i partial stripped it and gave a bit of a scrub to perk it up a tad. Came up alright as far as i'm concerned. With a bit of playing, i found i wasn't happy with the mounting of the rear diff. I added two bushes to the link prop shaft to limit it shifting back and forth too much while maintaining free rotation. I got these two bushes from out of the rear diffs mounting arrangement and replaced them with two grey 1 by 4 bricks and it's stabilized it beautifully (no more clicking of the pinion to ruin the fun of rolling it around or explode the somewhat precious 14 toother of which my stocks are low). At this stage i also flipped both diffs as i like the engines to rotate clockwise when looked at from the fan. As i had a bit of time to kill i also built a highrange gear for it that drops the revs at the crank from 6:1 down to 3.6:1 and makes life a lot gentler on the diffs and universals. If slipped with some care you've also a neutral between. As this counterrotated the engine again, i swapped the diffs back into their original dispositioning and regained the desired crank directional orientation. The gearing is all up the front as i'd no desire to widen that superb stiff chassis and i found nowhere else to put it. As a plus, its easy to reach and operate without inverting the truck and is just simple enough to be darned effective Above is a quick video of piston speed relative to wheel rotation, before and once shifted.
