79 Ford Flatbed Dually Pulling/Trail Truck

[thisdougsforu]

This scx10 wears many body and tire combinations but with our club starting to pull a scale 1.9 pro-stock diesel truck class I wanted to turn it into an old Ford stroker (slapping a newer powerstroke into an old 70's ford truck is fairly common on the 1:1 pulling circuit).

Here is the truck before I started chopping.



I had a buddy machine up some spacers and picked up another pair of proline TSLs.





I'm not running a pin through the hex on the outside tires as they spacer/locknut tightness combined with rubber-rubber contact make the outside wheel impossible to turn by itself. I've tested it out quite a bit and it works great!


With the dually portion now done, I started off by chopping the bed off and then lopping the upper part of the honcho cage off to give me a flatbed platform. Here it is with a lexan mockup of the bed and with the truck cab without bed.




I next mounted the cage to the cab and and cut out a thin pinewood flatbed (with a sure handed friends assistance!). I just got it all sanded down and mounted.





The hard work is now done! I still have to build and mount a custom pulling weight box on the front as well as put a short stack coming out of the hood. The pulling weight box is going mount to the stock bumper mounts so I can put the honcho bumper on for trailing and easily switch it to a weight box for truck pulling!

More updates to come as I get the other stuff built.

[Bronco2x84]

looks great

[CamposZac96x]

looks good bro

[XJrob]

I like it, only thig missing is a ih sticker in the back window

[téosrc]

Nice! I love the flat bed.

I did the same to mine, except I used individual pieces of wood.
newdeck9.jpg photo by teosrc | Photobucket

[thisdougsforu]

Originally Posted by téosrc

Nice! I love the flat bed.

I did the same to mine, except I used individual pieces of wood.
newdeck9.jpg photo by teosrc | Photobucket

That looks great! I'm going to be adding some scale accessories to my bed. Just for the heck of it, here are a few of the other trucks in our clubs diesel class. We are building a dirt pulling track next weekend.

Here's a guys top kick puller that's almost done.



Here's another friends F350 puller -

[mjc597]

I really like the old ford cab with the flatbed/dually combo..looks great !! Looks good with or without the flatbed on it !