6x6 Wrecker/recovery

[Louisbaby]

I'm not going to bore you with all the inbetween changes etc. I cut and paste the most important from the other forum.

The basic story is, started out it was going to be a Pinzgauer 712K, Then a Unimog, now, a Custom Pajero wrecker/recovery truck.

Pics so far...

First coat of primer...




Ok, so Olive Drab is the color...







And when it was all dry, I assembled it again...





That's the chassis so far...

[Louisbaby]

I had this old broken Pajero body in the box, so I decided to make a military wrecker/recovery truck. I'm going to make a boom at the back that can raise/lower to which I can attach and tow other vehicles...





Doesn't look like much now, But by the end of the weekend you'll see what I'm planning...

[Louisbaby]

The boom I'm planning will be something like this:





I've built this worm drive that will drive the boom up and down, and a winch with be used for the cable...



More soon...

[rik]

this is gonna be friggin awesome. could ya get some better shots of the worm system? i'd love to see it. great job so far

[Postclanker]

You painted e everything man .....

Looks nice, but I wonder why

[rik]

oh, now i see how it will work. wasnt looking hard enough i guess. but i see it now. genius! is that a rc4wd gru?

[halfcab]

Originally Posted by Postclanker

You painted e everything man .....

Looks nice, but I wonder why

it started out to be a military build, dang soldiers paint everything

[Postclanker]

Lol....

You got a point Todd

[Louisbaby]

Originally Posted by rik

oh, now i see how it will work. wasnt looking hard enough i guess. but i see it now. genius! is that a rc4wd gru?

No buddy, it's a HPI GRU.


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[Louisbaby]

Originally Posted by halfcab

it started out to be a military build, dang soldiers paint everything

You have a point there. In our country, our military spend more time painting the vehicles than defending the country. Lol


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[Louisbaby]

Originally Posted by rik

this is gonna be friggin awesome. could ya get some better shots of the worm system? i'd love to see it. great job so far

Well, all I have so far is that what you see. The concept is in my head, but basically the worm drive will move a pivot up and down, in order to raise and lower the boom arm. The boom rope will be driven by a winch. Hope this helps.

[Louisbaby]

Quick mock up of the boom...

[Louisbaby]

A rough sketch of the boom system:

[KJ10]

Wouldn't it look more scale if the boom arm were mounted above the motor and the pivot arm rode on the worm drive?

[KJ10]

Oh, and that frame does look good! At least you masked off the shock shafts.

[Arctic Fire]

I love the everything paint. I watched a rebuil on a willys, and that's exactley what they do. They had to scrape paint from bolts, seams, gaskets. Your paint Job is 100% accurate to a 1940's military spec paint Job. It looks great, makes me want to military paint things.

[Louisbaby]

Originally Posted by KJ10

Wouldn't it look more scale if the boom arm were mounted above the motor and the pivot arm rode on the worm drive?

You know, the more I looked at this thing, The more I agree with you. That didn't even cross my mind while I was envisioning it. Thanks so much dude...

[jebster]

the benefit of doing the boom arm they way he drew it up is it will allow it to extend further out. if you move the support arms on the worm drive it will raise and lower but no extension. either way nice idea. i may steal it for adding a hoist setup to my 6x6!

[Louisbaby]

Originally Posted by jebster

the benefit of doing the boom arm they way he drew it up is it will allow it to extend further out. if you move the support arms on the worm drive it will raise and lower but no extension. either way nice idea. i may steal it for adding a hoist setup to my 6x6!

Thanks for that, I realize that too. Maybe I'll try both ways and report back...

[rockhugger]

how is this rig coming along? I'm digging the worm drive and boom, when I looked at your rough sketch I came up with on concern. Is the worm rod that the boom travels along going to be able to resist flex when it is loaded? Either way if it does flex it's not like it will flex too far I suppose and the nut is captured so it may not be an issue, but I was thinking it may affect the smoothness of operation.