Swivel Frame Power Wagon Build

[SaVaGe MaN SS]

How did you mount that r2

 

[OlYelr]

The R2 is just mounted by making a bracket from some aluminum angle iron I had laying around...

Thought I would share a few pictures of a little trail ride I did over the holiday weekend on my family land up in Michigan. I got down to the lake and realized I didn't bring my camera :-(, so all I got was a few pictures with my cell phone.

Enjoy!

 

[microgoat]

That's one of the coolest rigs in here.

And the fact that you did it woth so many stock Hi-Lift parts makes it that much cooler "thumbsup"

 

[701 Technique]

This is one of the coolest most original builds I have ever seen, what else do you have in the works:lol:

 

[bmuzz1]

Beautiful build, Love the frame!"thumbsup""thumbsup"

 

[nakata]

:shock: "thumbsup"

 

[K Riccardi]

I think yours works better than the 1/1."thumbsup"

 

[F-150Highlift]

This is by far the best original idea I have ever seen. What a job! It works just like the 1:1 version, to the tee. Great Job!!

 

[OlYelr]

I wanted to thank you guys for all your comments, and give an update on a couple changes I've made. I've been running it quite a bit lately, and it's been doing great.

One of the changes is that I am just running a limiting strap on the swivel now. The shock worked great, but it's just too crowded on this chassis, and I swapped it out to make it easier to mount the ESC. The limiting strap does a fine job of making sure the swivel doesn't swivel too far, and the dampening effect wasn't that important to it's performance.

The next change is addition of a full size spare in the bed, along with a bunch of feed sacks I picked up at Hobby Lobby for $0.99. It needed a load, and it helps hide some of the huge ugly flat lexan bed.

I just love the "flex" shots on this truck:

"thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup"

 

[mir4dor]

Nice to see it's still alive "thumbsup"

Are you sure there's no room for a dropped (lexan) bed ?

 

[sh0rtlife]

that thing is soooo sexy!!!

i second that..no way to have a "real" bed on it? or atleast a partialy dropped bed?

 

[OlYelr]

Nice to see it's still alive "thumbsup"

Are you sure there's no room for a dropped (lexan) bed ?

I probably could, but the battery holder is under the bed right now. I'd just need to relocate the battery lower so I could drop the bed. I probably should do that anyway to lower the CG.

 

[BigSmokinGun]

Very nice. Found this thread back in the Spring when I searched for PW builds. No idea a swivel frame even existed. Built my frame following yours. Built a worm-drive winch for the front. Scratch building the body. Bed is almost done in styrene. Was going to do the cab in styrene also but preliminary tests have shown heat-forming styrene to be tricky.

Keep up the great work.

 

[andrwplsn]

this is the sickest thing i have ever seen, love the pw.

 

[jeepjames87]

Just found this, looked through the hole 8 pages, what a kick a$$ truck. Just too kool."thumbsup"

 

[GUSANOTE]

Good job my friend.........here in venezuela is´s verry dificult find good pices to do jobs like that.

Saludos from Venezuela.

 

[blukon98]

That's bada$$!

 

[shadowtrucker95]

I agree that is an awesome truck, but did anybody see that the last post until earlier today was almost exactly 1 year ago?

 

[66sprint6]

Whoah ok sweet...finally get to see this swivel frame idea in action...might need to make one of these sometime!!!
Matt

 

[701 Technique]

Glad to see this thing build is still going! Haven't seen it in awhile.

Looks better every time"thumbsup"