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Ah, Sitec: Yes, one way or the other I always find out that I invent nothing new. Unfortunately, the support for the shock absorber/spring of the cabin makes it quite rigid and do not allow it to tilt much, at least not the amound needed to settle without risking of bending the shock strut...

Hello, Madoxen: Yes, the air tube over the wheel looks pretty close to it, and it actually stands at neat 6 centimeters above the knobs. I have studied every possible way of getting the air to the rotary valves, and seen many designs even though there is not a lot of functional systems around...

A few days passed and I got bad news; after three attempts the spares for the gearbox could not be sent from Germany. Double ops. What happens with this project that there is always something trying to make it more difficult and frustrating? From cat pee on the engine block to a life...

I had to correct the inclination of the stretched support to make both cabin and shock match perfectly, though it implied a lot of work and time, which I never have too much of. Anyway, it went good and was absolutely necessary, even if the gap was over-corrected and there was a little...

At some moment, the gearbox was completely disassembled. It was quite interesting and amusing sometimes, when things did not get stuck. All the gears and the bearings and the stuff were out. It was just a matter of having the new pieces and the process would be carefully reversed, but there...

One day I will get a lathe of my own. I was stuck with the disassembling of the gearbox, but I followed my brother-in-law tip and took a subtler approach to take the pin of the intermediary gear out, and it worked. After a few efforts and applying the right amount of force from the right...

Next: the AC compressor. Actually, I was never totally comfortable with the support and the belt adjusting mechanism, and there was an oil leak from the engine block that I needed to inspect so I took out the whole thing. I modified the support splitting it in two and made a sliding...

It was, indeed, Neil. Our love to Pat. One day I found this pick up at the shop and she told me, in a whisper, to buy her. She was in a pretty good condition but with some problems with the DPF, very common cause of pain because of the quality of diesel here. It was really a bargain so I obeyed...

The column switch was working properly, but I wanted to be absolutely sure of its reliability. These things are very difficult to repair on the go so I ordered a new switch and replaced the old one that would be stored permanently in the truck, just in case. I was a little tired of dealing...

@ Wazak: Excuse me but I did not get what calculations you were referring to as I, until then, had only guessed, which was not acceptable. @ Sitec: No sir, far from that. The front and rear pivot points are located, according to my measurements in the setting described, 31 and 27...

Once the CTIS was ready and proven, I put my hands and efforts on finishing and installing the doors. I gathered, cleaned, painted and installed the windows and all the components, some of which were in a very painful state. I had many extra components and chose among all the best of them. Some...

Another item that was left unfinished was the CTIS. I replicated the model of support for the rotary valves that I had already chosen and tested before and crafted them until they were ready for priming and painting. I then installed all the components on the wheels and fabricated the...

Took some time and welding skills and obstinacy, but in the end it passed the pressure test and, after repainting, I put it back in place and connected the air circuits again. There is no good system except a sound system, so the original idea was to install a big sound amplifier behind the...

I assembled all the pieces, made lots of checkings, corrections, re-checkings and then, finally, when I was satisfied, painted it all. As I did not like pretty much how it looked I made a simple cover to make it look a little nicer… and that was it. The seats were the former with which the...

I redesigned the subframe according to the obtained data and bought some steel profiles needed for building it, but I had not enough place to work on because at that moment the shop was full of cars, trucks, bikes and tractors. Nothing comes at random, of course, and instead of going on...

Do you remember the torsionometer that I had made for finding the pivoting center of the frame? Well, it was actually not pretty trustable right as it was conceived and assembled so I decided to build another wooden one using more robust timber pieces. The situation at that time in my country...

Hello: Thanks for your words, Madoxen. And no, there still is no courier service from Germany to Chile. Well, now that I have more time available for doing nothing useful but to be at home contemplating my country go downhill straight to poverty, hunger and civil war due to this silly...

Hi, Madoxen: Maybe the floor is not the same on both cabins, but nothing can stop a determined man with a powergrinder on one hand and a welder on the other. In my humble and poor opinion, messing with the brake system is not worthy. Too much to change and adapt and think on, and your truck...

Hello joeblack5: Took me some time to remember and find the place where I stored the attached picture, but your introduction led me immediately to this quite peculiar rig. Just to show that maybe your primary idea of working with a Mog and an Econoline could have been not a bad nor a new...

Hmm... Sitec. I know about a few that have tried to buy this waiting for a bargain, yet quite suddenly a piece of rusted and dusty wreck of a truck becomes the jewel of the crown, zafir and diamond coated best of the richest collection of the most beloved classic masterpieces of german...