A Dremel tool was used to mill off the truck mounting pad and make it even with the surrounding bolster (above left). This side- by-side comparison shot (above right) shows the before and after modifications made to the frame. The truck mounting pin will be replaced by a 2-56 screw. This view (below left) shows the com- pleted frame. Note the white .020.″×188″ styrene strip spacers
above the truck bolsters. The 2-56 screws go through these and into the truck bolsters. A side view of the fuel tank (bottom left) shows where the rear tab has been removed and filed smooth. Once the shell is placed on the frame the missing tab will not be noticed. This underside view of the rear of the shell (below right) shows the styrene L stock which will sit on the rear of the frame.
shell to ride high in the front. I re- moved the two rear tabs but now need- ed to somehow stabilize the shell and keep it from teetering back and forth on the remaining front tabs. The solution was to glue a piece of Evergreen L-shaped styrene to the in- side rear of the shell. With this in place, when the shell was placed back on the drive this plastic piece sat on the rear of the frame. The front half of the shell then came down and rested squarely on the pilot. With everything sitting
level and
frame. While the shell had been low- ered, it still didn’t sit level. After scratching my head for a while and trying to figure out what was wrong I found the answer. The issue
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was not in the frame, but in the fuel tank. The tank has four mounting tabs that hold the shell onto the chassis. The two rear tabs sit ever so slightly lower than the front ones, causing the
riding a bit lower, I drilled and tapped a hole for a 2-56 screw in both bolsters to replace the truck centering pin. (The pins were removed when the boss on the underside of the bolster was milled off.) Next, I added a short piece of .020″×.188″ strip styrene to the top of the bolster and drilled a 2-56 hole in the center of it. This made up for some of the material that was milled off so
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