I’m finally building the AVF club Gun truck after fooling with their Paladin off and on for a year. I am having fits already with the axels and suspension and I am certain it was not this hard with their regular 2 1/2 ton I built. They have you trying to mount the real dual axels on the one side first with nothing holding the whole mess but the small dog bone linkage.
The one kit I can’t find the instructions I always save is the AFV club 2 1/2. Does anyone know of a link to them? I am certain the frame and axel installation followed a much more logical assembly than this one.
Thank you! Dang, it’s nearly exactly the same. Either I had found a way to work around it or I had far more patience six years ago or whenever I built the last.
Hey, since when do we follow the instructions literally?
I have both those kits, too - but I didn’t get around to building neither, yet…
But I think I’d complete the frame first with all the hardware cought in between the rails (the “dogbones” are not!), then I’d probably add the camelback springs (maybe without glueing them first) and then the axles with the short shaft between them, and then the “dogbones” last.
Anyhow - good luck with your gun truck and I’m lookin’ forward to seeing some pictures! Have a nice day