Now that the crawl through is finished, all the metalwork is done for it, the time to finish
the very last bit of the body panels, The Front.
That is the last of the fiberglass sheet to finish the body completely. A bit of a milestone i would say.
And so here it is:
When I started thinking about the crawl through, it was a bit daunting, I have looked at other trucks and seen various methods of making the seal.
I knew that I didn't want to have to do anything before lifting the cab, like undo clips or bolts or anything like that. I would simply forget and would end up breaking somthing.
It ended up being a lot simpler than I thought it would be.
I started by making the tunnel out of 3mm steel, this will be fitted into the front of the body, the face of that tunnel has a seal on it that mates with the flange I made to fit into the hole I cut in the cab.
As the Tatra's cab is live mounted to the chassis and not rubber-mounted, it doesn't move, so the seal mates perfectly
Here are a few more pictures.
The toolbox on the left-hand side of the truck is for wheel changing tools airlines and puncture repair equipment.
I have installed a hose reel with a 30Mtr hose and an automated tire inflation/deflation system, so the tires can be pumped without having to sit there holding a button for hours.
