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I picked up this trashed T-mag work truck that was in bad shape, parts are hard to find so lets see if we can work around that. so lets make some stuff fit.

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47 thoughts on “Cheap China Truck Challenge

  1. If I was working on that and the way i would fix that radiator support after getting it back in place I would measure from 1 side of the frame to the other side of the frame and weld either a piece of flat stock or angle iron on it then it would hold radiator in place forever and make sure you unhook the battery before welding with obd2 system

  2. Mustie1, is there any part that you don’t have at least fifty or more of in your collection? I certainly wish your were my neighbor. 😁 BTW: you're having far too much fun my friend.

  3. i have an electric vertion of this exsact truck "miles electric truck" any chance i can bother you to count the rear axle ratio for me? and i have cut one of these up it sux a lot of work lol

  4. Hi Mustie
    There are two ways to run two plugs from on double coil. One way is to use two separate coils and two blocking diodes on the primaries. They need to be able to block about 1Kv. The other way this is done is to use a single winding with two plug attachments at both ends of the coil. These usually use a separate primary winding. On this second type of coil, you should always have a plug connected at both ends. If not the coil can be damaged ( I know this because I wiped out a coil on my Honda years ago). This is because there is no separate ground path to the primary. I ended up having to wait for a month to replace the coil. During that time I took two coils and used the diode method.
    Anyway, be careful with double ended coils. Always have a ground path for a coil, like through a plug that isn't used.
    Dwight

  5. Nice truck. You can find the wire that controls the speed cut off and put a homemade frequency divider in it. The speedo will read correctly but the speed limiter will think you are going half or one fourth as fast. Lots of YouTube videos on frequency dividers.
    CD4013BE runs on 3-18VDC.

  6. Rode around in China in one of these quite a bit. Pretty unstable at the higher speeds so be careful. Fun to drive and was surprisingly reliable.

  7. I think you picked the one company that doesn't make a mini truck and the models from most company's is the exact same truck. As far as I can tell there is only three models of it. Honda has the Actually that is different then Mazda scrum, MitsubishiMinicab, SuzukiCarry are all the same and lastly the DaihatsuHijet, and SubaruSambar are the same.

  8. Should have used a generic OBD-II profile I doubt anything special even exists for this. Most cheapy little tools will detect it automatically as PWM, which is GM's protocol. Honda and Toyota are usually using ISO, and most cars 2013+ use CAN. There were some early adopters but I get the impression Mag was not one of them.
    Since Toyota (ISO) failed, why not try GM (PWM) for reading codes?

  9. Dude! You’re killin it! I can genuinely tell you love what you do when you first get it runnin right and bagging on it, the laughter tells it all. Thanks for entertaining and educating us all!

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