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Obnoxious little orange truck from game files

i found this truck in the game files. I guess it kinda replaces the old Donkk design. It's an obnoxious little beastie. I have it rigged as a semi-tractor with hitches for both semi and full trailers. It is so tiny though that it has no right to pull anything!

Most of the stuff in game files are mockups, they're stripped of most of their functional components and reduced to the point that they have little effect on lag and basically serve as props for the game. To make it functional I basically have to create or deploy a complete suite of running electronics, including some custom designs just to make this build work.

The mockup had a medium motor wedged in there so I tried to make that work, or at least give it a medium motor. I did not have enough space for that. I got that version about half done and started doing road tests and the medium engine was much much too hot for the chassis, it was basically doing wheelies down the runway I was using as a test track, lifting the front axle clear of the ground... That was pretty stupid so I grabbed the original blocks from that part of the design and reverted.

I had to break all of my design rules but I ended up with a dual-small configuration in there. dual smalls are kinda a magic configuration that performs absurdly well. Too well, so well in fact that I have to provide a warning.

WARNING: BEWARE OF 4TH GEAR!! The drivetrain has three gearboxes, (Green) one of which is the reverser. This means that it has 4 gears as shown on the dashboard.

Third gear is a great gear, it can tow cargo containers just fine in third gear. If you shift into 4th gear, with a cargo container, the shift point will be too low on the engine's power band and it will not be able to hold the gear with that load, and will fall back into 3rd unless you are going down hill. This is normal, expect it, it's not a problem, and I didn't try to fix it because you shouldn't be driving that fast fully loaded anyway. Unloaded, however the truck will ** FLY **, and shoot up to close to 200 kph and literally go airborne for hundreds of feet off of hilltops. Worse, there is a very real risk of detonating the engines in that gear. If you are careful and keep the RPM around 500 in 4th gear you will be able to swiftly cover a lot of miles in this thing; purrs like a kitten. Just don't let the thing get away from you!

Update: Made the fuel gauge by the door work and added a fueling port. Also the positioning of the trailer hitch was one unit too far forward for kosher. (Must align with the gap between the two traction wheels.) The old positioning was causing problems with some trailers.