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Took some shots at full droop tonight:
Also picked up the California Black and Gold license plate I ordered a while back. It's one of the very few cool car things they've ever done here in CA, home of CARB, Smog Checks and crap like that. You can order your plate in 1960s style black and gold, in either random number/letter issue or personalized.
New ToDo List: In no particular order, Deaver leaf springs, King Bypasses, with HM Hangers and shackles in rear. Install Race and CB Radios, and GPS. Upgrade brakes w/14" Kit. Robbie Gordon 20"x9" Wheels with 37" BFG KO2s, Install Detroit Truetrac Differentials and new ring and pinion gears 4.56s. Install Glassworks Unlimited Bedsides then Paint shell, fenders and bed sides to match cab. Line-X bed and around wheel cutouts. Build new Tube and Plate bumpers, install new aux. lighting.
OK, so I was messing around doing the inner fenders to keep the coming rain and mud out from the engine compartment and inside the fiberglass fenders and painted the HM logos om the LT kit.
Used some 3/16 ABS sheet to fill in the gaps. Used the heat gun to do a little forming. Wish I had the PVC conduit heater we used to use to when I was an electrician. I would have heated the whole piece and formed the entire thing slick as u know what.
A cool trick I learned years ago is to get some spray wax, like what motorcycle shops use to quick detail bikes in the showroom. While your front setup is still nice and clean, spray it on everything and wipe it down. Do it a couple times to get a good coating and most stuff will rinse right off. Makes it very easy to keep all that expensive hardware looking fresh.
Went by an upholstery shop yesterday and made an appointment to convert my passenger 60 seat to a 40 to go with my drivers 40 seat. Said it would take most of a day, no problem. About the same money as a bone yard bucket, but much nicer and cleaner. My truck barely has 50K on it and the passenger seat has hardly been used, and is very clean.
So I went and picked up a center console out of a '99 Navigator or Expedition (it has plastic "wood" around part of it) to put between the two 40/40 seats. Going to mod. it to fit Lowrance GPS, race radio, trans temp gauge and some switches. It's the wrong color, but I'm going to be doing so much tweaking on it, that a big part of it was going to have to be painted anyway.
I'll post some pics after the seat gets done in a couple weeks.
Trying to figure out what else I can put into the new to me, old center console.
1. GPS
2. Race Radio
3. Trans Temp Gauge
4. Fog, Driving and Pencil Beam Light switches.
5. a couple 12V outlets
6. maybe a small inverter with 120V outlet?
7. Move the sub-woofer?
8. CB radio?
9. USB outlets from stereo
10. Gun safe?
Anyone have any other ideas? It has a couple cup holders I'm going to try to keep.
Thanks, I wish I did all the work myself, but I've had great guys working on it.
The muffler is actually a Flowmaster Super 40 Series Delta Flow 2 In, 2 Out, part#8525454 and it sounds and works great. I've got it set up as a true dual with the "crossover" being the muffler itself. It's load enough to sound kinda mean, especially at full throttle, but just quiet enough in the cab (no drone) for long freeway stints. Highly recommended!
10-08-2015, 01:26 AM
