What did you do to your truck today?

I second that emotion... I mean question

 

I think you need some airbags to level that thing out!

 

scored some 250# springs off of flea bay and installed them
also made some shackles and raised the rear 2 inches

i guess i'm not fat enough to compress the springs much

 

lol that's looking near the limit

 

Yeah I heard the roads are just complete crap. I'm in Fargo now where It's 60 and nice. Back home I guess they still have snow the roads are starting to flood over and all the nice oil trucks make the roads nice and smooth. You can imagine 50-60 trucks going by every day on gravel roads that are completely saturated. It kinda makes me not wanna go home for a while.

 

nice day in ontario!

finished up the back end of the truck today.....spring might finally be here

still have to do the mud flap steel...looking at the picture i can see some light coming through the bottom of the tailgate looks like i missed some white ( but i didn't)

 

hey longview, what kind of tires do you have?

 

tires

i have 2 sets:
my on road tires are goodyear nordics (155/80/13)
off road are 6/12 tractor tires

 

Began my quest to gather parts for my Mitzi today. I have a distributor on the way!!! NOW, where am I going to find the cheapest Dist cap? 96 u42t

 

La di da da da

I need to change the dizzy coil wire and get a tune up with new front pads. op:

Might be rocking a new van too.

 

more progress

painted the engine cover and back of cab, then installed aux lights (not wired in yet) and re-installed aluminum tool box ( after being painted)...... after looking at this picture...BOY DO I NEED TO CLEAN THE GARAGE! but no time for that i have to work on the truck

 

Put my big truck to work!

Hauling junk, heavy wood and just being very handy.
That's all 10 foot lumber on there, 108 2x6's and 12 wet 6x6's

It was a heavy load

 

Awesome! That is quite the haul of wood. Makes me think about trading up. I had 40 2X8x12 and 4 6x6 and I had about 1mm of suspension travel left in the rear lol (granted the tires I have now are 4-5" diameter bigger than stock so there wasn't as much room from tire to bed to begin with anymore)

 

Well think about mine then. (club deal)!

I'm upgrading to a 3 or 4 ton dropside, (cranes are too expensive)

$10,000 for my truck is a good deal and it's in really great shape.

I'm going down a lot for a quick sale

Had it for $13,000 and had lots of calls but we live away from the city so no lookers.
A new one for me will be about $16,000 I think.

I'll put it up for $11,900 next week I think

 

Made a gas can hold down.





Added a junk box for oil, straps, etc. It's an old laundry soap bucket I cut down.


Added a clock to the dash in the factory A/C plug on the passenger side as the radio I have doesn't have one built in. It's not the most convient location but there isn't exactly a 100 places to put one in this thing.



Got rid of the Fast & Furious air filter and went to something closer to a factory setup. Hopefully this one will work better in blowing snow & the carwash.

Went from this:


To this:
I found something that worked in the factory box - I have the part number if anyone needs it. The white disc at the end is a 5" wall cleanout plug. The end is a rubber dog dish from the fleet store. A little aluminum sheet, some 1x1/8 flat bar at the edge where the box was cut and a little pre-filter screen just for good measure. The whole works cost me about $10 & now I have a filter that I can get locally.

 

The white pipe just sat against the stock airbox base & let a lot by. Yeah it was way too open, On a windy night snow would blow in and choke it off. I went through an automatic car wash and it soaked it, It even gets wet at a coin-op wash if I rinse out the wheel wells. It was also really loud. I'm not sure if I lost any power by closing it up or not, It's tough to tell.

 

got my Qa1 springs today. was going to go out side to install them.. and WTF! it's snowing!!!!