Niiiiice :tup:
spent the afternoon doing a proper detail on the truck.
the paint literally felt like sandpaper
:ham:
anyway. the list.
wash/dry
Meguiars claybar
Meguiars polish wax
Meguiars gold class carnauba
due to the color you may not be able to tell much of a difference in the paint but i assure you that it feels like glass now.
so…success!
Looks very nice
Lookin good sir
When does the porterbuilt kit ship?
never lol.
id like to keep my bed usable.
Looks great!
another successful evening
ever since i bought the truck the fuel gauge was stuck on Empty and i finally decided to investigate the situation
so i dropped the tank and everything looked normal
so i pulled off the wire heading to the sending unit (which should be a positive wire) and it was coming up grounded…then i just had to find out where
after tracing the wire from the fuse block back i finally found the short to ground where it was pinched on the frame above the rear spring.
so i cut out and replaced the broken wire and BAM!
BAM
maybe i watch too much roadkill?
they have some cool stuff coming up with the Mazdarati. which is another sweet truck. Muscle Truck trumps all though. (pun kinda intended)
I actually lust for that LS7 G10 van they built on HotRod Garage
Hell yea, I love that show.
damn, I live/work 20 miles from their shop.
el segundo?
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tonights task was changing out the rear diff oil and inspecting the new rear end after about 5k of use.
but first these shitty screws have been annoying me and i stopped at the local ACE hardware and swapped them out for stainless
and now the rear end
everything looking great inside.
didnt take a final pic of it all buttoned up since it was dusk by that time but here is an extra ‘before’ pic for you to pretend that i did.
1821 E Dyer Rd, Santa Ana, CA 92705
where did you come up with that info?
I used to live less than 5 min from there.
I just street viewed it and it doesn’t look like the place ive seen in episodes
Google led me to here: http://www.enthusiastnetwork.com/ten-unveils-new-office-tech-center-santa-ana/ so I went with it. The el segundo location is 7 miles from work and the carlsbad location is 14 miles from home. haha.
After some more street viewing I think the roadkill shop might not be any of those places though.
I still cant believe you commute from SD county to LA county every day
so ive been looking for replacement wheels with more of an old muscle era look.
i still plan on grabbing a set of rally wheels but my project this week was rescuing a set of old Cragar SS wheels.
found these of course on craigslist.
2- 15x7 with 2.5" of backspace
2- 15x10 with 4.25" of backspace
i also picked up some good condition used rubber on craigs site.
rears are 265/70/15 while the front tires are 215/70/15
i should have taken more pics but i always forget…or have greasy hands
anyway this is what i started with.
i would say there was one rear wheel that was worse than this but most were about this clapped out.
i did a quick 10 min cleanup using WD-40 and 0000 grade steelwool then a quick coat of chrome polish and here are the results
not too bad.
however, the real problem with these wheels (like most old Cragar wheels) is that the center is aluminum and its real corroded and the chrome is smoked beyond repair/even flaking off in spots.
then came the fun part of removing severely dry rotted tires and installing the “new” craigslist rubber.
i didnt take any pics of the process but i did it all without a tire machine.
it certainly took a bit to break the beads but its kind of satisfying doing it the old fashioned way.
once i got done mounting and balancing it was time to put them on…
so once i did my final torquing a lug stud snapped off and a slew of expletives began spewing from my mouth.
but i guess i was “lucky” that it happened now and not on the road somewhere.
i ended up buying two new studs from a place right down the street and slapped one back in on my lunch break today.
the real problem is that i was already down one Cragar specific lug and now a stud is broke off in this other so looks like only the rears are going on.
its not a huge issue for a few reasons.
-the current lug/washers are rusted and well worn
-bought a new set of 20 lugs and washers for $22
-bought a set of 4 center caps on ebay for $20 since im missing the two for the front wheels
-going to the Barona drag strip antique drags this sat and i can just look the part LOL
so here is how it looks now with the big meat in back
Looks good, what do you think it’ll run? Low 13’s?