Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

That came out looking great!

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

got way ahead of myself and tried my hand at making some side panels. definitely a learning curve here lol. bought some 1/8" board, vinyl wrap from hobby lobby, and some upholstery spray. not show perfect but I think they will be ok. using rivnuts to hold them on so I still have to cut the holes in the vinyl

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

got the side quarter glass in this morning after painting the window frames yesterday.

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

tired of my gauges and switchbox flopping everywhere so i decided to work on the floor to get the console in. sanded it down and just brushed on a quick coat of rustoleum flat, then kilmat. my carpet came in as well but was sent the high hump so im in the process of swapping those out, but at least i can get to work on the console while i wait for the carpet

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

Can't wait to see the finished product, Are you going to mount speakers in it too?

LockDoc

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that's the plan leon. I bought some 6.5" speakers and they look like they will work. trying to see if I can recess them some. this box is super close to the gas pedal...made it a tad too wide lol

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

rounded over the front section, still need to cut the speaker holes. also waiting on my cup holders and colored zip ties. I'm using the zip ties to color code the airlines when I pull them from the switchbox so I know what goes where when going back together.

looks like I will be stuck painting the outside of the box, and wrapping the cup holder and gauge areas with that black vinyl I used a few posts above for the rear panels.

wondering if I should spray the box with the same color as dash...or maybe a flat black? I'm leaning towards black, I don't want it to draw a lot of attention lol

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

Dash red or the color of the seats.

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i think im going to try and wrap the entire thing and hope for the best..heres what i have so far. stille some sanding and trimming but its just about done before the wrapping

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

Looks really good!

Are you going to glue it on? I was having problems with the upholstery on one of my cars and someone on here said not to use any spray glue except automotive vinyl top adhesive. That is what I used and I never had any more problems with it.

LockDoc

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i bought some spray adhesive from hobby lobby when i got the vinyl for those rear pieces i made. supposedly its made for this type of stuff so we will see. i wrapped the top section just now and it looks decent. i need to figure how to wrap the actual console, that looks tough lol. i REALLY dont want to paint it

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

Good luck with it.

LockDoc

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something like this...

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

Yeah, that looks good. Making good progress.

LockDoc

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cupholder part wrapped. need to head to hobby lobby tomorrow for more vinyl. they were out when I went today

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well, had to redo it because my planning didn't go so well lol. also the wrapping didn't come out as I wanted..but hey, I guess it turned out OK. the wood portion came out great, but the wrapping did not. I went ahead and wired up my radio and speakers and also ran the wiring to the future rear speakers.

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I don't know, it looks pretty good to me....

LockDoc

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I'm with the Doc on this one! Nice work.

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thanks guys. working on getting the carpet settled in and mounting the seats back in it. hope to have it done by the weekend so I can replace my carrier bearing and take it for a cruise. here's a shot of the little $30 bluetooth radio I found on Amazon, mounted it in the glovebox. nothing special

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sooo, been a little busy lately. got the carpet fully in, got the seats all bolted down (need to make one more point of mounting for those rear seats), also wired up and made my rear speaker mounts. also replaced the damaged carrier bearing for a beefy billet one.

i took a peak of where about i ride at with the ride height, and im not sure if this is how far the splines should be out on the slip shaft..any thoughts?

Re: Project 67 DRGNWGN - 67 Burban!!
 

No, you should never at any time see that blue spline coating. Dana Spicer uses this coating to protect the spline from metal to metal contact and it helps extend the life of this slip joint. Also the blue coating should never be in the section of your slip yoke that has the grease zert. Right now you are way over extended on the slip.

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when i raised it all the way up to full height it looked like it didnt even move. i obviously cant see if it moves when i air it all the way out unless i had a lift to put it on. is my driveshaft too short? I had it custom made based on the measurements the driveshaft guy had me do

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It's way too short. I used Denny's Driveshaft to build my race truck shaft and its perfect. See attached pdf on how they recommend measuring for a driveshaft.

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yup, I checked out Dennys before getting mine made. probably should of went that route lol. I think I will call the guy up and explain I need it lengthened a few inches now. hopefully he won't charge too much.

should I add just enough to cover ALL the splines, or about half way..or?

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It's hard to tell because I have no idea what components were used to make up this shaft. When I was building drivelines, we always built them, so the installed length was at mid-slip. Let's say you had a 4-inch slip, we would have it set up 2 inches each side. That way the shaft had equal travel when pushing into or pulling out of the slip yoke.
With the driveline in right now I would measure from center of ujoint cap to center of ujoint cap. This would give you the installed length. And tell your driveline shop this is the installed length, and you want it at mid-slip.

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so here's the deal. pulled it off and took it back to the shop who made it. I showed him the picture of it installed and he said it's fine, there is a lot more of the shaft still in. so I slid it out until it almost came out. so, with it installed there is about 2 1/4" of slip showing, leaving 4" of slip still in the tube. when I slide it almost all the way out, you can see the slip splines are almost 7" long.. I hope I am making sense.

1st picture is completely collapsed, 2nd is all the way open (I think, didn't want it to slide out). and from the pic a few posts up you can see how much is showing with it installed

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and this is the trans side yoke. you can see from the clean part how much is in the trans. he said this is also fine because there is still about 1.5 - 2" left of slide room

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One thing to consider when making decisions on the transmission yoke spline engagement is how far are the splines recessed inside the tailshaft of the transmission as well as are the splines full length inside the yoke or are the recessed or not machined completely to the bottom of the bore?

Here's a link to more information on spline engagement from a 4x4 shop. They built my driveline.

https://4xshaft.com/blogs/faq/how-mu...uld-be-showing

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not a whole lot done lately, just driving it here and there. I threw some kilmat on the kick panels and put some carpeted kick panels on with some velcro. I like them! ordered some carpet hold down sills and the 3 door door rubber to quiet it down some. will need them to get the doors right when doing body work anyways.

also pulled the kick panel vents off to clean them up, re gasket, and paint

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Lookin good Kev !!!!!!!!

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I like the carpeted kick panels. Gives it a finished look.

LockDoc

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thanks, they are made by ACC just like the carpet I used...pretty good quality. I rebuilt the vents and put new home made gaskets in and got them back in. just don't be a moron like me and use a drill bit to make the hole for the handle bracket...I ripped a straight line all the way down :(

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Yeah, you need to use a small soldering iron or hobby wood burner tool to make the holes in loop carpet. That's too bad that happened.

LockDoc

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ya I should've known. oh well, I can always order another down the line, they weren't too expensive.