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I was only able to finish up the passenger door panel before a rain storm rolled in.

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After.
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In the truck with the dash.
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Kick panels and A piller trim.

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Nice work! The dash and carbon fiber look great. :metal:

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Thanks!

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Got some more work completed on the interior this past weekend.

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A big THANKS to BGOOD70 for spraying some clear coat on my glove compartment door and ashtray assembly. I will attempt to get those parts installed this coming weekend.

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A few more interior details. I got the ash tray assembly and glove box installed. I started the detail work on the door panels. The goal is to have the upper portion os the door panels match the passenger side trim of the dash.

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Looks nice!

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Thanks.

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Looking real good Chris.
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So about 6 months ago I discovered a crack in the radiator tank. I don't drive this long distances so I made due for a couple of months. I found a good deal on a new aluminum radiator so I picked it up about 3 months ago. Since I am upgrading the A/C, I also picked up a parallel high flow condenser. Both of those items sat in my garage for 3 months because I have been sooooo busy helping out others that I didn't have time to work on my own projects. So this past Saturday I decided it was time.

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Condenser mounted. Still need to work out the lines for this but that will be another day.
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The radiator mounted. Need to reroute one heater hoes and fab up some mounts for the fan shroud.

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Well like most of my projects for this truck... something does not go as well I as I was hoping for and then the time line gets extended or in this case, one of the old parts gets damaged and then I have to get MUCH deeper into my pockets to fix it. In the process of modifying the fan shroud to work with the new radiator, I managed to run a bolt right through the tank on the brand new radiator. So I had to pull it back out and take it to get welded back up. Got that back in and mocked up my new heater hoses and then had to wait a few days for the pipes I wanted to get bent for me. I am not set up to bend 5/8" and 3/4" stainless steel tubing. I got those back and installed and then found a crack in the old intake manifold. So now I guess since the intake has to come out, I will address my oil leaks. Intake is getting replaced. Valve covers getting cleaning, refinished and new gaskets. Oil pan getting cleaned, painted and new gasket. After all of that with a little help Bgood70 got the timing and the carb fine tuned and now Frankie is running smooth.

Here are a few pics of what i was trying to do.

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Here is where I ended up, for now. I know there is a lot more to address but I happy to be making some progress.

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Looking good!

That's a bummer about the new radiator and intake-- 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

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I forgot to include this pic. I found a shop that made these up for me (very reasonable price) so I would not have to pull the radiator back out when I get ready to re-install the A/C system. They have the correct O-ring style fittings on the ends so connecting up the new hoses will be simple.

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So I have been trying to get a radio installed in Frankie. The dash bezel I had was cut for a single DIN radio but it didn't seem to be in the right place to match the cut out in the dash panel. After searching and waiting I found what I what I wanted, a dash bezel out of a late 80's Suburban or Blazer with the factory opening for a 1.5 DIN. So I made this plate to mount to the dash.

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While I was at it, I made some 6x9 speaker brackets fro the rear cab corners.

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And this is how the radio install finished up. Still need to mount the 6x9s and the new brackets.

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Sorry for the rotated pic. When the pic uploads is rotates to this angle.

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I am collecting parts and getting ready for some upgrades. i traded off some old lawn mowers I had laying around in my barn for this 14 bolt FF, 3.73 gears and posi.:metal: Then after hunting salvage yards for a few weeks, I found the backing plates and rotor assemblies I needed to convert my 10 bolt front axle.

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This axle came out of a 99 Express 2500. So I knew I would need to move the spring perches and shock mounts.
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And after a few days of sanding and wire brushing along with grinding and welding... and then some paint, the after pictures.

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I still have some prep work to do but I was excited to share my progress.

Those 13" drums are monsters!

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The detail work looks great!

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im loving the carbon fiber vinyl...interior is looking sweet

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Dash pad looks great. When I started reading this build, I kinda thought, this guy has got a lot of work in front of him. The changing out of multiple body parts, multiple times would doom most projects. Way to stick with it! That is now a really solid rig.

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Thanks guys. It has been slow going at times but I have an ultimate plan for this truck and it will take me a while to get it the way i would like...more to come.

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Still have not been able to start my axle swap but I did get a few more items checked off. I got the rear speakers installed and I had to replace the starter. My original one has been noisy for a while but it still worked, so I didn't mess with it. About three weeks ago the noise got worse and it finally quit working.

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the radio install looks killer!