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Josh,
The radiator came from Entropy Radiator. If I recall the radiator, fans and wire harness/relays were all sold separately. I have not used them yet but they appear to be well built. Others here have said good things about their products. Their number is 773.295.1325 You can also find them on EBAY

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Thanks Jarros44sr
It is better. I would like better still but I think I’ve reached my breaking point. Time to move on or I’ll never get to drive this thing.
Keeping a build thread going is keeping me going. Not sure why but that’s that so I’m going to try to keep it on page one till I’m driving it. Then I’ll do my best to post as many family trips to as many different ice cream shops as possible.

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Tp85
This picture shows what the filters are all about. Really low tech. I chose to go with a pressurized tent because I felt it would be safer to run fresh air past the fan motor as opposed to solvent rich air as an exhaust fan. You can see my fan probably wasn’t intended to be used to exhaust anything potentially flammable. This created two negative issues. The first is I do get some stink and dust in the rest of the garage because the tent is not air tight. The second problem is when I open the door to get out of the tent it depressurizes and the ceiling collapses. My fix for that was I added a small work surface for mixing paint or clear and a chair for sitting between coats. I just don’t exit until the final coat has flashed so when the ceiling does fall anything that may fall with it won’t fall into fresh clear. I would have done things differently if this was to be a long term item.

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This picture just shows how the ceiling looks when the fan is running and the tent is pressurized.

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Your hard work is showing in the panels reflection. Nice paint booth, You set the Bar high for the home garage Painter.

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I had a little time today so I worked on the rear brakes. Mostly because the axle had been apart and in front of the garage door that I needed to get through but also because I finally had all the needed pieces. I used brackets from captain Fab. I am very happy with the quality and fit and would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for a bolt on application. The only machining necessary would have been to the axle at the pilot to accommodate the smaller ID of the rotor. Unfortunately my axles were pretty chewed up so they were also replaced. The replacements from Moser were ordered with the correct size pilot. Needless to say I was happy to get everything together and have no clearance issues between the caliper and wheel. Everything will come apart again for paint now that I know it all works together.

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thanks for the paint booth details. i might need to do something similar.
tom

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Great Paint, Love this truck.

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Stumbled on your build and my mind is totally blown!

Great job on the paint, paint booth and everything else you touched!

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Thanks all for the kind words.
So a little catch up since my last post. I got another batch of parts sand blasted and coated them with black epoxy and two coats of satin black enamel.
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After the first group dried I hung them up elsewhere and did another batch the same way. You can see my floor progressively getting darker.
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My tent doing its job and containing most of the mess.
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Not real happy with this to say the least.
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After all the black parts were moved I thought I’d give the tranny a face lift as well. It has been rebuilt but didn’t look like it. It just got a spray bomb.
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After all the black parts cured for a week I started putting things back together and hopefully permanently this time. I also cleared coated the aluminum differential cover and painted and cleared the rear calipers.
First I replaced all the suspension bushing with grease-able units from ORD. I was very happy with fit and someday hope to test functionality.
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I hung all four springs including larger heavy duty front shackles also from ORD.
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And tonight I reinstalled the axles. Put the diff cover on and assembled one rear brake assembly.
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I reversed the calipers or put the left on the right so the bleeder would point down rather than up. Other than the bleeder I didn’t see any difference from one to the other. Can anyone with more knowledge than me explain why I should not reverse the two calipers?
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Bleeders should always be up, so the air has a place to go. Up and out, as it were. Sorry!

Ps- you gotta hurry, I can't wait to see all these pretty parts in action!
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Sorry if I missed it, but what paint did you use for the frame and suspension bits?

It looks really awesome.

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air will get trapped in the caliper and you will have spungey brakes. the bleeder always goes at the highest point so you can get the air out.

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And that’s why I subscribe! Thanks for the input guys. I thought I saw an opportunity to make bleeding a bit cleaner. Oh well. The wrong has been righted.

Nothing special on the frame and axles, just epoxy primer and satin gloss black acrylic urethane single stage paint.

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I use clear plastic tube and a painters pail. Pop a hole in the pail by the lip interference sized for the hose and insert approx 2-3 ft of hose. Warm the hose with a heat gun to relax the curl in it. Put the bucket on the floor and pop the hose on the nipple on the caliper. Bleed brake. Cool part is, you can see how much air is in your fluid. Works fer me! Looks great! Hose available at OReilly's.
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Any opinions about using silicone brake fluid rather than the typical DOT type?

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Little more progress today. Nothing beyond routine maintenance type stuff like seals, bearings, pads and rotors but progress.

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Best part… I have a roller! And this time around it should stay together.

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It wont ruin that beautiful paint you laid down, plus it wont hold moisture. Im thinkin of using it, if i ever get there

Nice work!

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Man, that's a great build. Just read the entire thread and I know it must feel like forever, but you're doing GREAT work. I've been trying to work on mine as a daily driver and it just doesn't cut it. The paint color is really nice. Is the top going to match? No one ever answered Tony's question about the low back seats on the other green truck. Those looked awesome...

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More progress this weekend. I ran all new brake line from inline tube. Fortunately I didn’t dump my old lines because inline doesn’t supply ANY documents to help determine what goes where. I am still looking for pictures or a diagram showing which holes along the frame rail are to be used for the mounting clips. Speaking of clips, I’ll be using the originals because what came from inline was not right.

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I did a very quick and simple project of junk to helpful. A caliper, axle shaft, 1 ½” PVC, light fixture and a couple of bolts, nuts and washers. Fasten the PVC to the light, slide the PVC on the axle and plug it in. Very stable but with a small foot print mobile light. Worked great while buffing,

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I also finished up wet sanding and buffing. I had put finishing the quarters off as long as possible. Once they were finished I couldn’t resist seeing what body on frame would look like. I was also anxious to see how the tire was going to line up with the wheel well as I had the centering pins moved back two inches when the leaf springs were made. I think all turned out OK.

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Oooweeeeee! Awesome! I like your light fixture, too. I may have to do one myself. Truck is gorgeous, I love the wheels and color.
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Nice Nice NICE !
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My first attempt at posting a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xMnuZlRNU

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Ok, that didn’t work. Any way I was curious and I have always wanted to do this. Not a beast but it’ll do... FOR NOW:devil:
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That oughta be fun! Hold them cones, kids!
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