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Decided to spend some more time smoothing the firewall while we clean and collect parts...got the CPP grand slam kit in along with a couple PRP seats :metal:

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looks great ..are you putting in a 5 point harness

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Holy cow !! Christmas came early! Nice stuff

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No, too much hassle. We may install a simple 4 point, but lap belts at least. I neglected to omit the crotch hole when we ordered up the seats :waah:

Yea, hopefully the wife will forget about all this by then...:lol:

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Finished up the firewall, not perfect...but good practice for the boy and I! :metal:

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and dropped the drivetrain in...

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that looks so sweet..are you going to paint the rest of the truck that buie?

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Thanks man! I would like to paint it back to the original balboa blue (what we've used on the firewall), but I'm gonna let the wife have the final call on that...it'll be a blue/siver of some sort though.

Still collecting parts and knocking items off of the "list" :lol::lol:

Ran the fuel lines from tank to carb (filter/electric pump to 3/8 Al. hardline to braided 6AN up through filter/regulator to carb), and ran lines/shaft for the ps.

Also picked up a double pass Al. radiator we will drop some electric fans on...

Going slow...too damn hot around here to stay motivated!

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very slick!! i love when a motor looks fast just sitting there:lol::lol: great stuff and the air cleaner is perfect

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that motor looks beast!!!! good stuff keep it up

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Coming along quickly, man the big block rocks, what brand airbreather is that, it's nice with 2 large openings.

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Long day/night/morning of working on things and a couple quick before and after pics! Well, I guess a couple of during and during pics, but you get the idea. :lol:

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Thanks guys, we appreciate that!!:burnout: We can't wait to fire this one up!




Hey, thanks! We found the air cleaner at Spectro after lots of seaching. The one thing that bugs us is that on their website, it's shown with nice tig welds that would have coordinated well with the valve covers...the one that showed up was mig welded :waah:

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Worked on getting the front end together last night/this morning (lots cooler after the sun goes down). :lol:
We were doing pretty good having pressed in new lower ball joints and installing the a-arms...until we figured out that CPP had sent us some goofy lower ball joints that were a good 1/2" short. Fortunately, O'Relly's had the right Moog joints in stock...pics show the difference and my boy going from not so happy to happy again as he assembled, disassembled, and assembled again:lol::lol:

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We hogged out the holes on the crossmember and upgraded to the later model, much larger, LCA u-bolts...big difference.

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After the initial stumbling around,everything pretty much fell into place. We also cleaned up and installed a 1 1/4" swaybar off of a later model 1 ton...hoping that it will help tame the mean lean the burbs have :lol:

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looking good, have you fired that bad boy up yet

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Looking good man .... That BB looks amazing in there !
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Thanks ya'll :metal:

The engine was broke in a bit on a stand while the valves were adjusted in, but haven't fired it since then. Maybe in a couple weeks though, waiting on a few more parts to come in.

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"We also cleaned up and installed a 1 1/4" swaybar off of a later model 1 ton...hoping that it will help tame the mean lean the burbs have"

What is this mean lean you speak of? 1st I've heard this mentioned, but I'm still quite new to the burb world. Thanks

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mean lean = excessive body roll

just our opinion ;)

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man that motor looks like it is suppost to be there, i love the blue and silver combo, thats what i'm going to do to mine, just a different color blue then yours, lol!! its going to be fun to drive and show off, keep it up!!

i've been really slammed at work and havent had time to get back with your son about the grille lately looks like it will be atleast 2 more weeks and i might need to send money and have him ship it to me, if i cant make it up there, lol!!

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Hey Chad, good to hear from ya! The plan is to have a fun runner for the family, hope it comes out that way.
No problem on the grill, it's not going anywhere...just let us know what you need done.


Still knocking items off the list. We cleaned up the driver's side inner fender (welded/smoothed holes/rust) along with the rad support...shot some semi-gloss black and started refitting them together.

We decided to drop a tubular, finned, tranny cooler under the rad support(behind the front bumper)...so we did some ventilating in preparation:lol::lol:

Also got tierods/centerlink/idler all in, but damn, that centerlink was only about 1/8" off the crossmember:uhmk:...so steering is pretty much done:metal:

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oops, forgot pic of inner fender...

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Looking great! Thanks for the updates on your build.