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Yeah i know..
i had an old Oriellys delivery Nissan truck that i lowered and put 6 lug chevy wheels on and a guy at the votech i went to had that truck and it didnt run, he gave me $500 and the 83 for the Nissan, i went over there to get it (only saw pics) and he had the distributor out in the floor board, turns out he was doing a tune up and pulled the distributor :lol: who knows :lol: and i just basically finished what he had started and drove the truck home and he wasnt too happy about that but titles were signed and it was too late. :lol:

It was red and was missing most of the interior, i went to pull-a-part and scrounged up all i needed and sold it for 4200 i think.. its been a few years back

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:lol: sometimes it works that way!

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I agree with Travis that was a pretty slick truck man! Now we just need to get you back over to the square body side. :lol:

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:lol: maybe one of these days ;)

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Aw heck, Scott, what difference would one more project make?:devil:

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um kinda like adding one more mouth to feed and getting a pay decrease at the same time :lol:

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That was a great looking truck! Sucks you had to sell. I have been there too.
Hows the manifold welding going? I had pretty good success welding a bung for the o2 sensor on the 86. I used a tig and stainless filler worked pretty good. Let me know if I can try to weld it for you.

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I'll let you know about some stuff you can try to weld for me! :lol:

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Cool, well i tried to braze it up thats all i can say at the moment, i hope it works ok but we'll see ;)

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No problemo! Just give me the heads up.

I tried to do weld up a inboard manifold last week with no success, then switched to braze....man it looked good but as soon as it cooled the crack got bigger than before. I think its just too thick to fix. I told my friend, your just going to have to buy a new one. Some of the cast metal can be welded, some can't just depends on the metal? Good luck! and don't forget pictures.

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Damn had to bring up pictures.... :lol:
I promise you,you dont want to see pics of my braze job :lol:
I ground the cracks out with a burring bit then used a rose bud and heated the manifold up nice and hot then switched to a brazing tip and got around the crack glowing red and used a nickel rod, it seemed to do the trick but i really dont want to have to do it again so ill probably buy a new one.. :lol:

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I never thought about trying nickel it might have worked? who knows? brass sure didn't.

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It looks as if it sealed it up, i dont know i may try it and see, it didnt take too long to take it off so it wont be as depressing as say my trans if it doesnt work :lol:

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Don't you normally use nickel for cast iron?

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Do you remember how much you had to move the hanger forward? I think there is roughly 18" difference right?

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Nope same as you would have to cut and shorten your frame, 14 in

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I need to go back and check my measurements again. I measured 93" from the center of front bed mount to the rear edge of the frame on my longbed and 75" on a shortbed frame at the junkyard. Of course there is 5" diff behind the rear shackle bracket between the two also.

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There is 14in difference in a long bed and short bed, i measured exactly 14 out and put the brackets there and the wheel is centered nicely.

Now i cut about 18in off the back after i moved everything but the actual rear end movement is 14in.

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Actually, I use a stainless rod for cast when welding the tig and brass with when torching. But stainless has nickel in it so yes I normally use a nickel alloy.

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Gotcha. Thanks for the info.

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I cut out 13" of the frame today.

There is 5" that has to come out behind the rear shackle bracket, so that would add up to 18".

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I would cut another inch out otherwise the wheel will probably not be right in center of wheel well..

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x2


Scotty, where are the pics of the welded manifold? Did you think we would forget? :lol:

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:lol: going to get a new one more than likely, had someone on here offering to sell a couple but no reply yet...

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Well the trans i rebuilt for my 92 Xcab goes into reverse and drive :metal: :metal: not sure if it shifts yet because it doesnt have much gas and i dont feel like going to get any just to drive it and possibly get stranded in the cold... but maybe tomorrow :lol: :lol: