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thank you! it was a ton of work but it sure does drive nice!

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Looks great!

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I wasn't sure I was going to like the end result but I am digging it now. Great job

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Thanks guys

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Great job! You made that look way too easy. ;)

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I like it!

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Thanks guys! 300 miles in and only little tweaks to it so far :metal:

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Good work, it turned out great! That picture of you and your buddy sorting the harness out gives me nightmares... I hate electrical work on trucks.

Rg

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thank you, the harness was definitively a lot of work. thankfully my brother is pretty good with wiring so he did almost all of it. I held a soldering iron pretty well lmao.

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That is bad-a$$!
Nice work on all of it. I bet it's fun to drive.

Thank u! It really is. Drives nice and all I wanna do is run stuff over lol
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Got my exhaust finished up last weekend as well as some shocks on the rear end. I didn't particularly like the idea of having a tip out the side but I didn't like the drone of having a turn down under the bed. Im happy with how it looks now that it is done though.
"still has the tailpipe dumped in this photo."
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Almost cant see the exhaust tip
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finally ran out the gas tank that I filled before we put the bed on it and now I cant drive it until we put a fuel fill in. Currently have no way to put gas in it unless we take the bed off lol. . plus side is that the truck has over 300 miles on it and is running like a top! Few little adjustments and a rattle scare on the transmission but turned out it is fine!

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Figured I'd update this since I have been able to drive the truck for a while now. I have about 1300 miles on it and its still running really well. We use it every chance we get.

Hauling sticks of Rebar for a room addition we are working on.
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Hooked up to my brothers 21' toy hauler. didnt tow far but seemed to do well.
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Installed a new pioneer with blue tooth that I got for my birthday!
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Only thing I want to do in the immediate future is to spray the bed to match and get a set of lower control arms to lengthen slightly so I can get rid of the little bit of positive camber it has goin on.
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Nice new radio and it's great to see you using it a lot!

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Thank you. It has been very useful recently. Glad it is running and driving

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Hi, that is a cool build. Do you have more details regarding the tires on your truck? Thinking of going in that direction myself.

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Thank you and welcome to the forum. The tires are Mickey Thompson Deegan 38 Mud terrains. size is 305/65/17. Wheels are Raceline defenders 17x9

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About 2500 miles on her and still running like a champ. Used it to pick up lumber for my brothers addition. Love a truck that can handle whatever you need. Glad we stuck with the 3/4-1 ton suspension.
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Amazing Truck, really enjoyed reading thru your build thread.

Really liked the fact you kept it long bed and lifted it!!!

look forward to seeing more pictures

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Thank you very much. Wish the pictures didn't delete, would be a lot better read but what can you do. loving this truck though. Got to load my bike in it for the first time in a while and I have to say, i love the long bed! :metal:
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Well the truck was about to roll 3000 miles when I started noticing a few weird things. . . I had a very small coolant loss and I thought I traced it back to the steam vent.. but I also noticed that the truck would smoke in the morning but I was being optimistic thinking it was the hot/cold change we have been experiencing.

I rented a tester to check the Head gasket and it tested fine. . also no contamination in the oil. One day when starting it up in the morning it fired cylinder by cylinder, one at a time and ran fine after the initial misfires. . Later that day I turned the key, it kicked back almost like a dead battery. . I tried it one more time since I was stuck at work, it fired and ran fine. . parked it until yesterday when I had a chance to pull the plugs and turn it over with my remote starter. . Sure enough, the very front cylinder on the passenger side was full of coolant. . . hoping to just do head gaskets and praying it isn't a cracked head!

Cant be mad at a $400 junk yard motor thats got me this far but still a little bummed ha.
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worried it might be a crack just based on how much coolant was in the cylinder
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I drained the coolant and waited overnight for the cylinder to completely dry out, gonna fire it up and rush it into the garage instead of having to work in the wood chips in the sun.
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She'll be back on the road soon hopefully.
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Sorry to hear of the issue. Hopefully it is just a bad gasket. Make sure you get new head bolts when you put it back together. These are torque to yield and only good for one use in case you didn't know.

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I will definitely get new bolts after pullin it apart. thanks for the heads up! Praying it is just the gasket as well

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If it is a head, I happen to have a pair of 862s I'm not using I'd sell cheap if you end up needing one.

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very generous of you, thank you. The heads on it happen to be 862 so that would be perfect! I hope I dont need them but good to know that I can get my hands on some if the need arises.