[jarrodblake]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

Congrats on getting her to run. That is always an exciting step.

Thanks! It was. I got it to move under it own power. Now I Just need to make it drivable.

Originally Posted by cornerstone

Ya gotta love those milestone days! It makes up for months and months of nose to the grindstone work...

It makes me feel like its almost done, unfortunately I'm back at the grindstone... the well grinder. I just cut off the dovetail to make it removable and I'm going to be spending a lot of time with the grinder.

After I got it running I installed a power steering cooler as I am running hydroboost and it needs a little more cooling. That said I went a little overboard on the cooler I bought the biggest trans cooler I could find, the trans cooler I used is rated to cool a truck with a (GVW (GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT) RATING of 26,000 LBS. It is 15 1/2" LONG 10" HIGH 3/4" THICK )
I think it should be adequate for my power steering.

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Intermission garden update. Sometime last month I added gourd trellis to two of the beds. If I can remember I will add a updated pic, Things are getting out of hand the cucumbers on the trellis completely took it over. Unfortunately the summer squash cross pollinated with the zucchini on the other trellis and grew these monster cross breeds but they are inedible. And the tomatoes have become a forest.

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Back to the truck. I bought a cheap air ride setup, I mainly wanted it for the compressor and gauges. It came with a 3 gallon tank but it is too small for my monster bags, they hold a little over a gallon each.

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I made a bracket for the compressor and tank I made it so it can hold up to 4 air compressors.

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I also bought a set of stock cummins radiator hoses they were a little too short but it worked out as I needed to reduce the outlet sizes anyways.

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Now that is runs and moves under its own power I pulled it in to the driveway and pressure washed the bed a removed all the wasp and mud dauber nests.

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I had to rearrange a few things but I got it to fit in the garage with a few inches to spare. It was good timing to as at the time it was in the upper 90s for a few weeks.

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I cut the railing off

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I removed the ramp storage bracket and burned the license plate Thankfully I needed to get a new one anyways.

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I had to reseal the vacuum pump.

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I reused the railing to make some sides to attach some trailer jacks to, to make installing and removing the dove tail eiser.

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And it's free!

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Now I can walk around the truck in the garage

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I don't know what kind of monster did this or why but the welded two c channels and a piece of rectangle tube to the end of the frame. Nothing attaches back there, and then they cut the top half off because it hit the dove tail. I cleaned it up a bit and made them all sit flush.

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I also cut out all the centers as I am going to move them down as I want to run wood in the center of the bed.

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Today I installed a second gen 24 valve intake manifold plate to move the intake forward to clear the brake master cylinder.

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