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dusterbd13 · 12-09-2018, 10:16 PM

long time since a legitimate update. Life's been busy, and I have been hard at building a challenge car with my dad. Its coming down the home stretch. Its almost ready for the shakedown runs, and should be absolutely NUTS. Even off the bottle.
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/fo.../134260/page1/

But this is about the truck.
Last week I went to pick something up off the passengers side floor and noticed it was wet. Turned out that the carpet was SOAKED. And the jute underlayment. So, since half measures availed us nothing, it was time to do something about it. Oh, and its back to being my daily. And I HAD to have it on the road for Saturday morning....

Monday I went to work.

20181203_120556 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181203_140910 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

stripped EVERYTHING but the dash. The floors are absolutely spotless. I love southern trucks.

The carpet was really, really bad. Stained, faded, smelly. The jute had started growing mold. Headliner was junk, and the plastics were 50 shades of gray. All were known about except the mold. So, no time like the present!

20181203_131621 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

took everything but the headliner outside, fired up the castrol superclean, stiff brush, and garden hose. You should've seen the stuff coming out of the carpets. It was NASTY.
After:

20181204_092952 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

while that stuff was drying, I did my sound deadening. Again, using the mcmaster carr mastic with about 80% coverage. Then foil backed jute, and the foil bubble wrap from lowes.

20181204_075506 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181204_082138 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181209_112721 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

I tossed the seat and seatbelt back in the drivers side. I also went ahead and finally wired some trailer lights.

20181205_072930 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181206_163519 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

somewhere last week I also finally went ahead and recovered the headliner. And the overhead console. Last week and this weekend are a blur of work, to be honest. Only two days are solid for me at this point (yesterday and today) so take my days as a general timeline. In the process, I finally finished up the backup camera monitor mounting (piano hinge, short screws, and some 3m trim tape), installed the autodim and temp mirror, wired the stuff. Etc.

20181205_073955 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181205_080331 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181205_081517 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181205_083029 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181205_083917 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181205_085732 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181208_162542 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

so, Saturday morning, I backed up to the trailer, hooked up the wiring, and left out for the Albemarle Christmas parade where I was helping my wife's girl scout troop, and also, apparently, the whole countys worth of girl scouts. (had I known ahead of time about that, I woulda gotten a bigger trailer from brother Dallas).

20181208_090617 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

IMG_5434 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

IMG_5449 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

got home from delivering the trailer back, seeing the parents, etc, and went to doing serious work.

First, note that my camera doesn't pick up just how yellowed, stained with nicotine, and bad the interior plastics were. Here's some attempts. (door panel is striking, and the passengers side was the clean one. Its before and after, essentially)

20181205_081633 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181208_144540 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181208_144534 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

I finished cleaning and dying all the interior panels except the passengers door panel. Its still drying.
The door panel, I masked off the pad by your arm prioer to shooting with SEM dye. It tends to make carpet/cloth kind of stiff.

20181208_155343 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181208_162225 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

carpet got the same treatment

20181208_144544 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181208_153001 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

before reassembly (well, too much anyway) I went ahead and addressed the keyless entry and audio. Keyless entry has no pictures, but it was a cheap bulldog unit left over from some other project. Don t remember how much or which project, but it works.

20181209_104019 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

audio changed a bit. First, I replaced the blown 4x6 rear speakers with a pair of 3.5 I inherited somewhere. And I changed the rockford fosgate monoblock amp for a 4 channel kicker that came with my BMW. Two channels of the kicker are running the 6.5 speakers in the doors, and the other two channels are bridged to my sub. I also built an amp mount with one inch wide steel bar stock bent and drilled. Screwed it to the rear cab wall under the trim where it wouldn't pole through to the outside. Ran all my wiring behind the carpet on the rear wall for a clean install. Damn thing sound GLORIUS. Still need to build a different box, as I want the 8 down-firing under the passengers seat. Unused space there, and space is at a premium in the cab. But, were almost perfect.

20181208_162318 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181208_163133 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181209_135454 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181209_150947 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

finished the day with reassembly. And scrubbing the seats. Again, the dirt I got out doesn't photograph well....

20181209_173837 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181209_173908 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

now that the truck is on runflats and has load bags, I needed a compressor to carry with me. The hight dollar, heavy duty 12v compressor from harbor freight, and one of their 50 cal ammo cans, makes it pretty compact and easy to store.

20181209_174403 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181209_174414 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

20181209_174344 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr

up next is to finish reassembly, refinish the steering wheel, fix the worn out rag joint at the steering box, refinish the passengers side door panel, etc. plenty left to do....

12-09-2018, 10:16 PM	#25
dusterbd13 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: albemarle, nc Posts: 42	Re: project drivabeater: GMT400 long time since a legitimate update. Life's been busy, and I have been hard at building a challenge car with my dad. Its coming down the home stretch. Its almost ready for the shakedown runs, and should be absolutely NUTS. Even off the bottle. https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/fo.../134260/page1/ But this is about the truck. Last week I went to pick something up off the passengers side floor and noticed it was wet. Turned out that the carpet was SOAKED. And the jute underlayment. So, since half measures availed us nothing, it was time to do something about it. Oh, and its back to being my daily. And I HAD to have it on the road for Saturday morning.... Monday I went to work. 20181203_120556 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181203_140910 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr stripped EVERYTHING but the dash. The floors are absolutely spotless. I love southern trucks. The carpet was really, really bad. Stained, faded, smelly. The jute had started growing mold. Headliner was junk, and the plastics were 50 shades of gray. All were known about except the mold. So, no time like the present! 20181203_131621 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr took everything but the headliner outside, fired up the castrol superclean, stiff brush, and garden hose. You should've seen the stuff coming out of the carpets. It was NASTY. After: 20181204_092952 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr while that stuff was drying, I did my sound deadening. Again, using the mcmaster carr mastic with about 80% coverage. Then foil backed jute, and the foil bubble wrap from lowes. 20181204_075506 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181204_082138 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181209_112721 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr I tossed the seat and seatbelt back in the drivers side. I also went ahead and finally wired some trailer lights. 20181205_072930 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181206_163519 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr somewhere last week I also finally went ahead and recovered the headliner. And the overhead console. Last week and this weekend are a blur of work, to be honest. Only two days are solid for me at this point (yesterday and today) so take my days as a general timeline. In the process, I finally finished up the backup camera monitor mounting (piano hinge, short screws, and some 3m trim tape), installed the autodim and temp mirror, wired the stuff. Etc. 20181205_073955 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181205_080331 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181205_081517 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181205_083029 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181205_083917 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181205_085732 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181208_162542 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr so, Saturday morning, I backed up to the trailer, hooked up the wiring, and left out for the Albemarle Christmas parade where I was helping my wife's girl scout troop, and also, apparently, the whole countys worth of girl scouts. (had I known ahead of time about that, I woulda gotten a bigger trailer from brother Dallas). 20181208_090617 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr IMG_5434 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr IMG_5449 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr got home from delivering the trailer back, seeing the parents, etc, and went to doing serious work. First, note that my camera doesn't pick up just how yellowed, stained with nicotine, and bad the interior plastics were. Here's some attempts. (door panel is striking, and the passengers side was the clean one. Its before and after, essentially) 20181205_081633 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181208_144540 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181208_144534 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr I finished cleaning and dying all the interior panels except the passengers door panel. Its still drying. The door panel, I masked off the pad by your arm prioer to shooting with SEM dye. It tends to make carpet/cloth kind of stiff. 20181208_155343 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181208_162225 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr carpet got the same treatment 20181208_144544 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181208_153001 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr before reassembly (well, too much anyway) I went ahead and addressed the keyless entry and audio. Keyless entry has no pictures, but it was a cheap bulldog unit left over from some other project. Don t remember how much or which project, but it works. 20181209_104019 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr audio changed a bit. First, I replaced the blown 4x6 rear speakers with a pair of 3.5 I inherited somewhere. And I changed the rockford fosgate monoblock amp for a 4 channel kicker that came with my BMW. Two channels of the kicker are running the 6.5 speakers in the doors, and the other two channels are bridged to my sub. I also built an amp mount with one inch wide steel bar stock bent and drilled. Screwed it to the rear cab wall under the trim where it wouldn't pole through to the outside. Ran all my wiring behind the carpet on the rear wall for a clean install. Damn thing sound GLORIUS. Still need to build a different box, as I want the 8 down-firing under the passengers seat. Unused space there, and space is at a premium in the cab. But, were almost perfect. 20181208_162318 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181208_163133 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181209_135454 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181209_150947 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr finished the day with reassembly. And scrubbing the seats. Again, the dirt I got out doesn't photograph well.... 20181209_173837 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181209_173908 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr now that the truck is on runflats and has load bags, I needed a compressor to carry with me. The hight dollar, heavy duty 12v compressor from harbor freight, and one of their 50 cal ammo cans, makes it pretty compact and easy to store. 20181209_174403 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181209_174414 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr 20181209_174344 by Michael Crawford, on Flickr up next is to finish reassembly, refinish the steering wheel, fix the worn out rag joint at the steering box, refinish the passengers side door panel, etc. plenty left to do....