Bonnie 1971 SWB LSX

[MDPotter]

Originally Posted by Curtb1971

That would be fine by me. I'm headed out of town for the weekend but next week I'll be back. I'll shoot you a pm with my contact info. Be a good excuse to knock some carbon off and talk chevy trucks.

If I wasn't on the other side of the mountain, I would love to come see it. I also have a 6.0 and am slowly gathering LS swap parts. Do you mind sharing how you did your hydroboost setup?

[Curtb1971]

Originally Posted by MDPotter

If I wasn't on the other side of the mountain, I would love to come see it. I also have a 6.0 and am slowly gathering LS swap parts. Do you mind sharing how you did your hydroboost setup?

Anytime you're on the side that flows to the Mississippi feel free to give me a shout. As far as the hydroboost set up, it is out of a early 2000's astro van that was disc up front/drum rear. I ended up getting a new astro van master cylinder but used the proportioning valve out of the junkyard set up. I bought the mounting bracket to the firewall off captianfab here on the board but with that style bracket I needed to enlarge the hole on the firewall. Also I had to modify the rod from the pedal to the hydroboost by cutting then running a die to put on a all thread couple.with stop nuts on each side. I did that for a little adjustment if needed and a mechanical connection.
The astro van prop. valve uses the same style brake warning light as the truck did so a simple wire connection was all that was needed. For the pressure hoses off the pump and hb to power steering gear I think I used 09 2500 hoses. I needed to make a tube line with the 45 degree inverted flare to adapt to the late model hoses so took the two piece to a hydrologic line shop and they hooked me up with a weld a crimp. Kind of wished I ran a small power steering cooler in series with the return line back to the pump but I don't think I'll have overheating issues with the pump, only time will tell. Lots of work in the hydroboost set up but boy does it lock em up

[Putzer]

Originally Posted by MDPotter

If I wasn't on the other side of the mountain, I would love to come see it. I also have a 6.0 and am slowly gathering LS swap parts. Do you mind sharing how you did your hydroboost setup?

would like to see this as well. will be doing mine shortly

[MDPotter]

Thanks for the info Curt! It'll be awhile before I get to the hydroboost, but I'm doing a lot of research up front.

[Curtb1971]

Well, I'm doubling down at the shop for a little while. A new recruit arrived yesterday. Here is a sneak peak a my dads 68 we're building. Eventually l will do a build thread on this truck as he is a hell of a bodyman and did some way cool stuff that needs shared here. I'm enjoying these days that I get to spend tinkering on trucks with him. Going to have a glass guy pull the windshield from my truck and install in his because looking through the top tint strip isn't the best for visibility and install one with no tint strip on mine. I need to get the vintage air setup finished by making an adapter for the lines to the LS compressor. I have a new saden compressor with relocation brackets but heard they can cause vibration and I would have to start over on the upper radiator hose.

[Curtb1971]

Got some time yesterday and installed the front and rear bumpers. Had to install the front fender cup trim before we could put on the front bumper. I ended up restoring the oe bumper bolts and polishing them up. Earlier last week we had showtime glass swap the shaded windshield out of my truck and into my dads. With the new buckets and being tall I was looking right out of the shaded part. Also changed the door rubbers from Precision to Steele rubbers. (In pic Steele rubber on the left Precision on the right) WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Had to slam them both before and now they shut easy breezy. Pictures or it didn't happen

[Curtb1971]

Over the last few months I installed most of the interior and have been buttoning up the vintage air. Also a few various things.

[Curtb1971]

Just because everyone likes pictures