Originally Posted by AlexBC (Post 8715762)

Holy Crap! You did an incredible job! I wish I had 1/10th the patience you have to do the body work. What a beautiful truck!!!!

Originally Posted by rodstored-72 (Post 8715773)

md,
very nice job on the fans and the CFM verification. I purchased my radi/fan setup from summit. supposedly the fans indicate that their CFM is equal to what the factory fans did for my engine. I will also wire mine up to do the same as you indicated - first fan on full until temp/ac comp. kicks on and then kick the 2nd fan on. thanks for the build updates!!:metal:

Originally Posted by MDPotter (Post 8715565)

Hope everyone had a great Easter!

So I knew the fans that came on my radiator were cheap and destined to be replaced soon so I went ahead and did it. I bought this radiator and fans on eBay and the fans were advertised as 1,228 CFM each. Through some research, I found them on Amazon for $20 a piece from a company called UPGR8. I compared them to a Spal fan rated at 1,200 CFM and noticed that the Spal fan pulls double the wattage and that confirmed for me that they are falsely advertised. Interesting that the eBay seller has since revised the details in the item listing to not indicate any fan CFM. So anyway, I bought these Spal fans rated at 1,451 CFM each. Wired them up, worked as they should and definitely moved a lot more air. It took several minutes at 3,000 RPM to get the engine up to high temp for both to kick to full speed. I noticed that running them full speed that the volt meter would drop by about 1 volt (down from 14) and the fans would slow a little bit for a couple seconds, then return to normal. This happened every 10 seconds or so. I'm not sure what's that about, but later that day I stumbled on some info on the internet saying that Spal fans are not supposed to be ran at half speed/half voltage. I wanted to hear it from Spal so I called this morning and sure enough, the tech rep indicated that it would "prematurely" wear out the motors running them in series. So I guess I'll be rewiring my fans so that one fan is on full speed when the engine reaches low temp and then the second fan kicks on at high temp (also A/C high pressure). This is the case for Spal fans, but I don't know about other manuf's. I just assumed that this would be okay since GM does it, but the fans GM uses must be designed for it. So we enlarged the holes in the shroud and I was happy with the fit and quality of these fans.

Also replaced the front shocks due to the increased drop from where I had it originally.

Originally Posted by clay68c10 (Post 8724179)

Nice progress, you'll be ready for summer.
How do you like that fuse/relay box? It looks like the same one I bought off Amazon.

Originally Posted by cornerstone (Post 8726793)

The raptor liner really looks good, and I’d bet after it gets just a little bit of use you won’t be able to see any spray lines. Is raptor liner different that a standard bed liner or just another brand?

Did you add any filler to the bedside that arrived dented? It looks too straight to only have popped out the dent, or are you just very good with a hammer and dolly?

Originally Posted by Camaroguy (Post 8726847)

Are you planning to top coat the raptor lining with body color or leave it black? Looks good, and you're way ahead of us.

Originally Posted by MDPotter (Post 8726879)

I'm just leaving it black. I thought about tinting it, but wanted a little contrast.

Originally Posted by MDPotter (Post 8655384)

The front end lighting is done. I bought the halogen upgrade headlights from LMC and I'm pretty pleased with them. They use a modern 9007 lamp and I opted for the blue-coated lamps for whiter light. Working with 4 headlights makes me jealous of you Chevy guys - it's twice the struggle and there's barely enough room in front of the core support for the housing and lamp pigtail so the wires are almost stressed on the inners. Also, I couldn't remember how the spring hooked on the buckets so I fought that for awhile.

But the LED sidemarker lights from SOKY were easy to install and look great too.

I need to figure out how to reset the glass in the channels though. I haven't been able to find much info on this task yet. It seems from the factory they were just pressed in with some rubber without any adhesive. I ordered the "glass setting rubber" from LMC and it's basically just strips of rubber. The passenger glass fell out of the channel during door disassembly so I took the driver side apart and sandblasted and painted the channels while I was at it. If anyone has any tips on this, let me know please.

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Originally Posted by 67_ShortFleet (Post 8729839)

Nice build, do you have any pictures of how the headlight buckets are supposed to be? They are messed up on my GMC and I 'm having trouble figuring out what the problem is.

Originally Posted by MDPotter (Post 8729848)

You mean how the buckets attach to the core support? I can take a few pictures of the buckets, springs, and adjusters if that's what you're looking for. Install was kind of a pain.

Originally Posted by Jolin (Post 8729977)

MDpotter was there much effort need to get those headlight to fit? Did you upgrade the harness? thanks

Originally Posted by Jolin (Post 8730065)

Thanks, My build is real similar to your. A little darker blue LQ4 4L80E, Coil springs, the same Tanks tank (hopefully I will not have any leaks my bed is on). I am in the process of wiring, I may be bugging you some more. thanks for your help.

Originally Posted by 67_ShortFleet (Post 8729871)

Yes, that is exactly what i'm looking for!