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finished the block off plate from the a/c heater blower, cleaned up and removed a few wires from my nasty ass harness, i am going to paint it and use silicone around the inside and outside to help keep exhuast gases out.
P.S jerry does that air cleaner top, and filter look familiar. :flipoff2:
nice, but i think you need a longer piece of all-thread.....that wing nut is barely hanging on :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
that truck losing 30 pounds is like a sumo wrestler choosing a lighter diaper :flipoff2:
vacuum canister?
yeah jerry i use to have that big 4 inch foam filter thing but one day when i was tuning the carb she back fired when i started her up and the filter caught fire.
and eric i bought a vaccuum canister to help with my brakes cause of my large cam.
no it is just tied into the current system, it is a little bigger than a 1lb. coffee can.
today i got my extensions back from the machinist, and i gotto say for once, it worked out well working my ass off at my new job in the sun all day. when i got to the machinist on my lunch break all sweeaty and dirty, he says to me you look hot and dirty do you work hard? i say yeah, kinda thinkin this is weird small talk for a guy who can barely speak english. then he says where at, and i tell him he then says wow two jobs, good job. then he asks well how much did i tell you it would cost yesterday. I say 80 bucks. he looks at me again and says i will give you workin mans break 70 dollars so he figures up the tax, and it came out to like 75 something, so i hand him 80 bucks and he hands me back a twenty and says no nevermind you just keep it, then says thanks for the business.
besides that i got the new upper passenger side shock/coil mount done and partially bolted up, bought all new calipers, bearings,yada yada yada, and made the four main parts of the brackets that will sandwich/box the frame for the new radius arm mount.
well since it appears that my truck not only hates me with utter passion, it hates anyone who tries to fix stuff. my dad went this morning to go pick it up from a friend that had replaced the flywheel and done some clean up work on the wiring in it. Well he calls me asking how to turn on the e-fan, i say turn the nob, well it was no longer working i think the guy undid a wire or something, so the truck over heated before they got it out of the shop, since they were b.s ing while it was running.
so anyway they get the fan fixed, and now the mother ****ing piece of ****, is making some kinda noise when they try to start it i mean wtf it just had a new flywheel and starter put in it. so he is dicking with it now trying to see what is going on and get it fixed.
also to add to the cluster fawk, it seems my trailer i usually use to trailer my piece or crap from home to here is prolly gonna be in use so i must now try and figure out another way to get it up here.
so if i get home and it gives me an major problems i.e not starting right im prolly taking parts off and ebay here we go :mad:
well he messed with it and backed of the timing a tid bit, and changed the bendix gear on the starter to a 12 tooth one instead of an 8 tooth, something he had heard from a friend of his that builds 460' and that took care of the starting noises, now i only go to be pissed when i got the bill since i am a jew and hate to pay people to work on crap that i can do. and he hcarged me like 2-something to do the kingpins on the 60, and he still didnt find a facking stud that holds the spindle on he said ford didnt make them anymore well no **** dumb ass call dana. anyways my dad drove it and said everything is bueno, well see when i go home.
I'd check with a fastener store for that stud. They seem to deal in that sort of stuff.
Sell that big ***** and get a sammy that runs, lift and lock it, add 32s, and wheel the fawk out of it. Good to flat tow too.
kopecki i had thought of this but i would like to find a press in stud that is the same as what came out,im gonna see what i can find, but im not in a to biga hurry till i get to get home and drive it and make sure all the major **** is fixed before i go putting the new axle in.
well this weekend was a pretty cool, my truck worked fine with no major problems(i.e overheating and bad starting), it actually runs a little to cool i need to order another fan wiring kit so that it has a thermal shut off. i put around a 100 miles on it during the break, and wheeled it some at the deerlease. it started right up all the time except for once when i had been driving it for like twenty minutes or so and killed it. but i let it cool for a minute or so and damn it worked. i think the starter is getting to hot because of the header.
here are a few poser shots, and one of my mom giving the tamor salute, i almost layed it over with her in the car, she wasnt super impressed when that happened.
well its here in c.s now.
also it wasnt not the f-ed up stering stop that broke, the hydro ram, the heim some how got a dent in the part that holds in the ball, and it seized the heim up, so when i hit this dip hard it bound up and boke it.
since i was at advance today getting some stuff for the truck i asked john how much a new brake caliper was for the front cause, mine has a rusty bleeder and hasnt been bleed since the lift, so my brakes blow, i remembered them being like 20 or 25 when i rebuilt the seals in them last time, well to my amaze ment they were only 10.90 a caliper, so in the effort to save time, i bought a new caliper instead of spending an hour working on a 20 yr old bleeder :gigem:
works starts now, todays list, replace front right caliper, hopefully get hydro assist ram afro enginered.
well got quitea bit done today, got the bleeder replaced, and rewelded?afro'ed the ram, along witha few other odds and ends. :flipoff2:
looks gay as hell.... :rainbow: :flipoff2:
welds look good
got lots of crap dont today, i put new exhaust hangers, fixed the exhaust manifold gasket leak, bled the ram, and my breaks, replaced a headlight, cleaned up some wiring, and most importantly finally havea radio and cd player in my truck, wooohooo. Big thanks to robert cook, and his buddy westin for making a cool mounting plate for the radio, and wading through my shat pile of wires to get everything working right.
What color is the ram? Your south Tejasness is showing through :flipoff2:
EEETTT's gold maayun!!! BLING BLING
[goldmember voice on] I love goooooooooolllldddd [off]
alright i have decided that i am gonna bust ass and try to get my truck done for tcc, i am gonna pull a week long wrench fest i guess, starting this thursday afternoon. Today i ordered the master install kit, spindle studs, two more heims and inserts for my tracbar, and tomorrow i am gonna order a new wiring harness for my e-fan to get rid of the current mess i have.
you can do eeettttt
Just a heads up Frick, after I get the heap back together and up here Friday I can start helping you with the 60 swap and everything if you need a hand. :gigem:
wellwroked on it all day long building my extended arms, and new mounts for them, tomorrow ill finish up the arms, re-assemble the arms on the 44 for the last time, drive it to ryans were the 44 will be taken out for the last time.
why do you need a wiring harness to run electric fans? I posted the link, just take out the thermo-switch if you want it manual.
finally re installed my tranny crossmember supports, and got to drive it with the new extended arms. Now that it finally has the correct amount of caster from the extended arms, and new c-bushings it drives like a night and day difference. I imagine once i put finish up the 60 and put on my new steering, therefore ditching the 30 year old tie rod it should drive like a normal vehicle again. Weird!!
sweet, so you will able to drive it around town again, if you desire
yeah that is the plan is to drive it as much as i can afford to this summer once the 60 finds its home after finals.
that will be sweet
hell yeah! It'll be panty droppin' time. :gigem:
I dont think I'd want the kind of ass big nasty would attract...
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Originally Posted by afroman006
true dat :flipoff2:
ide bet they fit the description BIG NASTY
well today i worked on trying to make my passenger side half door, look halfway decent and straight again after its clayton carnage. i cut out a large section and welded new metal in, and got the main dents out for the most part.
took it over to robbies house, to make use of a fairly flat driveway. I have it setting at ride height on jackstands, and measured out exactly how far i nned to move my radius arm mounts to put the axle back where it is again happy. I unbolted both radius arm mounts, marked where there new position should be, and unbolted the radius arms from the axle so that i can use them to know how much to grind down the c-wedges, so that they fit right on the 60 tubes.
alright me and ryan clarke busted our ass this weekend getting both are trucks moving in our dana 60 swaps. I got my arms finally mounted in the correct place, sleeved only one of the arms, cause i ran out of tube, then re did the mounts for the transfercase crossmember. I didnt like how i was gonna have to cut all of metal from my bracket to use it in stock form.
Then on ryans truck we got his frame cut and notched, and got his front leaf cross member all welded up, and one the truck.
pics
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/dana-60-swap/sff_032
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/dana-60-swap
gotthe 44 out for the last timea few days ago, and i am now grinding the radius arm wedges for the 60 fun stuff, hope to have most of the swap done by tuesday.
60 swap pictures its about 75 pecent done
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/dana-60-swap?page=8