So what did you do with your truck today?

[KansasIDI]

Dad gum... I've never seen that before! Think NAPA will honor the warranty on that Spectra?

That's wild. I guess one advantage to never having working A/C in my pickup. That's super lame to have a new pump fail like that.
Glad to hear the good news of the CAC though. It's wonderful!

Yeah, I bet that my local Napa will warranty it. Cap should’ve blown in that event, cap was put on same time as radiator. I’ll definitely be getting a new cap too…

I will definitely get the AC fixed, but if I delay that some, might not be till next spring, don’t need AC much after about middle of September here, not that far away really.

Yeah I’m real happy about the intercooler, got it installed in about 6-7 hours.

 

[The_Josh_Bear]

HAHA good call on the cap! Something in my brain was saying, "I don't think radiators are supposed to do that, but I can't remember WHY"

 

[Nero]

Now thats down right impressive.

 

[DougBoy66]

Is this bad?

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I know I probably could have gone another 100,000 but since I was in there anyway went ahead ad swapped the front shackles. Pain in the ****.

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[Nero]

Just grab it with a pair of genuine vice grips, rotate it 180° and ship it for another 100k

 

[Nero]

Washed some rims.
Fun fact, Alcoa had a recall for rims from 1993- June 1996.. These ones are stamped December 1996, whew.

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So, what's yalls opinion, should I look for two more rims for inner duals, or just run steelies inside?

 

[nelstomlinson]

You already have the steelies, right?

 

[Nero]

I do. Was thinking weight reduction would help a little, but could just be pennies in the bucket

 

[tbowker]

Look for two more. In for a penny, in for a pound. Those "new" rims are classy, you don't want to be accused of being half classed.

 

[XOLATEM]

Just grab it with a pair of genuine vice grips,

You just made my heart soar...I am remembering a Steve Miller song....

 

[rreegg]

Washed some rims.
Fun fact, Alcoa had a recall for rims from 1993- June 1996.. These ones are stamped December 1996, whew.

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So, what's yalls opinion, should I look for two more rims for inner duals, or just run steelies inside?

I'd just run the steelies on the inside personally............. which is what you'd have to do until you find another 2 anyway right? Would it even be possible to find 2 or would you have to get another set of 4?

Of course alcoas on the inside would be great and that's be ideal.

Saw a mk4 with aluminum rims at pick and pull while back and had to hard nope to not get them

 

[Nero]

You just made my heart soar...I am remembering a Steve Miller song....

Is it wild mountain honey?

Steve miller is my favorite artist. Literally only band I've ever seen in concert.

@rreegg man, I miss my mkiv....

 

[divemaster5734]

Rebuilt a C6 that's on a '90 U Haul 20' box truck with a stock 7.3 last year, then started the C350 project due to bad weather prevented install.
Went to slap the pan on and realized the shifter was 90° off.
Already had the valve body on.
Which meant the drive and forward clutch packs, band, park pawl and oil pump would need to come out to pull the kick down bar to get a socket on the hex nut.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Pulled the valve body, wove a box end through the kick down and got to the hex nut.

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Slapped the shifter and kick down in place and bolted the valve body back.

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Oddly comforted by the fact that just like me, the transmission has a screw loose..

 

[Old Goat]

I picked up a 87 F-250 6.9 4X4 C6 last May for $2000.
Spedo shows 130K.
Loaded up the Hotsy pressure washer in the Loader Bucket
Had to use 3 ratchet straps to hold it. and took it across the
yard to the big shop where I have a few vehicles parked,
that don`t run. Then drag out 3 sections of hose from the
house and 100ft of drop cord from the shop.


Washed the under side from L/R to the front, Under side of the
engine then the top side. Blasted a top of crap off it.

The have a 83 Mercedes 300D Turbo I bought 3 years ago, got hit in L/R quarter, some how they missed the whole left side,
but (wheels were turned to the curb) hit the L/F wheel at tore
out the suspension on that side.

Laying on the ground, got what I could every thing underneith
Then the engine top to bottom.
That kicked my butt time I was done.

At least now I can see the engine`s from all the C r a p that
was on them.

I noticed the Core support on the 4x4 had been welded on both
sides in top with a piece of metal to bridge the cracks.
Then under the front end pressure washing, noticed this section
of metal hanging down kind of swinging around. The bottom of
the support is broken off and hitting the radiator.....OH Great.
This truck must have been doing some hard four wheeling in
the past. Wonder what else lurketh under her skirts?

I have 2 perfect Core supports, but for a Bull Nose.
Guess I`ll be crawlin through the PNP`s soon.


Goat

 

[Danielle]

I got my first IDI right before I got pregnant. Had a good year with it before realizing the entire back was rotted out and my new baby could have fallen out (not really but so much rot haha).

It then had a long and very eventful snooze.

So that baby just entered 7th grade and I realize I've been doing giant projects and other people's builds all summer (so many jeeps!!!!!!!).

Today I got 1 thing accomplished, I shoved it back into my shop!

Project is 4 major parts

*Rebuild back
*Remove engine/oil pan rotted etc
*E4od fried and sold the 2 I rebuilt since then... Do I do it again or manual swap
*Replace seats

I think first step is strip it down, throw all the gross stuff in garbage, pull engine.

Lots to do before needing to buy any parts, which my poor husband will be grateful for haha.

I absolutely love my other truck being a manual and I don't know if I have the attention span to also rebuild... Although it is very relaxing and I'm a total **** fabricator

I want to do a body lift as I've seen it's a lot easier to work on with that extra space