what would you do frame up restore?
 

New to the forum and new to diesels. I have stripped my 93 w350 to the frame it had about 330000 miles and was pretty rusty. I want to pull the engine and tranny and paint the frame. Wasn't sure of what I wanted to do next. Since engine and tranny are off what should I do with them? KDP and new gaskets for the engine? What about tranny? What about brake upgrades? What would you do if you were rebuilding?:-)

If you're keeping the truck, i'd change all the gaskets and seals. You're doing all that work to the truck and a oil leak would be a piss off. KDP for sure.

Everthing else is just a option. Depends just how far you want to go.

Welcome to the board!

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personally, id make it a ground up new truck....re-seal the engine and put a NV4500 behind it and disk brakes all the way around...thats just me. hope you enjoy your big bad diesel and the fourm!!!

im currently repainting the frame on my 92 1 ton. im curious what kind of paint your using? i went with the east wood 3 coat system, converter, encapsulator and extreme chassis black, pretty pricey but good results.

Hadn't decided yet was thinking of POR 15 with gloss black. I'm going to pull the engine this weekend and take the frame to be blasted so I have to decide quick. Did you have to blast yours before painting?

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Would you buy an rebuild kit to do this?

I've blasted a few frames and put por15 on. You will need to coat over it because it oxidizes very fast! So while its still a touch tacky spray something over it

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What did you paint over your por 15

I just used a single stage paint. if you spray while its tacky its good to go, but if you let it dry you have to scuff up everything! And that's a pain lol
It comes with pretty easy to follow instructions and what will work with it.
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If I was that far I would just take it and have it rhino lined and then you'll never have to worry about it getting scratched and rust building up.

Ground up rebuild I would keep the 727 trans since they are bulletproof if you take care of them, Bradford 4 box flatbed with hydraulic dump, billet or diamond plate dash almost flat with custom gauges, swap the grill for a custom made one piece with open center, dual headlights side x side, Dual 6" exhaust straight piped dumping right behind both front tires, 3rd gen mirrors, swap the windshield wiper setup so I don't have to worry about plastic clips anymore... The list goes on and on but the sky is the limit.

I am waiting for my dad to retire so he can help me do a build on my first gen and when it's finished I am going to give him the truck since he is the one that gave it to me when I was 16 as my first truck. Been in the family since 93 when it was bought new.

My next truck is going to be a 3rd gen? With no motor and tranny so I can swap in a 350-400hp motor home cummins and tranny. 30-35k LB Towing machine right there! Idk If they would let me use it in sled pulling though... Yet another sport I wanna try out

I been thinking about going with a flatbed the bradfords are nice. What kind of hydraulic dump would u use