Here are some pictures of the gauge box I made out of a couple ammo cans I had laying around in my garage. Nothing spectacular, but it getsthe job done. I don't want to hog up a bunch of space so I am just going to put all my projects in this thread in case anyone wants to check them out. Keep in mind, I'm a rookie so be gentle!

 

Here's the seats I put in. The ones that were in it before were out of a '79 Ford LTD. They weren't in the greatest shape, but more importantly the back was so thick that it pushed me too far forward and I had no leg room at all. I will see if I can find some pics from before I swapped them out. Anyhow, I bought these ones from a guy for $20. They are out of a Toyota Tacoma, and leave a lot more room to be had. I used some U-shaped pickets to make the frame work and sandwiched some of those little rubber deals you are supposed to put in your coils springs if you wanna do a half *** job of raising your vehicle that they had at my local Autozone in between them for a little extra shock absorption.

 

Ok, this is the last one for a while. The leaf springs that I have under my truck are the ones out of the 40 passenger bus that I got the Cummins out of. They were great when I had a couple pallets of cinder blocks in the back or when I had it full of rocks or what ever I happened to be hauling, but when I ran it empty it felt like I welded the axle straight to the frame. So I took the shortest leaf from the bottom and moved up to the middle to soften the ride (My thought was that it would kinda serve as a helper spring as well as maintain the height), then added a set of 5,000 lb air bags so that I can still haul heavy things. I also installed one of the fancy little air pressure guages that has a switch to control the amount of air in the bags from the comfort of my cab. I suppose I should have taken pictures of all that too. I'll try to get to it while I take pictures of the final product. Once I got the bags installed I tackled the next obstacle: The kit came with a dedicated air compressor, but I already have an ARB air compressor that keeps my bumpers at 150 PSI so I didn't see the sense in adding another. The problem was that the actuator that comes with the kit was designed to kick the dedicated air compressor on when you wanted to air up the bags, and just let air out when you wanted to air them down.

In order to get things working the way I wanted them to off my existing compressor I bought and electic air cut off switch like the one I used for my air horns and I plumbed it into the lines between the air tanks and the air bags so that as long as the air pressure in my tanks is as high or higher than the pressure I want in my bags it works just fine.

I will try to get the rest of the pictures soon... If anyone is even following. I'll post the pics with the airlines installed as well as a pic of the way I plumbed anything. If anyone is interested I can also draw out a diagram of how it all fits together, but I'm sure if I figured it out anyone can.

 

Ok, here are some pics from when I put on the fuel filler door, cap and hose. I got tired of having to reach under the fender to fill it up, not to mention the old pipe was too small so I couldn't click the filler nozzle which meant I had to stay under there the whole time I was filling it up. With a 44 gallon tank and a trickle of fuel it would take a long time even if I DIDN'T have to pay twice (Most fuel pumps seem to shut off at about $75). This is a much better set up! I guess I should try to talk through basically what I did... I'm not used to trying to tell people how I did stuff, I'm usually on the listening end. So bear with me here. Well, this was pretty simple, basically I started by wandering around my local junk yard trying to find a fuel filler cap that would get the job done. I wanted a square filler door (To match the stock ones on the fenders), I wanted it to have the spring-action to keep it closed (As opposed to the type that is cable operated from inside the vehicle), and I wanted the donor vehicle to be a Diesel rig for the larger diameter fioller hose. I found what I needed in a 199? Ford truck that had lived a pretty rough life. Using a hack saw and a sawzall I cut a big hunk of the surrounding material off along with the fuel door erring on the side of caution.

While I was at it I pulled the filler tube all the way down to the tank as well as the ones off a couple other random diesel vehicles. When I got my treasures home I measured the top of the fender to decide just how big a chunk I was going to cut out. Once I got my measurements I cut the scrap around the filler door to those dimensions. Then I used that as a template to trace out the area on the fender. Once that was done I used my plasma cutter to cut the material out (Once again erring on the side of caution) and used a grinding disk for the fine adjustments so that the new part fit nice and snug. Once the new part was just right I tacked it in, then just welded it in small 1/2 inch beads in a criss-cross pattern allowing it to cool in between to prevent it from warping. After several welds and grinds I got it where I was happy with it and squirted some spray paint on it. That's about all there is to it. I hope I didn't run on too much!