Flushing the rocker out on both sides
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Door bottom cleaned up
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Might as well get some use outa it before it gets painted :D
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Long story short on the next set of pics... I took it to the local diesel shop to get the timing set and bumped up and the tech took it for a test drive and decided to crash the truck :D All is good though, thats why they are called accidents and all the damage was superficial.
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How she looked what I got it home... It had about 2 inches of grime on the front of the block! I went through 8 cans of degreaser and a large jug of Simple Green. :argh:
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And after ALOT of TLC....
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Played with the stock plate whule I was in there as well... Works for now
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Time to start to aquire parts.... Its only begun
4K GSK
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60LB Valave Springs
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New headlights
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I have a hood and fender and all new bumper with plastics in the Garage no pics yet... More to Come!

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how did you get the engine bay so clean? nice truck! cant wait to see more!:tu:

Awesome. Looks great :tu:

Where did the headlights come from? ebay jobbies?

LOTS of work and LOTS of degreaser and LOTS of wire wheeling, but its worth it I think! I like the results.

Lights came from Genos, I didnt want the one piece ones like ebay has...

very nice brother

When the truck gets repainted Im debating on painting the gra on the bumper as well as inserts white as well... Thoughts opinions? :pca1:

i like your new rig looks good looks like your having fun with it too :yeah:

Nice truck, engine bay came out very well....too lazy to do mine, maybe one of these days :c:. How many miles on her?

Ithink it looks like a very fun project..and I think a black bumper would look really good too..if you dont mind me asking how much did you give for her?

spay wd40 over engine bay. will look like that for a day also! knew a guy that did that at car shows.

It has 251K on her and I paid 4500 and yup wd45 is an old trick dad used as well! We've restored and had many old Mopar show cars

Some more parts!

Went to the local salvage yard and picked up the hood and fender for 150 bucks! Fender was perfect and white :D and the hood was from the same truck but I da'd it down and primed it for now since it had 2 little dents. Which is WAY better than the 40ish hail dents in the other hood I would had to fix!

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New front bumper, backet and plastics are on bench...

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An old MBRP tip I had laying around to dress her up alil :D till I find the stack I want

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Did some more work this week...

Last bit of work the truck will proably ever do. 8 yards of mulch, 3 in the truck and 5 on the trailer
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New gauges showed up yesterday
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Got the box off today so I can mod the hitch, paint the frame, remove unneeded brackets and for the AirDog install.
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I LOVE how clean the frame is!
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Starting to mod/reenforce the hitch, more pictures of that to come.
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i wish my frame was that rust free :argh:

Keep it up man looks awesome!:tu:

looks like a good project you have there :tu:

While the bed is off you should replace the rusty brake lines, Mine rusted through two weeks ago much easyer with the bed off

I would drop the tank and see whats inside. Also it would be way easy to put on a 5" exhaust.


Judging by the pics I would almost think you know what your doing...:w2: :w2:

what are your plans for the hitch?

Yes the tank is gettin cleaned since Im installing an AirDog II and all of the brake lines are in great shape but thanks for the heads up! Also here some more pics of the hitch...

All sand blasted and ectch locked
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2x2 squar tubing and lotsa funky angles to make this work...
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This should hold up.
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Nice and even side to side
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MORE FUEL!
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hitch looks good. are you gonna move the hitch forward any while you have it off? I moved mine in about 12".

You betcha! Can you still run a roll pan with it in that far? :pca1:

I dont have a roll pan ... still using the stock bumper. had to mod it a little but it works good.

Am I takin this too far? :loco: ........ NAH! More carnage today :D

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Enough grinding and scaraping for one day... Time for some :c:

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Ive never had big enough balls to do that...lol

jake, u can do that to mine when u get urs all cleaned up :w2:


looking good so far :c:

Nice work! I cant wait to start on mine this winter...i plan to fix my rusted doors, clean up my frame and axles, fix my bed, and repaint some stuff that needs fixed.

Not to mention that I will be building a motor and cleaning my engine bay to be spot less as well.

all that grinding and scaraping is also known as weight saveings lol

Ha yea, thats true! I took abt 10lbs of mud rust and unneeded brackets, but I made the hitch abt 10lbs heavier :D More to come today.... Then PAINT :yeah:

have fun jake. u gonna paint the frame black? or a silver/white color?

Just plain ol black! Easier to keep "clean" since it will be driven every now and then. It'd be cool to do a color but I wouldn't try it unless I had everything off of the frame. Maybe in another 10 years :D

All went well today put some rust eater on the frame for the areas I couldn't wire wheel as good and should be painted tomorrow. Then back to my buds shop for the AirDog, valve springs, gsk, hitch back on. Then to the other buds body shop for the box back on and hood and fender and new front end pieces... Then paint the cab. :loco:

man you work fast

looks really good bro. good call on the ebay headlights i hate mine. wish i never bough the damn things.

Well Im stil on track i guess got her 99% painted today gonna do touch ups tomorrow. But I'm VERY pleased on how it turned out. I used Summit brand Chassis Schield for paint, something new to me so we'll see how it holds up.

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The exhaust is gettin trashed anyways so i wasnt worried about over spray on that and its not that glossy, she was pretty wet yet :D

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WOW that is awesome very good job:101010:

Thanks bud!

Looks sweet!:tu:

dang, just paint everything y dont ya lol

lookin good :)