Hey Guys
Well, it was the fusable links causing me grief on the ignition. I have ditched them all and wired direct. I might cut in some more later but for now I have a good solid connection and it runs sweet as ever. Thanks.
I have had the truck over 15 years, btw. 3rd owner but the second owner only had it a week.

So anyhoo, here are my homemade bumpers and sidesteps in case it gives any of you idears.
The front and rear are mostly 2" standard pipe. The sidesteps are 1 1/4" standard pipe and 1/8" steel plate. For me the easiet way to cope pipes for welding is using a holesaw and a drill press to drill for the joints first. Easy to fill that way.
I am not real worried about somebody bumping me from in front or behind . he heh.
I got this crazy Captain Kidd idea in my head for the rear bumper. I got a pretty heavy insert carrier and started with that. Those are merely 3/4" solid steel square bar stock for the fillers/connectors.
Nothing like a little time a pipe bender and an old arc welder.
Yeah, no mig for me yet. I'd kill for one but whataya gonna do?
I'm a rich yuppie?? More like toothless hillbilly.
OK, the hills are kind of pretty where I live. Show you sometime.



Oh, here is also the garbage truck owwwie. I was parked beyond the parking lot, across the road and up the hill into the brush. Hell n gone from the action scene (this was not my first dance at emergency scenes).
Like it did me any good.

yours Scott

 

im not gonna lie.. thats pretty haggard.

 

Hee heeeee You got that right! She ain't no trailer Queen!

I look worse than the truck. whaaa haaaaaa hee ehhehehehe
S

 

It gets confusing when you start another thread in which you post the outcome of a question you asked in a different thread...and when people are searching for answers when they have a similar problem and come across your first thread, they aren't going to see what the solution ended up being. If you asked a question, got a response, and it fixed the problem (or didn't), post about it in the same thread!

Anyways, looks like a nice truck. Since I don't weld or fab really, I don't have any room to talk about the bumpers.

Glad you got your problem fixed! Always nice to get stuff figured out.

Show some more photos of the truck!