Sweet pics! What an awesome payoff to an awesome build!

 

Thanks ED!!

I was at the show tonight. I took my dad since he was in town.

I will be going all weekend off and on. I need to take more pictures.

 

thats an impressive line of vehicles for one of ours to be in. haha

 

Thanks man. I'm getting ready to head back there with the family. I'll get some more pictures.

 

The kids were pumped to say the least!

The class was 4x4 Mini truck Pre 1988. We were the only ones in the class so by default we won. Still nice and hard work paid off!

 

That is awesome. Congrats. :-)

 

Thanks man.

 

Wicked! Trucks look great in there with all the show cars!

 

Congratulations!! It is still a win and now they have an idea on how to get a car into the show. No matter what it is, it is still mechanical and sheet metal.

 

Thanks man. It was Blast!


That's exactly what I was thinking! The ones who show up and do the work are excited about it, and also realize how big of a deal it is.

 

Congrats on the award, that's awesome! Your buddy is going to have one sweet truck when you guys give it back!

 

any more pic of the event? ps. this build always makes me stoked. just sayn

 

Bravo on the well deserved win! You did a top shelf job on this build.

 

Thanks Ed!

Unfortunately, I did not take many pictures while I was there.

Thanks! Still trying to finish it up.

 

Still trying to get odds and ends done on this thing. Since we swapped the Harness, We had to put a different alternator and intake from the 88 2wd pickup.

The alternator bracket and mounting is different from the 81 to the 88. So we had to take the drivers side motor mount off to swap out the alternator bracket.



Since I sold the 2wd, and did not realize that the brackets were different, I had to rob the bracket off a spare block I had in the garage.





Newer style bracket.



Newer style alternator on the Left (which we are using), Older style on the Right.



Its in.





Now we are getting ready, weld in the shock towers so I can order shocks all around.

Ordering the Drop steering arm today over my lunch break, and hopefully the shocks tomorrow.

We also decided to go with a factory seat instead of the Sparco seats. They sat so high in the cab that a 5'4" guy would rub his head on the ceiling.

So I am planning on going to the Local U-Pull it to get some factory buckets out of something.

 

If you are using an 84 or older harness, there is a black box that has something to do with the alternator. I can not think of the name of the black box at this time. It is what sets the 84 harness different from the 85 and up. I think that is one of the reasons they changed the alternators. Looking good and getting closer.

 

Hey Terry!!

We stripped the entire harness out and replaced everything with wiring from an 88 pickup.

Thanks for the compliments.

 

It was the Voltage Regulator on the 84 and earlier. The name of it just come to me.

 

Thanks!