After pulling the dash, soon you will be pulling heater cores,wiring harnesses, and heater control switches. lol... While you still have a chance, practice on those two trucks on taking the dash apart. It will give you alot of confidence in yours when you have to replace your core. Even if it is awhile before you change your core, alot of it will come back to you when you do it and I could remind you over the phone on what you do if you forget.

 

Sorry u had to bone out b4 getting to certain things! Great work and find tho!

 

My job is frustrating at times for sure. But the penetrating oil needs time to work so ehh it all works out lol.

 

Cool, I hear ya. Well, ....drive safely!

 

Just posting some info for ya..

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f129...ard-air-75748/

Look at turborich post for a little more info...
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...d-mods-183608/

 

interesting stuff on the junkyard mods terry thank ya

 

thanks for the info terry, I will be digging into that idea soon. Dragon terry is always a source for good info.



Ok quick udate, since I finally got my 3rd gen out of the shop and most of the projects for it finnished up for the time being I decided to spend some time on this od girl.
I still havent got he fuel ssue sorted out I jst kinda putered around on it, It was ealy nice to just tinke and not feel any presure to really get anything done. I got the fresh air door asembly swaped out that was a big relief. I wanted to swap dash pads out with the 84 pickup I had I pulled oth pads awhile back, the one out of the 84 had a few cracks but was way better than the one I had, I picked up a vynal reair kit at autozone and fixed the cracks it worked really well I will post up some pics asap. I started painting some of the dash parts its looking really good. I also started to do my sterio install. like I said just kinda oofed around but still managed to get a few things done. I will get some pics up soon. thanks for checking in.

 

good to hear you got time to work on her how well that vinyl repair stuff work? only on hard dash or can it fix like a tear in the side panels

 

hey cyberhorn, Im really happy with the results of the vinyl repair, I think it would work great on door panels or any vinyl surface. It has a little tool that you have heat up and it kinda bonds everything back together, it also came with 2 or 3 plates to put a pattern back in the surface. I will get some pics up of it as soon as i can.

 

awesome look forward to seeing them

 

Pics! Soon! Jonesing! Haha

 

Here is the plug wires you were asking about. http://www.ebay.com/itm/250854901322...84.m1438.l2649

 

This is the kit I used to repair my cracked dash pad






There are some pattern pieces but the pic won't up load, any way you heat this tool up lay the matching pattern over the repair run this tool over it and that gives you you texture back.


Update. I have not been able to remove the supply line from the tank, the last thing I want to do is break it so I decided to try the next best thing. I pulled the drain plug out of the tank, drained the gas out and filled and drained with water several times, then and viniger per Terrys advice I'm letting it soak I hope this does the trick.

Some of the orange gas I drained out

 

well good news thats about how bad my gas looked from sitting for a year+ gas should be clearish faintly yellow
the vinegar is slow so dont rush it too much slosh the truck every so often LOL

how much the kit cost ya jason? 8-9 bucks?

 

I poured the viniger and headed back to work so giving it a few days won't be an issue Lol.
the repair kit ifI remember was under 10 bucks.

 

I did the rusty tank issue at its finest, vinegar vinegar vinegar. slosh slosh slosh. sucked big time. But it paid off in the end, i also used a hotsy too. By the way nice pics on ur dash repair!!

 

thanks for checking in kornhuskerwizard. Im a bit frustrated it has taken me so long to get this thing in the shop and start this, I should have just drained the gas while it was sitting outside and added the vivger then. I might actually have had it running again by now. the interior revivale is going well, so far Im really happy with the results. maybe soon I will have both my runners RUNNING at the same time and I can pick which one I want to drive instead of them decideing for me lol.

 

Your runner might not know what to think when it gets some clean fuel in her stomach. Looking forward to seeing your dash put back together and how the tires look on her. From the previous picture it gives it a whole new personality.

 

Well terry that makes 2 of us buddy.

I got most of the dash painted and reassembled, also spent a little time working on the cigarette lighter working at least now I can charge my phone. I have to finish up my sterio install before the rest of the dash can go together and I will have that finished up soon.

 

Terry and I did some tire swapping awhile back I traded him a set of 31/10.5 for his 31/10.5 mud terrains, finally got them mounted up. I don't intend to wheel this truck but I really like the more aggressive stance.