good thread keep it goin!

 

Thanks man at first i was discouraged at how hard it was to post pics and thought that it was going to be auful and found the best way to upload for me: Take pics with my samsung galaxy s3, download photobucket moble app, upload to app, then copy the img code and paste on here, and then type my message. also the pics are hd and i love this phone camera. Oh and i see you have been in the market for shocks as well. Have you came across anything good?

 

Yep on the pics i was an idiot too but finally figured it out and use photobucket as well. As far as the shocks i am going with OME just havent figured out what model like a N98? N92? My brother is running Bilsteins and loves them, kinda pricey, guess you have to decide if your gonna keep the vehicle or not. If you plan on keeping it i would get some decent ones, if not just get somethin. Do you know what gears yours has? If you take your rear driveshaft loose at the rearend you may have a paint color code on your rearend on the pinion nut it will give you a indication what gears you MAY have. Another thing you can do that is inexpensive and will clean up your engine is delete the egr. It will eliminate alot of clutter and vacuum lines. Im hopefully ordering my balljoint spacers, goin with 1.5s from SDORI. Ive done some research and a good place to research is 4crawler website.

 

I was just reasearching what gears i had last night and i have 4.10's on 31inch tires .i can do cruise at 55 in 4 th and if i wanna hit the interstate 5th will do from 60 to 80 like its no big deal. Thanks for the shockinfo i had some bilstiens on the rear of my83 but never rodeit enough to tell. Ill lookinto the OME's thanks. I really cant afford the bilstiens b/c i have a 67 stang taking alot of my money

 

Nothing new today, lots of smoke coming out of the hood when i had drove it about 10 miles and realized it was burning off all that degreaser i had put in it.......

 

New shift knob

 

Ha Ha burnin degreaser killin the ozone. Be careful inhalin that stuff it will give you a buzz

 

interesting, i have a 67 stang as well. lol

 

Nice! 289?

 

Wiring kit is in. Hopefully install tonight.

 

DONE my first ever head unit install. not as bad as i thought. taking the dash apart was the hard part. then wiring and troubbleshoting in the dark was fun. more pics tomorow. too tired

 

This is how bad the back of the dash was.

 

actually suprised that i had pioneer speekers already installed

 

with all the dash pieces off

 

ran out of daylight and had to wire and re install stuff in the dark.... also look at how bad my seat is

 

and quick shot of it in the dark. We just started a new semester in school and the good news is that all my classes are a CAKE WALK i have auto service tech 2 (yearlong) ecology(1semester)(also have the easiest teacher ever), Criminal Justice 2 (we watch movies every friday and tests are open notes and the teacher is ausome) and then english (also easy). So looks like i will have more time for the yota!!! now that im done with T/A chem. And my parents are going outta town ALL OF NEXT WEEK! so i will have the shop open to work on my truck. oh and i blew 2 fuses trying to get this radio to work and started troublestooting and realized i think the prevous owner let a 7 year old wire this thing! Anyway i hope to get it in the shop this weekend and mabe do a little body work and rust removal/repair and put on some used shocks i have for the rear.(left rear broke in half) ( i really want to rip up the carpet now and put down bed liner but funds are tight) So tell me what you guys think so far.

 

I have also been looking into (for several months now) The merc. om617 turbo diesel swap. Whenever the 22re decides to go i want to do this swap. I have no problems with fabrication ( also can get help from a friend that swapped a detroit diesel into and early landcruser(amazing)) but i was thinking of getting the tdswaps full kit to help install speed, but do you guys think this would be achevable in 1 summer(june 6th to august 20th) , i know i really want a diesel and and my dad really keeps trying to convince me to put a 4bt cummins in my truck and i cant seem to get it across how heavy it is and how much stuff will have to be changed. Anyway the merc diesel seems to be the way to go due to the lower costs and fuel economy. if any of you guys have done this swap could you tell me your overall thoughts of the swap (time,enjoyment,fuel economy,costs,amount of fabrication) that would really be thanked.

 

PYROJOE check it out. he did the swap your talking about.

 

worked a little today and fixed some dents in my passenger fender and sanded it. This is the hole in my bed for my stack that is going on tomorow. Now guys dont hate if you think its stupid but my bed is rusting out and i took pics to prove how bad it is, i saved the piece that i cut out in case i ever have to reweld it back. (when i really start fixing it up im going to get another bed) And i have a tractor flapper to top off the exhaust. im going to take off the cat, put the muffler where the cat was and then run a 90degree piece of flex pipe up and connect to my stack. I hope to get all this done tomorow..... more pics to follow

 

dad messing messing around with some flex pipe