ah. Man I NEED to get to Home Depot...<sigh>

 

make sure you make a list and only get whats on that list!! no impulse shopping!

 

HA! Yeah right, good luck with that Mr 100th thread post!

 

good luck to your face!!! but seriosly... home depo will have you buying more stuff than you need... may the force be with you.

 

yes they will! Don't hurt me.

 

Giggity!! The new painted battery tray is installed and purty!!! That is all.

 

Today I took the passenger fender and the hood louver off to see what I was gonna be working with. Running that 3" flex hose is gonna be just fine however the HUGE hole I'm gonna have to make to get into what the louver covers is going to be interesting. I'm gonna need to notch a little more of the hole where the hose comes outta the air box. Eventually that will be sealed off from the fender well.



Here you can see where I'm gonna cut. Basically, my first plan is to use some 3" exhaust tubing and make a completely unique bendy piece... FYI, the actual scoop for the inlet air for the cabin air sits on the passenger side of the louver cavity. So, I have to be careful not to interfer with that but there is just enough room.


Here the battery is fully installed into the diesel factory location. I also transferred over the ground wire from the passenger side to the new location and utilized a motor mount bolt to reground the block. I will continue to use the factory ground, just have to get a new wire and install it to the fender. There is plenty of clearance for the positive terminal in relation to the hood. So, atleast the battery install part of this is done. The WHOLE electrical is still pending. Minor detail though, pretty straight forward.

 

Very nice! You think it'll be done by snow run time?

 

ugh, I'd sure would like too. I may try to scam outta a day of work and I'd bet I could get this wrapped up. It's quite an extensive project. I still don't even know what I'm gonna do for a scoop. Plus I still have to get my mud flaps installed.

 

eh, well Levi came over to get his skid and to grab some tools to get his helicoil done. So I fired up the rig so he could hear it. I figured it was as good a time as any to check for leaks again. Same joint, but now its leaking at the top. At least the bottom is sealed up, huh?

 

ah man, that sucks!! Don't worry mine leaks in places too! LOL! I should probably fix that...

 

Painted the battery hold down bar today...




and no Jason I didn't paint it green! lol

 

 

oh cmon, REALLY?! LOL! Its just a bar!!

 

Hahaha..just messin with you..

 

hey big b, just curious, have you thought about using exhaust tubes?? Possibly hit up some muffler shop dumpsters for thrown away scraps??

 

Actually that's exactly what I plan to use! Just need to find some 3" tubing and then I'm going to cut and paste basically a very bendy tubie thingy... We'll see, its gonna be a lot of welding, grinding, welding, grinding to get what I want. I actually mentioned this in my 24JAN10 update post.

 

Should have gone with green..... for shame.

 

 

looks good I am watching I'll be making a snokel thing too if I ever finish the pig