Thanks! We have it on the monitor here as well so we can see what is going out

We also have a dedicated email address for the guys doing the swap, swap@watrd.com

 

hey get to work. j/k

edit: you going to have to flatten the tires to get it out of the garage after this??

 

I'm keeping up with it every now and then. Hope I don't miss any pics as they're on 5 min intervals. I like the idea indeed. Looks like y'all are making pretty good progress. Can't wait to see the final results. How far do you think you're going to get today?

 

We are about to spark off the plasma cutter, so we are hoping to get the IFS completely cut off and the grinding done.

 

WEBCAM............??!!

WHERE.....???

I WANNA SEE, I WANNA SEE!!

 

Look at Rob's first post here.

 

TRUE INDEED.

 

http://www.watrd.com/SWAP

It's just getting fun

IFS is off, grinding, grinding, grinding...

 

Indeed, thanks ROB!

I LOVE that truck, by the way.

Boy, that is one nice rig!

 

Thanks! Hopefully this will only make it better

 

I think both you and I know that it will certainly make it much better!

However, someone is blocking the view of the camera and I can't see! LOL!

 

its going to be sick!!!


(cebby, that means bad ass)


the boys are starting to look a little whipped.

 

Cutting and grinding your factory suspension off that pricey Taco!!



...but it's gonna be sweeet!!
Can't wait to see the finished product, Rob. Good luck!

Jim

 

 

 

It is going quite well at this point. We removed the ARB bumper, then removed every bit of bolted on IFS, including the diff. Then I sparked up the plasma cutter and for about two hours, cut everything remaining to ribbons. Now we are about 80% of the way through the grinding, so look for some welding to begin around noonish PST tomorrow.

The webcam has been a hit. We have received a lot of mail from the site and folks seem to be enjoying the show.

 

Rob, what kind of webcam is it, and what software is cycling the pics every so many minutes.

I use to have a webcam about 5 years ago, but it was a major headache to hook up back then.

 

The camera is a really old 3Com "Home Connect" series. It's auto contrast, brightness, etc. But manual focus. The software is a program called "WebCam 3.5" from CoffeeCup. It's pretty simple use and packs a lot of features. It has a web page wizard that will create pages for viewing the webcam images, similar to the ones on my site. It also has a "security" mode where it sleeps until it sees motion in the camera image, then it snaps a sequence of photos or shoots video and saves it to your hard drive

We've been talking about moving the web cam down to knee level. Upside: you will be able to see more of the suspension of the truck and less hood. Downside; the number of gratuitous @ss shots of greasy men in coveralls is likely to increase. Thoughts?

 

Nope, don't need anymore shots like that.

 

That is a PRIME example. There would certainly be a lot more shots like that... only lower