Well WTF, do I post my 3500HD project here or not

Couldn't stop, hadda keep working until I was just too damn tired. Pulled the exhaust off the donor truck, dunno if I can make the head pipes work on the HD because of the different sway bar setup, and the leaf springs on the front axle. Gonna take some work to try to make that happen, probably have to pull the trans crossmember back out.

But onto the stuff that DID get done...drilled the cab for the wiring boots (truck was no power anything, had no holes in the cab door jambs for wiring), installed the flares onto the fenders, hung the doors with new pins and bushings, and installed the fenders. Starting to look like a real truck!

I took it out at midnight and rinsed it off in the dark, all the bodywork was REALLY dusty, so it's still kind of dirty in these pics, just rinsed off and blow-dried.





The gaps all came out pretty decent considering this was a beat-up work truck that had been wrecked in the front, and the fenders are from a different truck, and so are the doors. I tweaked the doors a little to make them fit better and will probably do more once the cab weatherstrip is on.

Richard

WTF? No Caddy-Clip?

Lookin good, Nukka.

Of course you did! It is a shitbox.

Thanks Campy...nah, no Caddy clip. Hate chinese body parts and I don't have a line on any OEM Caddy parts at my budget, which would be FREE...

And Husk, whatsamatter, jealous? I know all you square guys love having doors that you gotta slam so hard the windows break and you laugh at us shitbox guys that can close a door with just a pinky finger.

Best way to limo tint a squarebody: five layers of 35% so it's not too dark, but thick enough to retain the glass when it busts out!

Richard

Door latches and interior handle/lock rods installed, all door/cab weatherstrip pieces installed, wiper linkages adjusted, wiper cowl and arms installed, fender corner fillers installed, core support center brace, and finally the hood.

Yes, you can install a freshly painted hood onto freshly painted fenders, by yourself, if you have a plan. It lined up pretty well. It does shut evenly, I just don't have the main latch installed yet because I need to run the release cable.





Richard

unlike the rustboxes, where you need 40 sheets of sandpaper, a grinder, a weilder, some spare pcs of sheet metal, and a butt ton of bondo

Grabbed a set of foggy OEM headlights and sanded/polished them up a bunch; they came out pretty nice. Used metal duct tape to cover some holes in the tops of the housings where some kid had drilled through to install strobes. I dug up a decent radiator but it's not for an HD so I had to space it; not gonna tell y'all how or you'll make fun of me. Suffice it to say it fits fine, got the lower shroud half installed, need to find an upper shroud half to match.



Hoses hooked up great from the 1 ton. Filled it up and discovered a nice big leak...from the weep hole on the water pump. So now I get to take a bunch of that stuff back out of the way and put on a new pump! Yay!



Richard

i promise we won't, you know here at DS we are all about "thrifty innovation" lol.

^^^X's 2^^^

You got me all curious now.

look at thoes puppy dog eyes......you know you can't say no to campy...