75 Dually Project - 22s and stylin

That's a perfect color combination!

BTW.. congrats for the plaque!

Did another video (because I was bored) on the Dually over the holiday weekend. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcJ1IzBCzU

We started a weekly drive-in group on Facebook, and each week we go to a different Drive-in in and around our area. Tonight was fun at an old time drive-in in Lubbock called Miss Ann's. We even had Dustin from Gas Monkey Garage come hang out with us. He brought out a new ride he has been working on, the white truck you see here.

Great fun and the Dually was a blast. Love the looks it gets from "normal people". The husbands want to come look at it, but their wives are like no! Too funny!

Hey there new member here . I have 78 single cab dually ... How would you go about running that style of wheel on it

Tongo, There are several manufacturers of adapters that take the 8 lug Chevy bolt pattern to the semi big 10 lug bolt pattern. I am using American Force adapters on my ride, and they are built like a tank! Their website is: http://americanforcewheels.com . Do you plan on lowering your truck, or are you going to keep it stock height? The reason I ask is that with the stock 1 ton rear end the semi wheels will stick out past the fenders by quite a bit. If you plan on lowering it then you will either need to shorten your stock axle, get a cab and chassis axle (which is shorten from the factory), or use a 3/4 ton rear end from a suburban. If you use the 3/4 ton rear you will still have to get the rims face milled 3/8" on each rim in order to tuck it inside your fender like my ride.

Hope all this helps you some. Let me know if you have other questions. Good luck it looks like a nice ride!

So I have been staring at the ugly bed light on my truck for some time now knowing that it had to go. So last night I got busy and pulled the lamp, made the small sheet metal plugs to fill in the holes, and then filled in the work with filler and the line where the roof meets the lower cab body work. Really straight forward stuff, and it only took a couple of hours from start to finish. I will do some additional blocking and then shoot some primer when I'm happy with the final results.

Next is the main roof panel with all those hail dents... Just not looking forward to it, and Lubbock just started into a heat wave where the temps are going to be over 100 degrees and humid (humidity this high is not normal for our region). Ah well if it was easy....

Hey there . Yes I am planning on lowering it a bit idk yet how far I will need to take it... Would I need a rear end out of a suburban or could I use one out of a 3/4 truck?.....
About the wheels I can get them prett cheap so if I followed your direction I would have to have the over all size Miller down to 22inches and then the actual mounting surface? Thanks so much for the help

Tongo, I know the 3/4 ton suburban rear ends would work, but you would have to simply measure the 3/4 ton truck rear end to see if it would work.

So I finished up the bed light this evening, blocked it all out, and shot some etch primer on it. I also finished up the upper rear cab corners where the seam is too. Now it is all smooth and ready for finish primer.

Now on to the hail dents in the roof. Been pulling them out with a paintless dent glue puller. Working really well so far. Just takes lots of time. Still going to have to run a skim coat in the end to get it flat and perfect.

So I had an issue with my Accuair eLevel system this weekend. I called their tech line, which by the way is really great! I am sending in my ECU for them to look at and hopefully fix. They are a great company and I know they will take great care of the products they sell.

The issue with the truck was that it would not level properly, and when I tried to recalibrate it, the ECU simply would not take the new calibration. So back to the Accuair guys for them to take a look at it.

The reason for writing this post is when I talked with the tech he said they have had issues with their ECU's if someone has drained their battery and had to jump their car. We also spoke about bad grounds being a potential culprit as well. BTW, I have neither jumped my truck from another vehicle, or had any ground issues that I know of.

So a warning to you guys who have this system. If you have to jump your car from another battery please disconnect your ECU so it will not damage it.

When I get the ECU back from Accuair I am going to isolate it big time! I will take lots of pics on the reinstall. I like the Accuair products, don't get me wrong. I just wish their ECU's we more robust.