1988 R30 Crew Soon to be Dropped

Tonight's solo adventure went a little like this.











Very tight fit







On another note, I found this thing is pretty local to me. The guy wants $300 for the trailer and shell, I don't need the trailer but the shell has an odd enough look to it that might actually work for one of these slammed trucks.



Thoughts?

More uninteresting cummins related stuff showing up.

Bunch of gaskets, a few to fix some leaks and some to go in and do the KDP fix.


4k GSK, valve spring tool and bar over tool


60lb valve springs


I'm trying to get this dodge out of my garage, I have a few local cummins enthusiasts that are interested in taking it so hopefully that pans out. I don't have the room to keep it around and part it out.

Made some room finally.





And painfully moved it in, my driveway isn't any wider than the garage door so this was a challenge to do single-handed. I only got it in just far enough to close the doors, my roommate was at work.





I'll be starting to slowly tear it down after I get it all the way in.

Did a little work today, started by removing the running boards and dropping the gas tank. Removed the fuel lines and started on the brake lines to get the inside of the frame cleared out for the 4x3 bracing. The trans crossmember is also in the way mounting inside the frame and being as the drivetrain isn't being reused I moved to the front to get everything out of the way for the engine/trans to come out.

Sorry for the blurry pics, hard to take pics without smearing grease all over my phone.









Was only 98 degrees in the garage due to rain so not as bad as it could be.

More pictures of the frame and trans crossmember.





Outside frame, going to grind the rivets out of the body mounts and puts some bolts in temporarily so the mounts can be welded to the frame.



Another mellow day.



A little progress today before stopping early to take the family out to eat.





Wish gm would have made the engine harness a separate section of the main harness, so much crap on this TBI motor.



literally crap



Hauling the 454 to storage tomorrow and then carrying on.

You are making some great progress!!!!
Way ______ more than me!!!

Thanks!

I've been doing a lot of non-glamorous tidbits, removing the body mounts, frame rivets and anything else in the way where the frame reinforcements will go has been kicking my ass. Cut the rivet heads off, pry mount off, cut rivet shank flush, drill rivet centers and then pound out. Time consuming.


This new forum format REALLY, REALLY blows.

I concur with the new forum format sucking

Still doing lots of tedious little stuff on the truck when I can. Lots of other summer stuff getting in the way.

Got the body mount rivets ground and drilled out and the mounts welded back on.

First frame tube mocked up.

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Tail tube mocked.

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I got frame tubes for both sides mocked up, gonna get the cab raised up off the frame before I can go much further.

Whipped up some jack stand extensions for the body, its 'light' so these will do the trick.

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I'm not going thru the extra hassle to attach new photos directly to the forum, if its not accepting photobucket formatting like it used to then I probably won't keep updating this thread. I don't upload anything to my computer and playing the copy paste dialog box game isn't fun. There is a thread on the 67-72chevytrucks I'll keep updating.