Recent content by Lucille

Bumper 90% knocked out last night. Need to add recovery points and may add a hitch receiver tube frenched in to the middle. Simple and should bump things just fine. Going to head to TSC today and get some d-rings and a receiver tube. May add some cool lights in the future.

Started the bed bob last night. Took 14" out to make it a shortbed length in the off chance i put on a camper shell one day. I got the gaps to be pretty tight. A little fine tuning and it will be ready to weld. Going to build the rear bumper first as it will be easy to weld out with the rear of...

Id say they are supposed to be parallel to each other front/middle/back. Bushings wear out faster if things arent square. Unless you compensate with a mount that is off to take this into account.

Add some seafoam to the tank to help with the water.

Interior is 95% done. Waiting on my new 3D printed dash defrost vents to come in, then i can wrap up the dash portion. Welded in the floor patch panes and seam sealed everything. Next a layer (two in some spots) of stick on butyl sound deadening. Then a layer of mass backing foam stick on...

Been plucking away at the interior. Dash is trimmed and back in. Installed a coverlay dash cover and it sure did clean it up. Before: After gluing it down. These fit so nice. The two holes drilled are for the inclinometer. Picked up some LP-poors for the front end. Built a surround for...

Anytime man. What part of TX are you in?

Are you missing the screws? If not, id just start using what fits. Maybe the 4 that hold the cluster/bezel on use the same type. Same for the radio bezel, etc. I havent seen any diagram that shows each individual screw. Mine is held together with whatever works, lol. I do know that the ones that...

Looks like a nice parts list. Converting the 80 axles to leafs is going to be fun. The front axle tubes are a weird shape but can be done with leafs. I just finished mine with basically the same drivetrain but spring under. i set my front spring spacing to 31.5" (its 29" in the solid axle mini...

Cage is done. Boy did that suck, but its high and tight and mostly welded out. At least as much as i could get when i dropped it down through the floor. Dash is cut and notched to fit around the A-pillar tubes. Should bolt in as usual. Next up fixing the huge holes in the floor, seam...

Definitely pull the windshield and put in a new gasket. I can see the separation in the old gasket. Thats where water gets in and gets on the floor and rusts everything out. Odds are the rust is pretty bad under the seal. But like you said, id just seal the rust once the glass is out and plop in...

Started on a set of sliders for the flood truck. Simple 2x4x.120 sliders tucked up high and tight to the body. I didnt like the gap between the bottom of the bed slider so i chopped up a perfectly good rocker to raise the slider ~1.25" to close the gap. Before: After: Figured while i had...

I have a clean 92 down here in texas id sell you. It has a bad 3.0 with an automatic, 4wd. No rust though. Im keeping the 4.88s out of the rear axle for my Trekker build, but the rest im trying to part out. Would sell it cheap. Its missing a few interior parts, ie front seats, AC dash parts...

You can weld in new sheet metal to fix the floor. How bad is the floor in the red 2nd gen donor? You could cut patch panels from that floor. If there isnt any rust around the windshield frame, id just fix the floors you have now. If there is rust around the windshield, id start to look for a new...

Finally fixed the broken knuckle on my buggy to get it out in the yard to take this pic. Eventually there will be a 4th with the Trekker being finished. I asked chatGPT to bob the bed 16" and this is the best it could render. I dont hate it, lol.