Recent content by Rainen

I have a 94. Had odd transmission issues. including not D light. My fix. thought this might help, at least give you something else to look at. good luck

CONTINUEING For the drawer slides I ended up using 1” sq alum tubing. This stuff is 1/8” wall so plenty of thickness. On the side that attached to the drawer box I driller 1/4” holes for the machine screws, then on the outside I drilled 3/4” holes so I cold access the the nuts to tighten...

GOT SUM DRAWERS!!!! So about a month ago I finished up the drawers for the back of the truck. I couldn’t stomach the price of drawer slides, so I decided to improvise a bit. I started with building the fame using 1” sq 16 gauge square tubing and 16 gauge sheet metal. Got helpers in the way...

Thanks everyone for reading and nice feedback. I will be posting some more updates very soon! I actually just welded everything to frame. I know that is not the most popular option, as not a lot people do it, but its less work in my mind, not sure why more people don't go this route They...

Looking good. I know at the end of building my rear bumper, the price of off the shelf solutions seemed really reasonable. Good luck with your build.

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POWDER COAT!!!! I got the first pieces back from powder coat, and mounted up. I am going to change the color of the truck, so at some point the color scheme will make more sense.

REAR BUMPER 2 “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” – Someone a lot smarter than me. I have tendency to get carried away on project like this and make them more complicated than I should, or need to. While it is fun to stretch the limits of what I can build in a small shop, or to...

REAR BUMPER 1 So at long last it was time to move on to the rear bumper. And as always. We start with a little destruction. Pulling off the stock bumper and cutter the rear frame crossmember out of the way, as well as trimming the body. After that I struggled with it a bit on how to get...

SLIDING 2 After completing the driver side it was off the passenger side which was made more difficult by the cat on the outside of the frame. The rear two mounts were identical to the driver side. The front mount needed to incorporate at skidplate for the CAT that was removable in case I...

SLIDING 1 For the sliders I decided to go with 2x6 rectangular tubing and 2” round tubing for the outside. I want to use at least one of these as a tank for compressed air. I started with the driver side, the easy side. I tied the round and rectangular tubing together with 1/8” plate...

JUST A LITTLE OF THE BOTTOM Ok so I prior to building the sliders I wanted to do some trimming on the body to keep things nice and tight. This wasn’t without incident, see previous picture. Trimming the body is a pain ended up using like every cutting tool I could find, plasma cutter...

Well I don't want to say that the other guys that are posting here aren't right and it isn't a solenoid. Sound like it might be. However, the wiring that connects the transmission to the engine controller (on a 94 they are separate) passes under the PHH, so over time it get corroded with no...

Do your dash lights work for gear selection? if they don't it may mean that the wiring for the transmission gear selector has been compromised. this can cause all sorts of oddities.

ENOUGH HEAT??? So I was able to come up with some 5/8" heater hose for the rear heater bypass. I went even further and removed all the piping that goes from the engine compartment back to the heater. Not sure why I really thought this was a good idea at the time. But once I go into it it...