Recent content by raisinhell2

Let it rain !!!! We sure need it . Lake Havasu rose over 5 ft in just 3 days. 2 more months of this we just make make it back to normal...

Found some nice sheet metal under all that wool-wax! Spent most of the morning prepping the underside for the lizard skin spray on sound deadening . This was a total pain in the a$$ but so worth it . Frame is painted should start re assembly on Monday

Pay someone else to do it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we did this 1 in a 3 step process because someone used it to hide everything it was real thick . You can see how think in the drive shaft pics. Round 1 4 cans of foamy gunk shot it let it soak over night pressure washed it . 2nd step on...

All clean. Interior has all the old sound deadening removed ready for the dyna matt. Fixing a few small rust spots we found hiding under the woolwax.. Before anyone brings it up I know I did not miss my calling as a body man. But rust is out new metal is in .

It's raining grease!!!!!! We're cleaning the WoolWax anti-rust treatment off the underside of this rig. What a mess! This stuff is basically oil, now mixed with dirt and grease, and it's EVERYWHERE! Just another one of those dirty jobs that comes with the restoration process. Nobody said...

Any entry level tire tech should have found the hammer marks on the hub . Even more so When the person I bought it from Had the PPI done telling them it had a wobble. I know when we do PPIs we take the wheels off...The trunion bearings not during a PPI. I can only think it was done chasing the...

Almost to the part i really enjoy reassembly of the clean and new parts.. Took a few days of thinking to see if I trusted HF dollies and jack stand enough to use to roll the body and frame out for its final undercarriage wash. So far so good it sat all weekend and the wheel didnt break...

Good Times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only problem with that was the ass hat coming over and asking you guy to be quiet cause he was trying to sleep and making me wait until the morning to ask you guys how it ended hahah

The one on the right in the pic goes upstream. It has heat protection on the wiring not reg loom . that one live right opver the cat

1 or 2 more days of stripping a few days of cleaning a few days of paint and body (parts and chassis) Then reassembly. Nothing over the top. Just A tastefully modified close to OEM restore. I'm calling this a stage 2.5 body on restore, Because the body is in nearly perfect shape. Mini Is...

Looks good Dave .. I'm kinda with Matzell I'm missing the 1 ton part as well . 25k a axle ?

Now for some " I just don't understand why " This rig has a mystery shake . Just short of death wobble. The PO had chased this for some time . new steering linkage new frt drive shaft knuckle rebuild .. What I found frt and rear drive shafts out of phase . Didn't cure the shake . On the...

Day 2 almost stripped down . The chassis and underside of the body are in real nice condition. Found a few minor rust spots in odd places.

Here we go again . We don't normally get donors in this nice of shape. The lack of rust may spoil us . A 97 triple locked collectors edition came across our path. It' was someone's mistake off BAT sadly about the only thing good on this rig was the body. Through out this thread I will point...

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