Recent content by steffan

Too funny - I should be embarrassed or maybe that shows how rare they are? In the 15 years I’ve been reading this section,I don’t remember having seen those

OK, I'll be the one to ask - what are those doors?

if I remember correctly, there have been a few on here that have done that at home with simple, easily accessible equipment. it was slow and a lot of work but the results looked great

Love the City Racer - purchase quite a bit from him and have always been very happy

how it mounted in the box. some high density foam to keep the accessories from rattling

the finished product after painting it with some spray can bed liner. some light foam on one side just because (not really needed)

Just wanted to throw this out there - a cheap, easy to find option for jacks. This is a bottle jack out of a full sized GM truck: Tahoe/ Pickup etc. The wrecking yards almost give them away and it's a solid jack, hight capacity with good range of lift. This is for my '72 so I wanted to place it...

to do it correctly, you really need to measure your travel from full droop to full compression. the amount of lift is only part of the equasion: some trucks stand 2" above stock but with different springs they have twice the suspension travel - the shocks will limit the range of motion

I like the double stacked washers on the shock bushings... also looks like the shocks are almost full compression? doesn't look like anything you couldn't fix

Im thinking the same thing - doesn’t look that bad. With a good torch, you could easily heat it up and get it perfectly straight

SWEET!

From the picture - the tailgate actually looks decent even if its flimsy

What rainingagain said! I’ve tried other methods but the only way I’ve found to get a good consistent, long lasting seal is to put a very light coat of a good gasket sealant (FIPG etc) on both sides of the gasket

It’s hard for me to get a good feeling of how bad the rust really is. In some,places it’s obviously horrible but in others it doesn’t look too bad. The market has come way down for these trucks so you probably wouldn’t make much on it. As others have said, it seems mechanically sound… I’d just...

Good write up - I was always told and lived to find out myself, nothing is truly ‘bolt on’