Recent content by StevoJonesFJ60

That's what it ended up being for me too! Thanks for the input. I finally got it all together, all the wiring is done and its ready for some drives around the neighborhood. Apparently my neighbors aren't too keen on the noise from it though, while taking it for some test spins around the circle...

So this time it was user error, I thought I reconnected all the wires after swapping the body. One power line got missed. Brake lights work now. Now I just have to figure out where I have a short in my tail light circuit, as it blows the fuse immediately once I turn my headlights on. :bang:

Some of the opening, Glamour shot of the equipment making some booze too! The last trip was up to Massachusetts. Helped improve the efficiencies at a distillery and got to run this beautiful still. Was able to improve their proof gallon recovery rate by 25% and had a blast with the...

I spent most of the summer doing an upfit for a local client. Steam pipe welding, equipment installation and recipe development. It was a ton of work, but it turned out awesome, he just had his grand opening and they killed it with a huge turnout.

Been busy with distillery clients too. Took a trip to help setup some clients making Soju in Georgia. Nice little distillery with a 200 Gallon electric still. Took another trip up to upstate NY to a client who is wrapping up a distillery. 1000 Gallon still, with whiskey and vodka columns...

I had to swap the pilot bearing too, since the transmission had a different input shaft. Out came the bread. I took some pictures this time of the process for those who have never used this method before. Any bread will do: Stuff as much as you can in the bearing opening. Then use a dowel...

Next up was getting it ready for the road, I drove it on the tow dolly but noticed it didn't want to go into 2/3rd gear, even though it felt like the shifter engaged fully. It turns out the transmission I picked up had a bent shift fork. :bang: I only paid$400 for it so I wasn't too surprised...

Once I got the garage setup at the new house a bit it was time to bring this thing home. Mostly so it wasn't tying up space in my buddy's shop. Made myself a little welding table. Then got a dolly to bring the beast home. I needed to swap over to some rollers to get it to fit. In its...

So its been way too long since I have done an update. The spring summer was nuts with work, plus other things that came up along the way. First things first, the old pump was shot so bought a new one The new pump was slightly different, no manual fuel shutoff so I had to wire in the solenoid...

Injection pump is leaking bad, the cost of a rebuild it 75% of a new pump, so looks like a new pump is in the works. In the middle of buying a house so the pump will have to wait until after all the bank stuff closes, but the highligh of it is I will soon have my own garage to work in!!!

There will hopefully be a bunch more of that stuff to come, getting a client set up locally to me. I also have a rum distillery to set up in LA, an agave distillery in Isreal, and a whiskey distillery in Japan. I hope ill also get the truck driving soon. The IP is leaking pretty bad, so I am on...

Looks like it was a fun build for sure, what transmission are you running? Love the custom shifter.

It's been a crazy year so far, working and whatnot has been eating up a lot of my time. But things have progressed on the build. Added in a muffler, it was too loud without it and I didnt want to be "that guy" in the neighborhood with the loud truck. Worked on the brakes and added in a...

Next up is wiring, I picked up some gausges to make sure i dont cook my new turbo. I also wanted to have a backup RPM gauge in case my toyota one isnt thrilled with the input signal from the alternator. Still working on getting the engine bay wiring cleaned up, but im about 80% there. While...

Back to the truck. I finally got my driveshaft in, only took 14 weeks. Installed that and then once I confirmed all the geometry looked good, welded in the rear suspension completely. Started work on my anti wrap bar as well. Axle mount Frame heim tie in Triangle bar Did some test...