So nothing exciting to report, Just knocking out things like getting the front hard lines cleaned out as well and painted. The transfer case and transmission have been resealed up, which meant I needed to make progress on the transmission cross member which was stuck on the frame due to one of the captured nuts breaking its spot weld and spinning. I cut it out and using my less than stellar welding skills, got a new nut back inside the frame and welded in to place.
Because the truck previously had a side shift 4 speed and it is getting a top shift 5 speed, the shift holes in the transmission tunnel need to be modified. I need to do more research but i might need to make the tunnel a bit taller also, or maybe lower the cross member a hair...
Gas tank cleaned up well, has an electric fuel pump in it and i am going to run it that way since it seems like it was in like new condition. I am just changing the pickup filter.
Was hoping to clean up the rear portion of the frame by the tank and paint that area that the gas tank would obscure with the hope I wouldn't have to drop the tank again when the bed comes off and i prep and paint the rear portion of the frame. Unfortunately I was picking a lot of grass and pillow material out of the frame and realized it was a rat/mouse nest in the frame. The wire wheel took what looked like a completely solid frame and showed how the Urine somehow became radicalized and ate through the inside portion of the frame. I know that the inner thinner metal isn't nearly as important as the outer thicker C channel, but it has to get fixed. Just didn't have the right gauge sheet metal to cut and repair that portion. So in order to keep my space at a maximum while sitting under there, the tank didn't get put back in or the new soft fuel lines put in, nor did the transmission and transfer case get installed. I got all the fuel hard lines installed and the rear brake hard line is installed.
I rebuilt the LSPV as it is an original ASCO branded one and just used a seal and some stuff from an LSPV I took off of a land cruiser. Got it and the bracket cleaned up and painted.
Installed the new parking brake cables, so now when I role this bad boy out garage, I can hopefully stop it from taking off down the driveway. I've had a moment or two previously of doubt...
So Big thanks to
@dohcdelsol93 for his help and selfless research to help me get my brake booster and mc stuff figured out. Since I am going up a size in calipers up front, the master cylinder had to get bigger so he sold me one for basically the cost of shipping. Now I need to figure out the booster situation as a 94 booster is too large and interferes with the clutch MC. Turns out I need to either make an adapter like this one
Dual Diaphragm Brake Booster In A First Gen - https://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=96435.0 or I need to get another booster that is even harder to find that is a dual diaphragm or just another more narrow one like the 1 ton from a 87 pickup. Pretty expensive new and hard to find used, so I might be making the adapter. Really should have done my homework, but got lazy and put in an order without checking first.
