Well, I have put a huge amount of time into getting this beast up to snuff.
My goal is to have a good, reliable and capable truck to use for work. I am most interested in useing the winch to move rocks and logs on my property. So just so you all know this is a working rig and not a show truck so I did indeed cut some corners and use some less expensive materials both to stay in a budget and for the sake of time savings.
When I purchased this 77' 40 about a year ago, it needed attention. Here are some of the things I did to get it buttoned up. And I do have some 33" mud tires going on there, these are for the road...
There was also a bit of work done by Spencer when I first picked it up. He welded up some braces for the front bumper, adjusted the lifters and replaced a lock core in one of the doors. That was about as much as I could afford to sub out so I got busy after that...
Phase 2 will consist of changing out the manifold gasket, (2F). Then some fine tuning to get the motor purring. Right now it does run pretty good, with good compression on all 6. But there is a small vaccumm leak keeping it from being 100%.
Phase 3...Power steering. I have a ton of mini truck parts.
My goal is to have a good, reliable and capable truck to use for work. I am most interested in useing the winch to move rocks and logs on my property. So just so you all know this is a working rig and not a show truck so I did indeed cut some corners and use some less expensive materials both to stay in a budget and for the sake of time savings.
When I purchased this 77' 40 about a year ago, it needed attention. Here are some of the things I did to get it buttoned up. And I do have some 33" mud tires going on there, these are for the road...
There was also a bit of work done by Spencer when I first picked it up. He welded up some braces for the front bumper, adjusted the lifters and replaced a lock core in one of the doors. That was about as much as I could afford to sub out so I got busy after that...
- Hooked up the brakes, ran some lines and ironed out the issues with the 1/2 installed 4wheel disks.
- Finished installing the 4" HFS lift, needed castor shims, shackles etc.
- Tuned the motor, all new fluids filters etc.
- All new seals/felts in doors and hardtop.
- bedliner in the floors front & rear. New carpet and headliner.
- Painted rollbar, seats f&r, basically all the little stuff.
- Re alligned all of the frontmost body panels, rebolted., basically rebolted a ton of stuff.
- New battery and ironed out problem with the alt and other electrical issues, voltage regulator and signals, horns wipers.
- Dropped the hardtop at a votech school where they filled the big holes with metal. I then finished it off with bondo to make acceptible.
- Installed new stereo and speakers.
- painted exterior, roof, bumpers etc.
- fixed issues with loose steering, (still non power), new tre's, aligned it with toe in adjustment.
Phase 2 will consist of changing out the manifold gasket, (2F). Then some fine tuning to get the motor purring. Right now it does run pretty good, with good compression on all 6. But there is a small vaccumm leak keeping it from being 100%.
Phase 3...Power steering. I have a ton of mini truck parts.
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