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And right you are. :lol: I didn't get half done to this thing this weekend because I am waiting for paint to dry. Thank you humidity. :waah:

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Hey...

Try being in vancouver canada......I should have built a boat with all the rain we have had lately. If i glass bead something in the morning it better have primer on it by lunch or it's rusted again.....ugh

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I'd take some of your rain for ya! This heat isn't bringing much rain. We have no shortage of humidity though. It's about the same as far as bare metal here. It gets hard to paint any thing too, unless you have the proper facility. Which I don't. :lol:

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We have had some wicked thunderstorms.....just brutal ...but things are supposed to be getting better for next week again which would really make things so much easier to buid.

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Nice progress Ryan!

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i just noticed that i was the #1000 post....

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Thanks Nate. Are you going to be able to make the Nats this year?

Wow, 1000 posts and this thing is still a half a truck. :lol:

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Get on it! :lol:

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We are going to try and make it this year. Worst case it might be for just one day (Saturday) but that's better than not making it at all. :D

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I hear ya there!

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An old mechanic once showed me his shop cooler. He took a truck radiator and ran his well water through it. With his huge squirrel cage fan it will freeze you out on 100* + days. But in montana we think it gets humid when it hits 25%

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thats the thing i was talking about , it would actually pull the humminity down too as most air condences on the radiator and drops of as water

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We just got a small swamp cooler at work. Our shop has one bay 35'x85' and another that is 35'x30'. The ceiling is 25' or higher. We have been using the cooler the past week and a half. The side that the cooler is blowing on does feel a little better. The side that the water exchanger is on feels like a green house. So as long as you're in the area of the air it blows out, you're ok. :lol:

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His well water must be super cold! A car radiator wouldn't cut it here. :lol:

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Hay Ryan do you have any new pics of your Longhorn? I have a fiend here that is puting a 12 valve in his 70 chevy.His work makes me look like Gomer Pile. I think you wold it. I cant wait to see your LH. when it is finished.

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You remember Gomer Pile??? (you must be old and stuff!!):lol:

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Randall, sorry no new pics of it. I do have new pics of the 88 Burb i'm putting a 12v in though. I just have to get them uploaded.

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Hay wade! It takes one to know one.
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So true!

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It's about 50* degrees out of my well. The deeper you go, the colder it gets (to a point).

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I think you are better off with what you have.Engine/trans awaps are easier than body swaps the biggist problem with these trucks when swapping bodys is the front ends are kind of short and getting tha coer support and front wheels right can be a pain. also the frame width like you said, there isnt much room to move outwards on the rear cab mounts.

You are almost there why make more work for yourself?:lol:
I know I can't stop myself either!

I had a hell of a brain fart the other day. We have a couple mid 40s 1 1/2 ton GMC trucks and not enough good front sheet metal.
I was thinking It wouldnt be that hard to make a shorter version of a ww2 duece and a half using dodge 1ton parts. Call it a half duece.
It would match my 42 jeep. Now all i need is a 4 bamger perkins for the jeep:lol:

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Something like this Chevy 7107 / G506 ?

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How far back did you find that post? That had to be atleast 2-3 years back I posted that. :lol:

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yeah, only scaled to fit the smaller frame and running gear.

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It came up when I clicked on the last page. I didn't look at the date:lol:
And I thought the computer was smarter than I am! Looks like it's a tie:lol:

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:thud: you had me sweating there when i first read you were planning on starting over with the longhorn idea. I'm happy to hear that was just a previous idea before this masterpiece happened. good luck on the final touches, keep the pics coming!

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No, the cab isn't coming off the frame on this truck again for a long time. (If I do a crew cab) :lol:

No new progress on this thing. But the headliner did fall half down and I tore it as I ripped it the rest of the way off. Stupid POS. :lol: I'll be getting a new one now.

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Here's some progress guys! I got the RH frame rail support made, I smoothed out where I had to clearance the frame for the primary turbo, and got the front portion of the frame ready for paint. Then I painted it with POR-15 gloss black.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/IMG_0033.jpg
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http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/IMG_0034.jpg
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http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/IMG_0041.jpg

I also got my shipment from DIY4X which had my RH spring mount for the D60. I put it on, but have to heli-coil the housing as one hole is stripped out.
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...n/IMG_0040.jpg

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shes deffinetly comin along! lookin good buddy.

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Thanks Adam!

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looks great man!
:lol:this reminds me of a guy I used to work for we built scintific testing machines and Jim the )owner of the companyband smartest man I have ever known)Would pulling parts off machines and redesigning them as fast as the guys were assembeling the machines.:lol:

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Do you figure you will be able to drive it this fall? it sure will be worth all the time!

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I'm hoping too. I'm taking it to the All Truck Nats in KC September 7th so it will help if I can drive it. It gets old pushing them around. :lol:

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Thanks. I was really worried how that was going to turn out, and it turned out pretty nice. I doubt it will break either. :lol:

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what did you do exactly? looks like you fab'ed a "bulge" piece and cut out the existing frame rail? hard to tell with all that shiny black paint and the camera angles :)

either way, looks better than a decimated flange on the stock rail and a lot stronger

Ryan

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Well after doing the steering box bracing on the 88 burb, I had an idea. I just basically put a plate on the out side of the frame, one on top and one on the bottom. This is almost like a sleeve around the stock frame. It added more lip to the areas where I cut out. I welded it all on and included the front cross member in to it via 2 bolt holes. The brace goes past the engine cross member area, so it should be stout.

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oh, i see better now. it sure looks like beef. i got all confused by the plate that the front crossmember bolts in with. made me think you had completely cut the stock rail.
ryan

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Dieselwrencher, I've read this whole thread. It took me 5 days at work (mobile generator tech)to read it all. Very nice work.

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Very nice progress Ryan! Keep at it buddy.