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Did you buy that x member kit? Nice work btw, i have stock s10 frame still but that looks like it would be beneficial

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Pieces arrived, show quality as promised. Now just need to score some fair priced straight runs (actually have a curve in the end to follow the bed trim line). The place in Canada wants $300 each for the four pieces.

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No billet for this build.

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i made a little progress on my heat/ac unit. the issue is that I have a 10 plus year old unit from "hot rod air" that has never run. I'm missing all the interior parts except the evaporator. I have been talking with "vintage air" to see if their controls and replacement parts will work. their exceptional customer service has led me to some answers. the hot rod air unit uses electric servos for the a/c and the vintage air controls will work on that no problem. the heat on the hot rod air unit is vacuum. vintage air is all electric. they sell a conversion kit to change the vacuum heat to electric. I'm pricing all the missing parts I need and the conversion kit to see if I'm going to do that or purchase a complete interior only kit that has a new evaporator and all the needed interior parts. it will be a cost based decision. I know the conversion will be cheaper than the kit but once I add all the bits and pieced the cost difference may not be as large as I'm thinking. if its just a couple hundred difference I will be a lot more comfortable with a new kit with all matching parts.

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Originally tried putting my fuel pump near the front of the truck and had fuel issues when I was sitting on a hill. Moved it to the rear and "while I was there" ran hard lines to clean up the engine. Anyone know if I can run hard lines for vacuum and PCV lines too? Would look sweet to get rid of all those rubber tubes.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4748/...22f2b11b74.jpg

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Got a start on my exhaust

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So far so good, welder ran out of shielding gas

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Seems to always be the case...shield gas running out right in the middle of a project. I just ran out of wire the other day when I had just started welding up some brackets on a Sunday no less. Ugh.

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I know of no reason you can't run hard lines, am using hard lines on mine, my original had a hard vacum line, just make sure pcv line is big enough im using 3/8

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Looks super clean. You are much more perfectionistic on those joints than me. No doubt it will pay off in a clean-appearing and leak-free junction.

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LOL, I didnt take pics of the gaps and not quite straight areas, have cut a bunch spot welds and had to redo.

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I had all my 50 gauges rebuilt but now that i dropped a 01 ls1 i am thinking i might just modify my dash to accept similar year gauges into my dash since i dont care for the style and cost of the aftermarket ones i have seen. Has anyone put modern car or truck gauges (salvage Yard) in a 47 to 53?

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Yes, I bought it. I was looking for pre-made boxing plates and found these, they were actually almost $200 cheaper then the boxing plates!No Limit X-Member Kit

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Got the topside and sides of the frame painted today!

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I have seen it done a lot so I know it's feasible.

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Had some time to kill while the parts I painted were drying so I whipped up a column mount for the tach out of a chunk of aluminum. The mount that came with the gauge cup was pretty fugly...

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Curious, what material you used? Automotive grade paint or something like Rustoleum? Looks nicely done!

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I pulled out my window regulators today to starting installing my side windows and wind wings. The rollers are partly broken and they’re all frozen solid. They don’t rotate at all.

I bought new rollers from CPP awhile back and finally opened the envelope today to see they come with new rivets. I wasn’t sure how to go about installing them until it occurred to me to check YouTube. Sure enough, Danchuk has a short video telling you how to replace them for a TriFive car - whose regulators are essentially identical to our TF trucks.

Here’s the video. There may be others.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1rok1yN9s

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It's easy to keep the stock gauges.

Use this for the speedo: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/dak-ecd-100-1

And this for the oil pressure:https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-g6326

Then you can drill and tap the head for the temp sensor.

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IT'S ALIVE!!!

https://youtu.be/Cyg7r1fW-rM

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congrats man!! awesome feeling aint it!

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Made a carb heat shield out of aluminum

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Installed new 32/36 weber on my 250 inline 6 and works pretty good

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Nice