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haha i bought this one for use as just a 4x4 but things have changed as you can see

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Man, that home-made cowl looks nice. Real nice. It gives me an idea to do to my '92 extra cab. But it's gonna have to be when the snow's gone, it's nice and warm outside, and I have the time to do it. Lol.

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Haha yeah thats been one of the main problems with my project is snow and cold weather also school since the project is over a hour away from where i am but thanks

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Well lucky for me my truck is sitting in the driveway. Well, one's in the driveway, one's outback. But this snow is causing issues; I need to do a bumper swap and I can't. I got in a wreck with my '92 extra cab and the rear bumper is toast, so I'm gonna take the bumper off of my '88 4X4 and put it on my '92, and the rear bumper off of a '93 Dodge Ram my dad had is gonna go on my '88, if we can do enough modifications to make it fit. But, can't do squat in this snow.

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the only thing i can do in the snow is sit around and plow the few driveways that i have to plow

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I get to sit here and stare at a warped and destroyed rear bumper. Lol. It kinda sucks.

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haha s**t happens

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Yup. That's the way I see it. But hey, when the snow's gone, I have somethin' to do.

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update got visor installed and worked on the hood

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more pics

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update again

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Looks good man

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picked up some cherry bomb 3.5'' tips and accel plug wires

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UPDATE: got the speedo working by modifying the dash to use the moonies cluster which i like better... need to fix the blinkers finish my hood get some sort of a bumper and wetsand/buff it and shell be road legal can wait its so close to being done

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well hopefully the truck will be road legal within the next couple of weeks i have to finish my hood and wet sand and buff the the entire truck and its done here are some pics... thats my dad welding because hes better with a stick welder than i am thats also a home made bumper.

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more pics

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more

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and more

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heres a bunch of pics

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loaded up and on her way home

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Looks good, enjoy it!

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thanks i will as soon as i can drive it

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well the rear main seal let go and is leakin oil everywhere i got the motor pulled out today after school been taking pics but forgot camera at garage so pics tomorrow

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It looks good man. Life comes and goes and brings many unexpected things. Enjoy it, you'll never forget the experience.

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thanks

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motors back toget her with a fresh coat of paint hopefully be in tomarrow heres some pics

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Lookin good man. Hey what tires are you running on your stepside? I'm looking for a set of meaty tires to run on my '88 when my Goodyear Tracker Radial 265/75 16s go bald....after I put them back on the truck lol. Haven't put them on my new wheels yet.

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currently on it now is goodyear wrangler td 265-75-16 there a nice tire in the snow and quiet on the road havnt really had them in the mud tho... i would really like 285's on it but money is tight and i stole these off my other truck

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got side windows tinted 20% goning to do the back with 2.5% on thursday

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They look good. When I can get some money I might look into it, but I haven't run my Trackers bald yet, and they're not even on the truck. I put 2000 Silverado wheels on my '88, and the Firestone tires that were on the wheels are still on it...except the front 2 are now flat lol. God I hate Firestone. I took my Goodyears off of the 4X4 wheels, and put low-profile tires on the 4x4 Chevy wheels and put them on my '86 Nissan lol. But once I Run those trackers bald I'm gonna look into some newer tires.

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yeah i got them for 125 a piece mounted and balanced at a local garage and i have the newer rims that i had on this truck but there now on my ext. cab

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motors back in

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did you change that idler pulley on the tensioner to a 6 rib? looks like it.

Also that's weird because I got the exact same bracket setup but my tensioner faces the other side, and I changed mine to 6 rib. makes me think mines wrong or something.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...4/100_3968.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...4/100_3926.jpg

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after looking again it's a smooth pulley you got on it that's not gonna work right. For non a/c it's ribbed and looks like for a 6 rib and the rest of yours is 4 rib.

Mine had a/c on it before I changed it over to 6 rib non a/c

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thats the way it was when i got it. when i get the belt on ill post up some pics.

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that's weird lol but yea snap some pics when ya get it done.

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here you go benoit454 yours is prob the right way compaired to mine