Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

thanks will,

pretty hot today, painted this morning, let em bake all day, put em back on about 8:30 or so tonight. they had a good 8-9 hrs bake time LOl.

Anyways they are back on and done of course, still have to put the wire boots back in place, they aren't locked into the cab yet, just gotta push them in place.

Going to paint the base of my new mirrors, install them, tint the windows hopefully while the door panels are off, and fix the locks. The DS needs a lock pawl retainer clip, hopefully that fixes it, and the PS needs a lock rod clip to hold the rod to the lock pawl arm. it keeps popping off on me.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

lookin good man

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

What did you do with the old step quad headlights?

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

still have them here in a box.

as for prgogress, not much...

had what they called a land hurricane come thru, wiped out the internet, phone and tv for 5 days.

A for the truck it's messed up now, fuel system it clogged up i think, due to low fuel and it being old, injectors don't spray they run or drip, flooded the motor out bad, radaitor is leaking at the heater hose nipple, door handle on the ps broke, one rod clip broke on that side and lost another, so that handle and lock outside don't work.

So now paint is really on hold because I have no cash to do anything with much less fix that crap first before paint.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

I'm sorry to hear about that man, I know about how those fuel systems can get. What were your plans for the old quad lights?

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

sell them I have no need for them.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

How much were you thinking of selling them for? Reason why I ask is I have been trying to hunt down a set for cheap. Truck looks good by the way.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

gonna have to send it pm I don't want my thread locked.

I got a warning or whatever you call it once for the same thing, asked about selling or trading something that was NOT in the for sale section, so yea I'll pm you it'd be best.

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ooops wrong part lol

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Yeah man wouldn't want to get you locked out sorry

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it's alright I didn't know about it either. until that had happened.


as for the build going to try a CTS and see if that fixes the flooding crap. might solder my rad and see if I can fix it.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

started having fuel problems so i removed the TB for a rebuild and clean, dropped the tank to clean it and my sending unit is junk due to rust so I have to change it.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4297.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4294.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4281.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4279.jpg

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

started shaving the Tb down for some ultimate tbi mods.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4301.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4299.jpg

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

and the tank removed yesterday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...4/100_4305.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...4/100_4303.jpg

you can easily see the one twisted/broke line, the other two are broke loose from the sending unit, not to mention at the end my gas hand woul dbouce and drop lower then it should and stay and such, so hope a new sending unit fixes all of that.

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I think i'm done with the tb smoothing now lol..

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...hotos00000.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...hotos00004.jpg

I also ordered my sending unit for the tank.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

Wow that came out nice! How long did it take from start to finish? Did you just use a rotary tool?

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

it took me over the course of 2 days off and on, maybe 4-6 hrs if that total but ONLY because of me doing the end by hand using sand paper.

I used a big grinder to knock off the ridges, then used a grinding stone in an electric drill to rough it out. After that is was just that, ROUGH so I used some 80 by hand, then some 150, wet sand 220, then wet 320 and that is what you see.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

bought my tbi rebuild kit today, have to get some cleaner and do it all tho.

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sending unit came in today, hopefully I can get it put in and the tank back in the truck sometime this weekend or sometime in the very near future at least.

I also have to clean and rebuild the TB, I already have the kit, just gotta get some cleaner.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

cleaned and rebuilt my Tb and then painted my tank as well...


http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4320.jpg
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http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4311.jpg

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got more pics and removed my gas tank crossmember/ support. I'm going to paint it tonight or tomorrow and hit the tank with a 2nd coat same time.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4334.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...3/100_4333.jpg

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

put it all back together and got it running this weekend, washed it, bled the brakes and set the toe. Now I have to try and fix my radiator and tint my windows, then get my door lock rod clips in and fix the stupid handles.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

wow it's been quite some time since I posted.

I fixed the lock rod clips and such, put the interior all back together. I also patched up the leaking rad heater hose nipple, solder, then jb weld so I'll hope it works for now.

The biggest issues was my brakes. I could NOT get a pedal, when the truck off I could get maybe half pedal after pumping, but once running they'd hit the floor and set the brake light. I fought and fought those stupid things. I already had new calipers, pads, shoes and wheel cylinders, and when replacing the parking brake cables I tore a boot on one cylinder, so it got replaced and new hardware kit installed on both sides, as well as new front hoses up front when i rebuilt the front end.

I tore the entire brake system apart, cleaned and blew thru it all with my compressor, ended up changing both rear axle hard lines, no go, changed the master cylinder, still nothing, changed the proportioning valve, nothing.

As most of you know I did away with the RWAl abs crap too, well found out that fitting was leaking, it had a groove in the top for some reason and was leaking down thru the threads. I changed it with a new one, didn't help, so now I was down to one last thing, the rear brake hose. It must have been it, changed it and got a better pedal, drove it around in front of the house some doing emergency stops forward and back to adjust the rears out more and now it's much better.

I think I had a combo of 3 things, one the prop valve, but ONLY after I took it apart, since it started leaking afterwards.

2 the fittings having a nick in it.

3 the rear line swelling inside making it shut off somewhat.

I haven't had it out on the road yet but sometime this week I hope to. First time in months it'll be driven, well besides in and out of the yard.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

Sounds like you've been having some issues there Chris! Besides your brake issues, any new paint updates?

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

none, everything got put on hold for it.

I haven't had any extra cash to get anything so I wasn't able to buy the rest of my paint stuff, much less paint anything.

I most likely won't have anything paint wise until next spring since it's soo late in the year now.

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Ah alright. Well either way, can't wait to see it man

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been drving this thing around again, been doing good.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

Can you get an installed pic of your massaged throttle body? I would be slightly concerned that the spray of the injectors would be getting out of the TB due to you taking off those tabs, but perhaps the suction is enough to keep the fuel going straight down to the blades.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

they sporay downward anyways so it's no worry on the fuel coming out, plenty of ppl have done the same mod.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

Wow, you really have brought this truck a long way!!
Great job!
Keep it goin!

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

Lots of hard work done here, keep it up.
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Any uh, updates on this ol' beast? :lol:

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

nothing, just got some spring hangers in the mail for my future SAS other then that nothing at all.

I've been working on our house, have tons left to do then start on my garage, then maybe get back to buying the rest of the paint supplies so I can paint it. Also got leads on most of the sas parts as well, so it's a toss up which will be first, paint or SAS. Most likely paint because it already doesn't fit in my garage door lol.

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

:lol: I'd go with paint

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

what brand are the lights

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

cheapos from advance forget what brand. I thnk blazer.

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thanks man have two and didnt know what they were
:metal:

Re: My 88 buildup on a tight budget
 

small update, had to order a new temp. gauge(aftermarket) mine stopped working. I also ordered a new TPS for it as well, and all this because I may be taking it to pick up the axle and other parts for my sas, and it'd be about an hour drive from here, one way to get them.

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here's pics of the SAS parts I got...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps17935440.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps6ae3361b.jpg

I have a grand total in all the parts in both pics of a hundred bucks. $70 in gas for the guy who brought them to me, gave them to me for free just paid his gas, and then $30 in gas in the vibe we hauled them home in, which is my father in laws car.

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more pics of all the parts I got for my SAS...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps7103b4a0.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps0832bd26.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps2bfbccfb.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps07a898d8.jpg
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