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I’m staying tuned….

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Spoiler Alert ...or air damn. dam. Glad your back to stuff I understand, crappy metal, clean metal paint, repeat.

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ha ha, luv this comment, I wish I understood metal sometimes

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I hope you think it will be worth it ...

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thanks to a forum buddy who is now a good mate of mine, we put in a 12 hour day yesterday and aside from some non EV things the EV Conversion is ALL done !!!

let's just say we were on a roll and celebrated with each one of us taking a drive around the black, late at night... [ahem] under the cover of darkness (think no headlights) !

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WOOOOOW!!!!! That is one sick looking ride. The ride height is just right. A little wider tire would look good IMO. Man, that grill came out awesome. If only you could work up some type of hide-away headlight covers that would auto hide them. I just wished you lived closer to me so I could see this thing in person. Great build, you have out done yourself with this EV ride.

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My hats off to you on this build, pretty amazing.

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thanks so much, the front end should drop some more once we add the second battery pack in there for an additional 180 pounds, I think if I recall correctly the truck will be slightly lighter than stock with all the fluids in it

and yeah in some pics those missing headlights look like they are hidden and that is indeed cool, but too much maths involved in that nonsense, ha ha

speaking of headlights (I never let a hole go to waste!)

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back to stuff we both understand, as I was cleaning this piece I couldn't help being so impressed with the quality of craftsmanship in it, and also full on serviceability, they just don't make parts like this no more

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Kind of surprised the mirror wasn't replaced by a camera.

Are you going to put a playing card in the tire spokes to make an engine noise?

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ha ha, that is so my wife, I can't stand cameras on cars, I am actually trying to do the opposite and quiet down the Lexus external electric transmission fluid pump (only running at 50% speed) as well as the Tesla Model S electric water pump (only running at 25% speed to keep the noise down)

both use PWM for control and I can't even spell it let alone know how it works [ahem] under the hood

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thank you really appreciate it, I learned a ton in the process


https://media.tenor.com/DHfQs8BKUvIAAAAM/kid-study.gif

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just an Electric Truck doing Electric Truck Things:

Grocery Store: 1.8 miles away


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so got some numbers for you all after the first attempt at a Range Test, I say first attempt cause I did do some dumb things like try to get it up to 75 miles an hour for no reason on streets not freeways

so I ran out of juice after only 20.5 miles, but before you take that to the bank, we were NOT fully charged to begin with (maybe only up to 370 volts I forget, and fully charged is 398) and I only have one of the two battery packs that I own installed at the minute

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People Just Don't Drive That Much No More

not sure where I read this and I should find the link for you, regardless please see if you agree or disagree because I find this interesting and so may you

prior to the C word that closed the world down for 2 years the "average" American drove only an average of 40 miles per day, again stressing the word "average" here as I am fully aware many folks live in rural areas and have to drive 40 miles one way just to get to Piggly Wiggly's yes it's a thang

post the pan dem ic the "average" American now only drives about 21 miles per day, think about it, as you pick up yet another AMAZON package off your front porch, and now with every thing from batteries to a deodorant stick being behind glass doors at Target who want's to go physically shopping at a brick and mortar any more? The convenience is gone!


Average Miles Driven Per Year: Why It Is Important

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Re: My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck
 

so now that we can achieve 88 miles per hour it's about time we strap in, so out with the ol's aftermarket lap belts and in with the MoPar three point harnesseseses out of a 2000 Dodge Ram van

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so the first thing I needed to do is to liberate the stock bracket from the belt drum to give ourselves some wiggle room

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I dunked the cloth belt into some ice water so when I gave the metal some heat it wouldn't go up in flames, seemed to have worked

first I needed to take out all the factory bends and flatten these brackets out so that we could put a nice 90°(ish) bend in them ourselves

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the female sides needed an extension so here's how I handled that, these whatevers with the two loops worked great, except I needed two sets of them as one of them loops is reverse thread and it was useless to me

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and the passenger side was done

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both sides had these flux capacitors, so I just removed them, no room for high tech on this old skool rig

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I can't find the pictures from the junk yard of how these was mounted in that Dodge van, but from what I recall it was rather peculiar in the sense that these are not symmetrical or asymmetrical in other words mirror copies of each other, they both seem to be identical and either can be left or right, passenger or driver

in the van one was mounted to the B pillar and the other to the seat, very strange

anywho, this means that we had to pull out the Uno Reverse Card on one of them (the driver side, so a bit more fandangling) which explains why we drill out them rivets

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Meanwhile back to the riveting question, Big help, I know....Good to see you have had some successful test drives.

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today was a fun day

um... HUSTON ?

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time for the dirty finger hole transfer method