Jack's truck
 

We lost my Father in Law the beginning of August. I ended up with his old fishing truck. Had quite a few good fishing trips with him in this old truck. I am going to try to fix it up a bit. I think he would have liked to see it cleaned up.
Where I started:

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Had to correct the altitude. 4-6 drop, Bell-tech spindles and flip kit, cut one coil from stock springs.

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Looks great. It's ready to go fishing. :)

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Changed the work truck grille for the fancy stuff with a billet insert.

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I was just checking yours out. Amazing how similar out trucks started out.

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Subscribing.
What else is planned for this truck?

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Changed out the wheels and tires thanks to Jon.

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Its a 4.3 5spd truck with 190k+ miles on it. Still runs great, although smokes a tad sometimes. Going to try to even the paint out by buffing the basecoat out. All the clearcoat came off the first time I pressure washed it.

I have a rollpan to install, and a wish list of things I would like to do eventually. For now I am just going to drive it and be thankful I have another project finally.

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Subscribed -- looks good. You can really tell where that bugshield was!

Glad you got a cool new project, but sorry for your loss.

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So True. I see yours and mine and the only difference is the color. Keep it going. I love it even more now that I put in the automatic. Soon a bigger motor. :sumo:

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I keep telling him.... a 6.0/4l80e would look right @ home in there :devil: .

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I am tired of the 5spd already, so a auto swap is definately in the plans. 6.0, 4l80 sounds like a good plan. Wonder where I could find a combo like that. ;)

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Hhmmmm....

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What a transformation. Keep it up!

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Where are the pics of the 'new' center caps? Maybe try & get a pic of the old caps w/the lug nut covers too??

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l'll get some pics tonight.

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Have been getting a little done. Picked up some new caps from Hubcap Kingdom in Tulsa. I was expecting some take off caps, ended up with what was a make ready package that would have shipped with a Safari van when new.
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Also ran a buffer over it to try to even out the paint a bit.

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Also finally got the roll pan installed. The color is way off, I will reshoot it soon.
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Also repainted the wheels. Not sure i like it though, any suggestions are welcome.
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Uhmm, you know my vote ;) . Roll pan looks good considering how it was done. Too bad the color wasn't lighter. Where's the 'updated' grille pics?

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I like the grey wheels better , but let me say you have done a great job with this truck . I enjoyed reading through the build and really like the truck and its evolution . Keep up the good work .

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I will get a pic of the grille when I get back to town.
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I like the darker wheels. And I recently got some flat 88-98 caps the same way -- truck got custom wheels at the dealer before the caps even got mounted. They were in awesome shape.

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How about a set of 20x8.5 and 20x10 Boss 338's.
The offsets were designed for these trucks.

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I tried already.... Not in his current budget.