Project Ru5tyNut5

[CHIZZLER]

one task at a time.

[CHIZZLER]

theres a guy in battleground parting a 77. check it on cl.

[Ru5tyNut5]

I think it might be the guy I got my driveline from, is it a stepside? if so then he offered me the frame, bed, doors, and hood for $400 but I can get a whole truck minus motor and trans for that I think, so don't think I want to pay that for it.

[CHIZZLER]

it is a stepside. just thought i would throw it out there. what are you plans for bringin the front down.

[Ru5tyNut5]

I appreciate you throwing it out there, always good info to have. A guy stopped me today to tell me if I needed any parts he could hook me up cheap, he gave me his number.

I have spindles but my gas tank barely off the ground when it's all the way down now, I'd rather not have my tank dragging. I need some sort of fuel cell in a much higher location then I can probably put my spindles in. also a little concern about the full length headers that hang down below the frame.

[CHIZZLER]

i just got done changing my headers last weekend cause of the same problem. i found some block huggers used for $80. is your tank on the frame.can you just move it up.

[Ru5tyNut5]

don't think there's room to go up cuz it's under the cab, not really sure I guess.

[CHIZZLER]

fuel cell or a frame mounted tank. you can probably make anything work since you have the bed all open.

[Ru5tyNut5]

yea, I've never done anything with a tank other than on motocross bikes so not sure what the hell to do yet. can't wait to figure it out so I can figure out how to put the spindles on, just need more time staring at it I guess.

[CHIZZLER]

figure it out. make it work.thats what i do.

[Ru5tyNut5]

that's what'll happen, just a matter of when.

[CHIZZLER]

cruise in at the bomber in milwaukie on sunday. might be worth checkin out.

[Ru5tyNut5]

this whole "bagging it" thing was like a year in the making and had the truck undriveable for like a month so I'm just stoked to be able to drive it as it is right now. I'll figure the tank thing out soon enough,

[Ru5tyNut5]

yea, I was thinkin about the bomber thing, we'll see how it plays out. there's also some saturday night thing near the Home Depot off Johnson Creek or something.

[CHIZZLER]

i know what you mean. my truck started out as a 3/4 long bed. we had to cut the leaf springs out and change it out to trailing arm. at the same time added bags and power steering and disk brakes. it sat for over a year. then after i got it on the road blew the tranny and it sat for almost six months and decided to cut it down to a short bed and change the tranny at the same time. im just glad i might be able to drive it for the summer.

[Ru5tyNut5]

when you shortened the frame did you Z it too?

[CHIZZLER]

no. i just had it cut along with the bed. dan at sick industries in vancouver does killer work. i just bought a 63 short bed truck with no bed for $250. im going to start over with the frame and put a drop member in the front and backhalf the back.

[Ru5tyNut5]

ah, cool...here's a pic from my phone.....

[CHIZZLER]

i thought i saw your truck at dans house. that pic looks more recent then 2 months ago when i was there.

[Ru5tyNut5]

like a month ago, my truck sat at his house for a few weeks. I was helpin out around the shop for awhile and I did my notch at his house then brought it home and did everything else. is your truck the one that was there getting shortened for awhile while I was helping out there?

[CHIZZLER]

this is what it looked like at dans.

[Ru5tyNut5]

yea, that's the one, I've seen your truck a lot then, saw a lot of the work getting done on it. then didn't you bring the bedsides back to be finished up later?

[CHIZZLER]

yup. he finished them up a little bit. i got it back and did the paint job.

[Ru5tyNut5]

this is what I did on mine at Dan's shop

I drove it home like and did the rest here

[CHIZZLER]

nice work.kids cryin.catch up later.