Project "River Truck" - CCLB 4x4

[Budman56]

I think if you did this again the process is good up to the material, thats were I would stop and take it to a shop and have them spay it with bed liner and then you can paint to match after that all done.

[arrover]

I read a thread somewhere where that was done and it worked well. I think they may have used bondo in the cracks. I just didn't want a bedliner coverd dash.

[arrover]

Nothing to exciting going on with the truck. I was changing the front and rear diff fluid and found that the pilot bearing in the rear (14 bolt FF) was gone. All of the bearing rollers were stuck to the magnet at the bottom of the rear end. Installing the new pilot bearing wasn't too bad.

Couple of tiny projects over the last couple of days:
I cleaned the shifter boot and painted the trim ring and screws. Do you like my carpet? It was originally red....

[arrover]

One of the previous owners had installed some threaded rings through bed floor in order to tie down loads. I need tie downs in the bed but having them in the bed floor won't let me use a bed mat. Today I bought some stainless threaded rings and replaced the bottom bolt that attaches the front bed panel to the side panel. I backed the rings with some large washers and nylock nuts. These won't be for holding lots of weight. Just to keep things from rolling around or sliding out the back when the tailgate is down.