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03-21-2012, 07:49 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Love it..!!! Projects like this that are "out of the norm" is why I love being a gearhead..
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03-25-2012, 09:21 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Finished up the fab of attachment points for the GM rear xcab seat.
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03-25-2012, 09:30 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
This foot locker came back from Iwo and Japan with my father after WWII. I used it to move to Germany in the early 80's and it has been in the attic for most of the last 20 yrs. But now it has become my "quick-release" storage chest for the truck. The jack, fire extinguisher and other odds and ends will go into it. It stays put using some brackets and anchor points I put into the rear floor of the bed just ahead of the tail gate.
The brackets/anchor points keep the chest from going forward and the tail gate traps it from moving rearward. When I need to haul something big I just pop the chest loose from the anchor points and stow it to the side. The anchor points are low profile and are flush with the tops of the floor ribs in the bed so they don't interfere with cargo. |
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03-25-2012, 09:34 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
I also grafted 4 tie-down loops out of my 95 Burb and put weld nuts under my bed floor. Two up near the cab and two behind the fender wells. I love these things. Very handy for keeping the junk stationary.
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03-25-2012, 10:22 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Nice adds..you buildin a bed cover so that foot locker doesn't walk away..
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03-26-2012, 08:39 AM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
 Looks like shes going to be a working truck
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04-03-2012, 02:14 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Pic 1 is of three little brackets I fabbed up. The two with the blue arrows will hold the ECM and the little post under the yellow arrow holds the main relay box.
Pic 2 shows the ECM and relay box installed. Pic 3 is another one of my quick-release toolbox freshly painted with satin black. |
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04-03-2012, 07:31 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Great work on the clip flip, and seat work. The chest is a sweet addition as well. Man your monkey gets a work out. Does that sound right?
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04-04-2012, 09:53 AM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
The sock monkey has to go into the trunk! Everyone needs a Suburban Trunk Monkey!
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05-03-2012, 08:19 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Halfbreed has to work once in awhile.
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05-03-2012, 08:22 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
I have the stance where I like it. All it takes is 6 to 10 sacks of concrete in the bed.
I'm running around with a naked nose job right now. Good thing I am in SoCal and mostly inland where the humidity is low enough I can get away with this for awhile. Last edited by sparkydog; 05-03-2012 at 08:39 PM. |
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05-03-2012, 08:32 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
It is time that I publicly retract my statement on post #503 where I implied that my sister-in-law caused the great propane explosion of Christmas 2011. (Not that she will ever read any of this... but it's the thought that counts.)
Turns out that my bro in law (not married to said SIL) saved the stove carcass and later on he got to studying the stove and discovered that the oven door spring had been rubbing into the side of the gas pipe and finally (while we were cooking our bird) it rubbed a hole into the pipe. So sorry SIL Jill, I take it back. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time when that thing lit off! |
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05-03-2012, 09:53 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
WOW.... That looks like someone my have a claim...Very bad design flaw
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05-03-2012, 11:09 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Wow, crazy! I'm usually one of the last to say "lawyer up" but you could actually save a lot of other people's lives if that truely is a design flaw. I'm assuming that's how it came from the factory and the only connection made in the home is the gas hose at the bottom?
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05-03-2012, 11:15 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Your truck is coming along great! too bad about the cook stove fiasco.
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05-04-2012, 10:20 AM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
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06-08-2012, 10:24 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
I saw this truck in the Home Depot lot today, what a project, I just had to ask questions. I waited some time for the owner to appear, but what a conversion we had. What Steve has done makes my project look like kids play. I really am looking forward to watching the progress. Thanks Steve for all the insight.
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07-16-2012, 11:56 AM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
It's finally in one color! (Epoxy base coat)
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07-16-2012, 12:04 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Sweet! Lookin good!
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07-16-2012, 12:18 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Just keeps getting better!
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07-16-2012, 05:57 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
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07-16-2012, 06:30 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Awesome!
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07-16-2012, 06:50 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
You forgot a spot
Looks great! Posted via Mobile Device
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07-17-2012, 09:43 AM
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07-17-2012, 08:11 PM
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Re: Halfbreed - GMC Z71 + IH Extd Cab
Very clean looking. I like it better each time I see it.
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