Daddyjeep Hauler - 85 K30 crew cab short bed

[daddyjeep]

I finally got all my welds ground down and seam sealed all the welds on the floor and basically everywhere inside the cab. Hopefully this weekend i can get all the body work done on the rockers and corner.

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[MTCK]

Nice work. I can't recall are you going to paint the whole thing or just repaired sections?

[daddyjeep]

Originally Posted by MTCK

Nice work. I can't recall are you going to paint the whole thing or just repaired sections?

Um....I'm going to do both. Right now I need to get it together and functional. Things will get repaired and rattle canned. My fenders are nice on the outside, but some of the inner structure is bad. My doors are pretty bad on the bottoms as well. Before I paint it I want to get some better doors and fenders. Hopefully That won't take me too long, but with my lack of both time and money who knows. Once I have all good panels it will get a nice custom paint job. I am still kicking around ideas for that. Right now I am thinking a white and grey two tone with a bright orange separation line between the colors.

[daddyjeep]

This is a quick photoshop of a random white truck I found.

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[made2drag]

nice metal work! the flashlight pic was funny!

[daddyjeep]

I finally finished my rendering showing all the custom things I want to build for the truck. I am building the bumpers, making some sort of custom grill, and making a custom hood. The rendering also will be my final paint scheme.

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I picked up another hood to start building my newer HD inspired hood for my favorite price...free. It had a little dent in the middle with some old bondo that was chipping off. I ended up cutting the bad section out anyway so that is not an issue.

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I took off all the paint to see how the hood was overall and aside from a couple small dings it is pretty good. It is hard to see, but I laid out some lines on where the different levels are going to end up.

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I am following the angle of the outer body line on the hood for all of the steps and will be raising the center 4" overall and the first step 2"...I think. I will mock things up to see how it looks before I make the side panels. I at least got the center piece cut out. I cut 10" out of the center of that to shorten it up front to back. This will create the opening for the ram air.

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The center is sitting on a couple 2x4's in the pic. Again, I am not sure on the overall height yet.

Does anyone have any experience with ram air? I am wondering about driving in the rain. Is there typically anything done to prevent the water from getting to the air cleaner?

[MTCK]

Love the rendering. I'm sure that hood will turn out awesome.

[tinydb84]

Very cool hood idea. Cant wait to see what it turns out like.

[COS399]

I like the direction you are headed with your project. I have no clue on your ram air question but I'm sure someone will chime in.

[87max]

Great project, nice work.

[Dieselwrencher]

I used to have a Cervinni's ram air hood on my 97 powerstroke. The very first bad rain I drove it in after I got all the ram air functional, nearly hydro locked the engine. I ended up drilling drain holes in the ducts I had built. That wasn't enough, I had to angle the "floor" of the ducts toward the drain holes and that helped. That still wasn't enough and I had to put some screen over the duct. I used some from a lund grill I took off a wrecked truck. All of that finally kept it happy.

[daddyjeep]

Thanks Diesel, that is the info I was looking for. I have some thoughts with some baffles of some kind and a drain.

[daddyjeep]

One more rendering showing a straight on front view. I wasn't real busy at work today so I threw this together.

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[Hewfil1]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

One more rendering showing a straight on front view. I wasn't real busy at work today so I threw this together.

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New profile picture material?

[daddyjeep]

Originally Posted by Hewfil1

New profile picture material?

Done...good idea

[NastyBuzzard]

I love the hood idea...

I really wish I could make one like this for my crew cab I am building.

[daddyjeep]

Originally Posted by NastyBuzzard

I love the hood idea...

I really wish I could make one like this for my crew cab I am building.

Go ahead then. I really don't know if I have the welding and body work skills to pull this off, but I'm going for it. This type of large flat panel welding will separate the men from the boys and we will see where I fall in that category.

[NastyBuzzard]

I know my welding skills are no where near good enough. My friend has the skills though. However, it is quite a job to get him motivated to come weld anything. Maybe when I get closer to that point, we shall see.

[Hewfil1]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

Done...good idea

It's perfect!

[daddyjeep]

I got a little more done on the hood. Still a long way to go.

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[Hewfil1]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

I got a little more done on the hood. Still a long way to go.

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I love how it's looking so far!

[daddyjeep]

I got some side panels started for the hood and finalized the height. This is going to take me some hours to get this thing right. I already have some low spots where I need to cut my welds and try again. This thin material is every bit as challenging as I expected.

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The corners are going to be a bit of a challenge too, but I will worry about that later after I get the main structure of things done.

[daddyjeep]

I'm going to post this here so I can reference it later. It appears to be a pretty good cheap sound deadener/insulation.

http://www.lobucrod.com/index.html

[daddyjeep]

More welding and grinding last night. I got the second side panel trimmed and tacked in. I fixed one of the low spots in the first level only to develop two more as I was filling in tacks. The second level is much easier because I cut the sub structure out of the donor hood and tacked it to the bottom to support it. I may have to add some structure to the first level, of course I will have to do that from the hole in the hood now.

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[moregrip]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

More welding and grinding last night. I got the second side panel trimmed and tacked in. I fixed one of the low spots in the first level only to develop two more as I was filling in tacks. The second level is much easier because I cut the sub structure out of the donor hood and tacked it to the bottom to support it. I may have to add some structure to the first level, of course I will have to do that from the hole in the hood now.

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whoa!