My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

What time is it? [wrong answers only]

[fatbass]

What time is it? [wrong answers only]

Time to detonate all 4 explosive pads, blowingup your overpriced home and collect the insurance to finance your next C10 project?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by fatbass

Time to detonate all 4 explosive pads, blowingup your overpriced home and collect the insurance to finance your next C10 project?

that is correct

[Gregski]

nothin' to it, but to do it ...

[Gregski]

please check out the video where I weigh this rig GMCe DIY EV Electruck Weight

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[Gregski]

and here's my buddies C10 Patrick's dinosaur juice powered truck as a reference weighing in at 3,739 pounds


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[72 tigger]

You’re a lightweight!

[CG]

Its so neat what you've done to your truck, I feel like when you finally get it dialed in to where you are going to stand pat it really deserves a bit of an overall facelift, make it prettier-ish.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by CG

Its so neat what you've done to your truck, I feel like when you finally get it dialed in to where you are going to stand pat it really deserves a bit of an overall facelift, make it prettier-ish.

100% agree, I aint planning on beating on her with the ugly stick for too much longer, a trip to Summit Racing in Sparks Nevada is most definitely on the horizon, in Phase III of the project, she will be getting brand new aftermarket bed sides, that's fer sure, and I already have to Herculiner to shmeer all over the inside of the bed that I've been tripping over for the last 18 months on the garage floor

yes it's over a 100 miles away not currently the truck won't make it that far, but maybe its a foreshadowing of yet another more bigger battery pack upgrade, who knows ?!

[Gregski]

well boyz, she's been running and driving great, so I decided to rip her apart, that's right it's time to replace the world's most obnoxious aftermarket shifter

so first the center console had to come out

[Gregski]

and then I decided that it was easier to just yank the turtle shell transmission cover than fandangle with just removing the B&M shifter off of it

[Gregski]

nice thing about working on a truck, is that you can use the bed as a work bench

you all agree or disagree ?

[Gregski]

pretty sure volumes have been written on the low hump (automagical transmission covers) vs the high hump manual gear box ones, so I just want to share a mandatory side by side stare and comparison I stole off the InterWebs somewhere

[Gregski]

Nobody: but is there a crappy video of you actually removing this noisy B&M shifter out of your rig ?

Me:


GMCe DIY EV Shifter Swap Part I


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[Gregski]

so made this jig last night when I was still considering using the stock 2007 OEM Lexus GS450h automatic floor shifter

it's a crude setup but it demonstrates how far back the actual floor shifter sits behind the transmission, fine in a car, not so fine in a truck, or is it?

[Gregski]

I was hoping to have it sit right about here, in order to retain the center console, hence the jig to test shortening that shifting rod, and not having to do it whilst laying on my back under the rig

[yuccales]

Using your magic, could you remove the forward cup holder assembly from the console and slip it over the shifter, keeping the console?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by yuccales

Using your magic, could you remove the forward cup holder assembly from the console and slip it over the shifter, keeping the console?

Hmmmm! very interesting idea, dare I show off my hoard of center consoles?

[Gregski]

Absolutely Nobody: Hey Greg tell us you're a bachelor without telling us you're a bachelor.

Me:

[Gregski]

sure, but is there a funny yet insightful video ?


GMCe DIY EV Shifter Swap Part II - Lexus GS450h Automatic Transmission Floor Shifter

[Custom 68]

What a project Greg, I certainly admire your thought process and determination. You are doing an amazing job. It has certainly been a journey.
I am looking to do something similar on my brake system as you did. What I have read it is a great swap and not too hard to accomplish. I wanted your take on how they work? I understand based on all the other work you have done this was probably a drop in the bucket but nonetheless a cool option.
Thanks!
Dave

[Custom 68]

Oh and your videos are stellar...
Dave

[Custom 68]

duplicate...

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Custom 68

What a project Greg, I certainly admire your thought process and determination. You are doing an amazing job. It has certainly been a journey.
I am looking to do something similar on my brake system as you did. What I have read it is a great swap and not too hard to accomplish. I wanted your take on how they work? I understand based on all the other work you have done this was probably a drop in the bucket but nonetheless a cool option.
Thanks!
Dave

thank you for the kind words Super Dave, I really appreciate it, sometimes hearing the "You Ruined Another One" comments just gets to me through my thin skin, little people know how I find these trucks, I wish I had my original pics of this carcass just sitting there doing nothing, to show them what I started with

anywho, are you talking about just a drum to disc conversion or are you considering an iBooster for electronic brakes?

if just a disc conversion, then what I learned is that if I was to do it again, I would remove the complete 1967-70 K member or crossmember whatever the cool kids call it, and bolt up a completely assembled (though freshened up) 1971-72 crossmember. and the reason for that is that GM in their infinite wisdom flipped the brake lines around and (and I hope I don't get this backwards) on our 67-70 drum brake trucks the brake lines run behind the crossmember ie closer to the cab, and on the 71-72 disc brake trucks they run in front of the crossmember closer to the radiator, so if you use the 71-72 K member you can go buy stock OEM hard brake lines and rubber lines and they will all reach and just bolt up if you don't want to make your own, but if you do what I did then sure you can make your own hard lines, (and oh buy aint that fun and exciting, ha ha) but the calipers want the rubber lines to run on the opposite side than the drum cylinders ran, again from what I recall

best of luck and feel free to drop me a private message any time you like

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Custom 68

duplicate...

ha ha, yeah I saw that, and I was about to type: You Can Say That Again !