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got to make some noise today, Welcome Me To The Neighborhood!!!
the door mat is there to deaden the pinging sound as I hammered away |
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after we had the shape to "Good Enuff" it was time to plug the hole
card stock, scissors, and a sharpie, aka Tools of The Trade, hey that's how they do it on TV I think this was 18 gauge sheet metal so I was a bit too much of a wimp to cut it with snips, so I used the angle grinder |
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don't let that big gap fool ya, the metal was just bent back a little, otherwise it fit like a glove
for some reason I started welding on the front side and then decided to finish it up from the back side |
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for my first sheet metal patch that ain't bad, nothing a grinder can't make look good - but that's it for today, the wife has a headache!
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Super Chevy magazine article: X-pipes and H-pipes Add Easy Horsepower, but Which is Best for Your Ride? X-pipes and H-pipes Add Easy Horsepower, but Which is Best for Your Ride? http://www.superchevy.com/how-to/exh...for-your-ride/
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Greg I had thrushes on my heap and I actually liked them. They were actually mellow sounding to me. I liked them. How's the manual steering? I've wondering about it since you installed it and now that you have been daily it.
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Funny you ask it sucks, big time, the dumbest downgrade I have made to date, LOL. Power steering will be going back on as soon as I Dyno Test this Beast. Found this beauty at my buddy Al's place, I like the front mounting bracket on it, as I don't want to hang the power steering pump off the header again. I am not a fan of chrome but this seems like a quality piece, may be the nicest thing on the truck, when I do put it on hopefully next month. |
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Well, when you put on a muffler called the Rattler...
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First of all awesome build, you give new meaning to the word perserverence.
My wife just asked me what are you reading now on that truck forum. I said same thing I was reading this morning. I told her it's a truck thing, she told me she should have made me choose between the 66 mustang 90% done and the 66 chevy truck in pieces. I told her if she made me choose I was going to miss her, just kidding I didn't say that out loud.....i did tell her I could have worse habits. |
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Thanks for the inspiring thread and job well done.
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there was another 50% off sale at the local Pick n Pulls this weekend
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hello beautiful, all you purists turn your heads
so could this 2002 Dodge Dakota have the perfect sexy black seats for Rusty? had to borrow an 18mm from a wise ol' timmer who bronged metrics with him, where I've been only bringing my standard wrenches for them older GM trucks, thank you kind sir Last edited by Gregski; 04-02-2017 at 11:33 AM. |
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and $30 bucks later they was mine
what I like about these seats
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now my bench seat measures about 59" wide and these are only 49" wide, however these are not all one piece they are three separate pieces that slide/extend out some or can fully separate
I don't like how they squish the center console so much anyways so I was planning on separating them some and if you split the 10" difference 4 ways that's only 2.5" gaps on either side of the console, not bad 2.5" ~ PASSENGER SEAT ~ 2.5" ~ CONSOLE ~ 2.5" ~ DRIVER SEAT ~ 2.5" |
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I parted out a Dakota at work a few months ago, and measured the seat to be a lot narrower than what I wanted.
I ~am~ considering buying three Sunfire/Cavalier buckets, and narrowing the center one (if need be), once the wreckers here have dried out from winter.
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I was riding in my buddy's '12 F150 and I was having bad thoughts about sneaking by his house and liberating his black leather seats for my crew cab. They were mighty comfortable.
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here is my original bench seat compared to the Dakota setup, one thing to keep in mind is that I am not going to have my Dakota seats this wide, they don't need to go all the way to the edge especially if they are going to centered on the steering wheel for example
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