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Love the look, great job!! How is the FiTech working out for you?
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Those valve covers really tie in the whole engine compartment. Nice job!
I like your battery cables. Did you make those? I still need to do this.
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Looks great, Andy! Once I bring my truck back to Milly, I might have to make a day trip to Savannah!
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Those look AWESOME Andy!!!!!
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Thanks! I do love the engine bay...
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I know you are off on another project but I have a question. We have a very close setup with engine position, etc. If you care to share I would like to know what upper radiator hose you used. It looks like it would fit my setup.
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I will still be adding things/tweaking this one...this is my DD, so I have to keep everything running smooth and in good shape. Just happen to have the hose information in my phone (in case I ever needed one for an emergency) Upper hose is Gates 23464 Lower Hose is Gates 20475 Disclaimer***For anyone else...these hoses work for pdxhall's truck and my truck because we moved the engine to the forward mounting position...so these hoses would not work in the stock OEM position*** Last edited by roll_the_dice; 03-01-2021 at 03:26 PM. |
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That's a great idea on how you ran the Alt cable.
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Thanks....just made sense to me...so the cable wasn't running near any exhaust or heat...and I think it is cleaner....60" cable.
I think I am going to upgrade it to a thicker gauge wire though... 1/0. This one is only 4 gauge. I am not getting the charging I want when my electric fan comes on...coupled with my 170 amp alternator. I never get more than 12.8 volts when the engine is running. |
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Finally decided on a color for my wheels....graphite gray from Duplicolor. I painted my spare tire wheel today...I think my rally wheels will look good with my new beauty rings and I cleaned up my center caps. Will get pictures of those once I paint them.
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Thanks for the info on the hoses. That color on your wheels is nice.
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You are most welcome! I hope to get all 4 wheels painted next week.
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Gave the truck a bath today...first time in a long time! She cleans up pretty good for being 56 years old!
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Started painting my rims...one at a time and rotating them at the same time. First one up...front drivers side now on back drivers side..The spare will rotate as needed also...it is on the front DS now. I think they are going to look so much better. Tried cleaning up the OEM beauty rings, but may opt out to shorter ones from LMC...to show off more wheel. Haven't decided though. They cleaned up nice with an SOS pad and never-dull.
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Of course as soon as I have this wheel on and torqued my new McGard lug nuts arrived in the mail... BIG difference...Love the new look with the new chrome lugs also. Amazing what new clean lugs can do.
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Totally agree that the thin beauty rings would show off the rims better.
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OK I mounted another rim today...do we like it better with no beauty ring or still with a smaller one, probably 2" or less? I definitely think if I use a ring, it should be skinnier than what I have now.
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My Vote...Skinny Ring
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I'd say the thin beauty ring would look good.
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My vote is for the thinner ones as well
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Narrower Van ralley's look best w/the 'skinny' trim rings.
I use the skinny (OE 88-98 trim ring depth) trim rings on all steel wheels regardless of width. This allows showing the depth variance on the 'bigs & littles' w/o hiding the look of the wheel. YOMV....
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