My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

so bad news, good news, sorta bad news

bad news: I recently learned (thanks to this forum: What was this clip on lower control arm for?) that my lower control arms be missin the steering bump stops

good news: the greatest 67-72 truck parts suppliers this side of the Missiissiippiee aka Joe & Marie hooked me up with the driver side lower control arm in good nick

bad news: it is covered in 14 pounds or road grime, so I gots to clean yet another lower control arm, yay me!

on a semi serious note, although I only bought one arm it is enuff for me to use it at a template to perhaps place a make shift bump stop and welder it on (now has anyone seen my 1 1/2" square tubbin' I just tripped over it yesterday!)

[Gregski]

can we get back to the electrification process please

that's an inverter (silver box) and a 30 volt bench power supply (white box)

[Gregski]

we are using a 30 volt 10 amp bench power supply to safely simulate a high voltage (what eventually will be a 360 volt battery pack) for our first test wheel spin (with the vehicle off the ground)

the silver box aka the inverter has two components inside of it, the top half is a DC to DC boost converter in the actual Lexus it was there to take the 280 volts from the battery pack and boost it to 650 volts (I know very impressive)

when you do an EV Conversion using this Lexus transmission/inverter combo you need to bypass this DC to DC boost converter and wire in your 360 volt battery pack right below it directly into the high voltage bus bars like so

[Gregski]

in this video I go over how to wire up the minimal electric components needed to get the rear wheels to spin

GMCe EV Conversion First Wheel Spin Part II of II

[yuccales]

It's alive!

[jimbosprint]

Cool video. Subscribed to your channel.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by jimbosprint

Cool video. Subscribed to your channel.

Hey Chicogonian, thank you so much, how about them winds today?! lemme know if you wanna stop by for some tacos and parts cleaning ha ha I'm just 90 minutes away as the crow flies South on 99 in North Natomas the very tip os Sac Town

[Gregski]

Why should you convert to electric? any questions, ha ha

and that was no where near fill up of the 21 gallon petrol tank of da wife's 2010 Honda Pilot, but the pump quit

Quick Maff, $100 bucks twice a month is $2,500 per year so I can buy two almost three BMW 530e battery packs every year with that money

and since I have two 2018 packs already that tells me they is at least good for three plus years - Good Times!

[Gregski]

there comes a time during a project where you had enuff of doing something [like cleaning gunk off of suspension parts... I'm looking at you lower control arms] and just do something else, so lets weld some sheet

[Gregski]

for this we're gonna need two things, one file folder and one dirty thumb

[Gregski]

I've said this before and I'll say it again DeWalter White is my most utilized horse in the stable

first we deRustarize the rusty piece of scrap sheet metal maybe 16 gauge (I hope)

[Gregski]

then we cut out the proper shapeness roughly (going a bit bigger than need be, we can always trim the excess material off)

Note how the 4 1/2" angle grinder went from a wire wheeler to a cutterizer by simply switching the attachment

[Gregski]

then another costume change from the cut off wheel to the smootherizer

[Gregski]

and after 47 nips n tucks, she almost fits perfectly, ah good enuff for the girls we date

[Gregski]

second verse, same as the first
but a whole lot larger and a whole lot worse

[Gregski]

oh yeah, since no one asked, lemme tell you about my spark machine setup

runnin typical 3 parts Argon to 1 part Carbon Dioxide commonly known as 75/25% blend

for sheet metal (which is way harder to weld then them 1/8th inch brackets) I like to use .025" wire

for that I try to remember to swap to the .025" roller as well as the .025" tip

hope that helps some of you Young Padawans out

don't mind the settings ie the knob position in this pic they got twisted by accident to the max

[Gregski]

also I don't read sheet music, I go by clock position, so for this type of thickness or I should say thinness, the wire speed is at 9 o'clock and the poweridge at noon

Top Tip: if the wire coming out of your gun is bouncing off or tapping the piece you is trying to weld, the wire speed is too fast, turn it down

[Gregski]

I just happen to find some scrap circular plugs that almost fit in them larger holes so I run what you brung

I think I had three of them so that took care of the three bigger round holes

[Gregski]

for them medium holes I use this Clint Eastwood backing plate thingie jobbie

[Gregski]

counting them extra 17 holes in the floor boards I think 206 holes done and 180 to go, it aint perfect by any no means but maybe two gallons of bondo and some distance will make the firewall look real good

oh dingle dangle, I still gots to do that BIG circle, darn it!

[Gregski]

this morning I was greeted by this dreaded hard drive failure on my primary home computer where I keep all my EV Conversion pics and documentation

the Intel SSD 535 Series hard drive just failed

480 GB Solid State Drive

I'm an IT guy but this sucks ballz! I tried to tether it to a working laptop as an external drive but it won't even power up

[8man]

I'd just quit! Man that really does suck. Good luck on any type of recovery.

[tutone]

Let me be the tin hat in the room. Somebody doesnt want you building an electrified truck and them not share in the profits? Just a theory.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by tutone

Let me be the tin hat in the room. Somebody doesnt want you building an electrified truck and them not share in the profits? Just a theory.

that is on point, and you think Tesla's lab caught on fire by accident, hmmmm

[DoubleDubya]

Originally Posted by tutone

Let me be the tin hat in the room. Somebody doesnt want you building an electrified truck and them not share in the profits? Just a theory.

I agree with tutone. The same thing is happening to you that happened to that guy in the 60's that invented the 100mpg carburetor. Keep your doors locked and the blinds pulled. Good luck.