71 4X4 Frame off Restoration

[Richard]

Originally Posted by DWilbur

Okay I went off the deep end and bought a Magnuson supercharger TVS2300 for my truck. LSX Concepts make kits to fit the supercharger with Vintage Air kit. The other part I had to buy is cylinder head adapter for Cathedral port to square port to make it work on my truck because I put about $1500 worth of work in the cathedral port heads I have. I should have the supercharger and head adapter next week. the pulleys and brackets I will order after I send some pictures of my engine to LSX Concepts to see if I have to change the AC pump brackets or not.

I see you decided to use the LSX Concepts brackets. I got the Gilmer belt drive setup for my LSA. Quality looks good. Will not be installing myself for a few months. Truck paint is delayed due to having the car I am selling going into paint first.

[swamp rat]

Damn!!!

[First c10]

Nice. I can’t wait to see it.

[DWilbur]

I might have problem with the crank pulley fitting the front cross member is real tight.

[DWilbur]

So I had to buy the complete bracket and pulley kit to make it work. The pulleys move all the accessories back about 1.5" and the supercharger pulley end up about where my stock truck pulley is now. witch helps with how tight my crank pulley is to the front cross member. Also I ordered there fuel rails do to conflict with the cooling lines.

[Richard]

I thought that may be the case. Hopefully someone else needs the brackets you already have. You are making me question if I am going to have clearance problems at the front of my motor due to the wide gilmer belt setup I am using. Will know in a couple of months. Cool truck build.

[DWilbur]

Originally Posted by Richard

I thought that may be the case. Hopefully someone else needs the brackets you already have. You are making me question if I am going to have clearance problems at the front of my motor due to the wide gilmer belt setup I am using. Will know in a couple of months. Cool truck build.

If you can modify the passenger side fire wall for clearance for the coil pack then you can slide you engine back some more. This is where I have clearance issues. As my engine sits I can pass my finger in-between the fire wall and the right side coil pack and my crank pulley is about 3/16 clear of the front cross member. My cross member is angled back some older frames are more vertical witch would give more room.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by DWilbur

If you can modify the passenger side fire wall for clearance for the coil pack then you can slide you engine back some more. This is where I have clearance issues. As my engine sits I can pass my finger in-between the fire wall and the right side coil pack and my crank pulley is about 3/16 clear of the front cross member. My cross member is angled back some older frames are more vertical witch would give more room.

Good to know. Have no problem clearancing the fire wall. I have the Pacific Fabrications crossmember. Have yet to even test fit the motor and trans (LSA/6l90) Have to wait until I get truck back now. Looking at the DT mid length tri-y headers. Seen some info that passenger side clearance is an issue with these as well. Want 1 7/8 primary's and full length usually hang to low for me.

[DWilbur]

My supercharger was delivered yesterday and it is heavy I can hardly pick it up. going to take cheery picker to installit. looks real cool. if the weather is good this weekend I will install it. waiting for the rest of the brackets and pulleys to complete the installation.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by DWilbur

My supercharger was delivered yesterday and it is heavy I can hardly pick it up. going to take cheery picker to installit. looks real cool. if the weather is good this weekend I will install it. waiting for the rest of the brackets and pulleys to complete the installation.

Bad A** hope all goes well with install.

[DWilbur]

I received 2 more boxes today from the big brown truck accessories brackets and pulleys. still a couple more boxes coming. I will post pics in the next few days.

[DWilbur]

The big brown truck delivered the fuel rails today. I think that is the last box. if I can find time this week end I will try and install some of the parts.

PS I have a new family member as of last week, 9 week old Black Lab and she has been alot to handle.

[DWilbur]

picture of Maggy 1st day home and passed out after first walk.

[Richard]

She looks like a sweetie.

[rgunlock]

More like a handful Those lab pups have a LOT of energy!

[First c10]

Man... I have been wanting to get another dog but thinking of the first year is painful! my last dog chewed everything. I mean everything!!!
I like the name "Maggie" short for Magnuson???

[DWilbur]

Originally Posted by First c10

Man... I have been wanting to get another dog but thinking of the first year is painful! my last dog chewed everything. I mean everything!!!
I like the name "Maggie" short for Magnuson???

My biggest problem is working graveyard shift and not being home then sleeping half of the day makes potty training difficult. she has be good about not chewing on things other than me so far. she does bring in a lot of stuff from the back yard today its pine cones.

[Getter-Done]

Originally Posted by DWilbur

My biggest problem is working graveyard shift and not being home then sleeping half of the day makes potty training difficult. she has be good about not chewing on things other than me so far. she does bring in a lot of stuff from the back yard today its pine cones.

That is one Cute Puppy!
I used (Puppy pads ) for my retriever
they worked great
it's like she knew what to do.









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[DWilbur]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

That is one Cute Puppy!
I used (Puppy pads ) for my retriever
they worked great
it's like she knew what to do.








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Tried the pads she just chewed them up. used potty turf and that worked okay until she started missing the turf and peed off the side. mostly having issues at night when I'm at work peeing on the floor now and then.

[DWilbur]

I worked on the truck for about 3 hours removing the front accessories and stock fuel injection. only part I did not remove is the main crank pulley I need removal tool to pull it so my nephew will stop by on his way home this week with the tools to pull it and install the new one. Mounted the supercharger and so far it fits no problems. You have to remove the top of the supercharger to bolt it down to the heads then reinstall the top. In the picture you can see the radiators that cool the in coming air before it goes into the cylinder. the adapter for the heads worked good you can see them in-between the heads and supercharger. the heads are cathedral type and the supercharger is square head type.

[DWilbur]

I for got this picture it was so heavy I could not pick it up by my self and used my gantry crane to lift it.

[Richard]

Good to see the supercharger installed. Cannot not wait to see the LSX concepts drive installed. Will be some time before I get to install mine.

[First c10]

I love the look of the SC.....

[DWilbur]

Ran in to minor issue with the crank shaft no key way. So I ordered a crank pin kit should have it Friday or Saturday so I can move forward with installing the pulley kit.

[DWilbur]

With work shutdown I have time to work on my truck the last couple days installing the brackets and pulleys for the supercharger. Another issue I ran into is the throttle body and drive by wire. This supercharger works best with 102mm TB or bigger and finding one that works with 2004 LS computer is not available. I ended up buying an adapter cable to convert my 8 pin to 6 pin throttle body and bought a 6pin 102mm TB. I found some 56lb injectors that save me $300.00 in stead of the one LS Concepts is selling. so far the brackets are fitting real good. 1 set I missed is installing the AC bracket first and had to remove the water pump to install it. to get the belts on I cut off about 1/8" off the front cross member as I only had about 1/8" from the crank pulley to the frame clearance.