My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

I can't believe the short sightedness of the Chevy engineers, that merely 50 years ago they could not foresee that we would some day be bolting up electronic components to these rigs, was all that pretend metric compliance for nothing? needless to say I must drill four new holes, oh the calamity

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

My combustion is showing, is there an electric power steering unit as well?

indeed there is, 2004-09 second gen Toyota Prius Electronic Power Steering aka EPS

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Mike Bradbury

I am not sure if this is in the works or not, but the two vertical square tubes for your trans crossmember should have caps welded on them so water does not get in the tubes and rust out. Just flat squares welded below the mounting bolts should do it.

thanks Mike, good idea, I am also thinking maybe weep holes?!

[Gregski]

How to tell if it's NOT Media Blasting Weather ~ aka MBW

seems like we get rain on only two days a year here in Sacramento, and this year both days seem to fall in the same week, aka my Media Blasting Week (wait that's also MBW ?)

[Gregski]

time to adapt and overcome

[Gregski]

and I like to clean my old parts after I work with them, to maximize my chances of tetanus

[Mike Bradbury]

Originally Posted by Gregski

thanks Mike, good idea, I am also thinking maybe weep holes?!

Remember weep holes work both ways. If you are good at welding, then weep holes are not necessary, If your welding is questionable, then weep holes are necessary. But powder coating and spray paint have trouble fully coating the weep hole itself and rust can start forming around the orifice.

[Gregski]

after little thought I just nibbed off this eyelet off of the old booster and stuckatized it on to the new one

[Gregski]

Fun Fact: Trusting that your 70s vehicle was built with the highest of precision fitment standards in mind and perfect symmetry is a sure way to make you drill and weld up your new holes two or three times to fianlly meet their polywhompuses

this is how off the factory brackets come off the firewall towards the new booster, they are NOT even (like I originally assumed)

[Gregski]

I hope I didn't mounted it sideways or upside down ?


2018 Honda CRV iBooster same crap as in the Tesla but for a 1/3rd of the cost

[biketopia]

Great work so far, but question!? That master looks awfully small, does is have enough bore and stroke to to move fluid correctly to actuate large front disc's and the rear drum set up on these trucks?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by biketopia

Great work so far, but question!? That master looks awfully small, does is have enough bore and stroke to to move fluid correctly to actuate large front disc's and the rear drum set up on these trucks?

I don't know, we shall see, however, The iBooster made by Bosch is used in many modern cars. Most well known example probably is the Tesla Model S for the GEN1

iBooster GEN1 cars list
Audi A3 e-Tron
Chevrolet Bolt
Chevrolet Malibu
Honda CR-V (MY 2018, 2019)
Jaguar i-Pace (MY 2019, 2020)
Porsche Panamera (MY 2017+)
Tesla Model S (MY 2015+ (with autopilot))
Tesla Model X (MY 2015+)
Volkswagen Passat hybrid
Volkswagen e-Golf
Volkswagen e-UP

[Gregski]

I think I put off tackling the battery tray long enuff, so first it was time to make the uneven, even!

using only the finest metals from my scrap pile of finest metals

[Gregski]

this is approximately 3,612 back and forths with the angle grinder

[Gregski]

at first this level of inaccuracy made my heart skip a beat...

but then later I realized the whole front end is up in the air a bit more than the rear and not on the level


so Top Tip, when twerking on old cars or trucks, measure and go off of their parts and not off of the circumference of the earth and shiet, (I once built a perfectly symmetrical split bumper for my '54 ... spent hours and hours on getting both sides identical, and then I mounted them and they looked jacked, I could not figure out what was wrong, so I cut the uneven side all up and welded it up so it looked like HELL on the garage floor, then I mounted it up, and my wife goes HMMM THAT LOOKS PERECT !!!

[Gregski]

and here's how them horns look naked, perfectly level from 50 feet...

[Gregski]

that's more like it, I like it! do you?

[Gregski]

then it was off to Ace Hardware (where they treat me like Norm on Cheers since I'm there every day) for some [ahem] hardware

[Gregski]

not purdy but strong

[Gregski]

I love these ALMOST on center every time punches

[Dieselwrencher]

Nice work! Are those hazard fraud transfer punches?

[8man]

It's not the punch, it's the hammer!

You'll be rolling down the road in Dusty soon.

[Gregski]

drill sergeant

[Gregski]

Fun Level = 0

[Gregski]

so this is what we are going for