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Re: Minnesota Daily Driver
Helped a fellow car guy get his new project home today.
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Re: Minnesota Daily Driver
Looking tough. How's it tow with the lift and lift springs in the rear?
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Tows pretty good. The trailer is well balanced.
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Just did a 300+ mile trip to pick up an engine for another project. The old rig performed well. Forgot to take pics.
With the last few months of driving in warm and cold I I've found the electric choke to be a good improvement over the divorced. Also noticed once I started using the heater that there was a a lot of air coming from the dash vents with floor selected. Turns out the plastic bracket the connects the vacuum actuator arm to the mode door broke. When the dash vents were selected it would pull the door fine but when floor was selected it wouldn't push the door closed. I was able to find the bracket online. Heater is working good now. The only other update is the what looks to be the original steering box started leaking. So there's now a rebuilt box installed.
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Here's an action pic from last winter plowing one of the few snows we got.
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Here's one of both my squares parked nose to nose this summer.
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Looking good! Did you have to do anything to your plow mount to work with that lift? What's the story on your '87? Looks pretty tall.
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The '87 has 6" of lift and 33x12.5x15 tires. It's a hop to get up in the seat.
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That makes sense. Few rungs down on the chain and the lift cylinder doesn't know.
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Couple of interior updates. I added boat grab handles.
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Also swapped the steering wheel for one out of a late '80s/ early '90s. I think it gives a bit more room.
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Looks good. I like the handles. The wife unit would be very happy with a couple of those.
I think you are right, our plow controls look identical.
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I like the handles because they give you something else to grab on the drivers side. I made a habit of not grabbing the wheel as it's hard on the column so it was kind of a trick to hop in before the handles.
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Back to the build.
After fitting the doors it was time to install the rubber floor liner.
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Then I threw the seat it and started gathering parts to bring it to the body shop.
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Solid work. Does Warn make the front receiver hitch you are using? You are answering all kinds of questions for me.
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Thanks, Happy to help. For the front receiver I bought a generic approximately 6" long 2" receiver tube and welded it to the plow frame. It put it just below the bumper and is plenty out of the way for the plow components.
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Hello from Isanti,
This is great work, I'm waiting for a good snow to get my square out to plow for the first time. It has a 4" lift and I have not modified any of the A frame brackets, I hope it's not tippy.
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Thanks. Yeah not much snow yet. If your plowing fresh snow the blade shouldn't be too tippy. It's worse when there's a layer that's already been driven on. I've only put it one once this year so far. May use it this weekend to clean up some drifting.
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Replaced the t-stat. Noticed the truck wasn't getting up to temp. Not a great thing when it's around 20 below.
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Not much new to report. Just been driving it daily. The good news is that I was able to find some more pictures.
Here's wire wheeling the frame.
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Here's the underside of the box painted.
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These show how much floor was replaced on the passenger side.
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And to continue on with the build, here's some pics from the body shop.
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This is the white on the roof and tailgate.
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