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Got a snow day today (teacher perks) so I headed out to the garage. Started working on mounting the body. Made an outboard mount

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Got it mounted up

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Then I started working on mounting a tank. Picture looks off, but everything is straight and level. Lol

[Mjminino]

How come my teachers couldn't have been this cool?! What grade do you teach? Thermal Dynamics plasma cutter ain't no chump change. Maybe I need to do a career change!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Mjminino

How come my teachers couldn't have been this cool?! What grade do you teach? Thermal Dynamics plasma cutter ain't no chump change. Maybe I need to do a career change!!!!!

Haha. I teach high school health and phys Ed. This is my 5th year teaching. I actually got the plasma cutter really cheap. Like $200ish chea (I got it in a package deal with the welder I got off craigslist). Problem is the guy didn't have 220 at his place so I couldn't test either one. Took my chances. Welder works great. Plasma won't stay lit/cut. It just sparks the whole time. I changed the consumables but it didn't make a bit of difference. I took it to a buddy's house thinking maybe it was a power/air pressure/moisture in the line but it did the exact same thing at his place. A buddy took it to his work hoping to fix it.

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Got another snow/too cold day. Got the tank mount finished. Also got the other side outboard mount started before I ran out of mig wire. Cleaned up the garage.

[65sub]

Cool build so far. I am curious about your gas tank. On a SWB suburban the filler is behind the rear wheel. Is your tank between the frame rails or outside? Do you have pictures?

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Originally Posted by 65sub

Cool build so far. I am curious about your gas tank. On a SWB suburban the filler is behind the rear wheel. Is your tank between the frame rails or outside? Do you have pictures?

On this one (c20 or 30) the gas tank was mounted right behind the drivers seat outside the rail. I decided to leave it in the same spot but made/making a custom stainless tank.

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Originally Posted by 65sub

Cool build so far. I am curious about your gas tank. On a SWB suburban the filler is behind the rear wheel. Is your tank between the frame rails or outside? Do you have pictures?

Here's a pic of the custom tank that's going in it. The fatter end goes toward the drivers seat. The skinnier end is notched to go around my 4 link. Figure it's going to be roughly 15gallons.

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Here's another pic. Baffles will be inside. I still need to figure out how I'm going to mount it, filler neck and securing the pump. I bought a piece of stainless at my local scrap yard for $40. Made a template and then went to a local shop that sheared it and bent it up for me for $40. Custom stainless tank for $80 thus far.

[Mjminino]

I pmed you

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I just set the bottom and side piece of the gas tank in the truck so you can see how I made it to go around the 4 link set up. Not sure if this helps you any.

[65sub]

Nice work on the new tank. Thanks for the pics. For the fuel pump have you looked at the Aeromotive Phantom in tank pump. Installation looks relatively easy.

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Originally Posted by 65sub

Nice work on the new tank. Thanks for the pics. For the fuel pump have you looked at the Aeromotive Phantom in tank pump. Installation looks relatively easy.

I haven't, but I will now!

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Got another snow day today lol. Got out to the garage and got my transmission crossmember done. I had one in previously but the angle was off and I had no way of running exhaust.

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Because I wanted it as low as possible I decied to use a couple 1/2 inch thick energy suspension body bushings to dampen it to the mount. Here's it installed.

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And it looks like I will now have plenty of room for exhaust now. I used some 2" pvc to mock that up. Lol

[Modges'66]

Looks like that will work!
Nice!

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When grinders attach! Was prepping some metal I couldn't clamp and it bit me. Looks worse than it is. Rinsed it off, a few bandaids and back to work. And yes, I had gloves on when this happened

[Palf70Step]

Ouch. Been there, done that..more than once too. Glad it wasn't too bad.

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Now that got my attention

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Originally Posted by uber cool

Now that got my attention

Man look at that thing.. Its practically in a 4x4 stance. See how far my front bumper was to the ground? Glad I got it sorted out! lol

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Today I bought a bunch of wire, some relays, and some odds and ends to try to get the air ride done. I messed around too much and only got the valves installed and the tank set in place. Hopefully tomorrow Ill get the compressors mounted up and do a little wiring. Going to be a simple set up. Accuair is cool and all but to me that's just way too much stuff to go wrong. Even if I was rich I'd still do a simple set up with just an few switches.

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Tonight's progress: made some compressor mounts

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And heres it together