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[canadian 4x4]

looks wicked dude!

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by BRUISER

Looks great!

Originally Posted by canadian trucker

So clean.

Originally Posted by canadian 4x4

looks wicked dude!

Thanks guys!

So after doing some reading on the turbo forums, I think I pretty much figured out what I need for a fuel system. Going to go with a single walbro 255 pump, mallory 4309 regulator, and -8 for the feed and return. Should be enough I think...

Anyways, in the meantime I managed to get the battery mounted:


Put the rear window back in and started to put the dash back together:


Been putting off the swaybar for a while, so I finally got that reattached and took a few dark pictures:





While on my back under the dash, I thought I saw a photo opportunity, maybe not:

[Desperado454]

Picked up my fuel system stuff today. Tried my hand at putting a fitting on the hose and it went smooth. More to come...



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[Desperado454]

I decided to clean up the the tank a little bit before I did the final install, came out decent enough, especially for something that wont be seen. While I was on a roll I put a sending unit in for the fuel gauge. Next up will be mounting the pump and running some lines.

[Desperado454]

Pretty much figured out where the pump and regulator are going to mount, and also got an idea of where I'll run the hose:

Some new hardware under the hood:


Roughed out a piece of aluminum to mount the pump and filter onto which will bolt to the bottom of the frame:

[stepside-mitch]

Man your truck is sweet! What's that steering wheel out of? How did you make it fit?

[canadian trucker]

Drivable yet?

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by pwradder

coming along nicely! looks like it wont be long now

Thanks man, looking forward to driving this thing again

Originally Posted by stepside-mitch

Man your truck is sweet! What's that steering wheel out of? How did you make it fit?

I think it's out of a 66 or 67 chevelle, and it was a bolt on after I clearance the back of the wheel a bit

Originally Posted by canadian trucker

Drivable yet?

Yep!

Walk around:

Twin turbo c10 walk around - YouTube

Revved it up a bit:

C10 rev - YouTube

[6772owner]

Man that truck is awesome, great work!

[KevinD85]

love the truck.

would love to do that one day

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by 6772owner

Man that truck is awesome, great work!

Originally Posted by KevinD85

love the truck.

would love to do that one day

Thanks guys!

Flipped the box on today and as expected I'm going to have to lower the sides down/raise the floor. Have an idea of what to do and will hopefully get started tomorrow

[dustnx]

Amazing work so far man, I've read every post from the beginning, you have awesome fab skills!!! Will be subscribing !! Keep up the awesome work

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by dustnx

Amazing work so far man, I've read every post from the beginning, you have awesome fab skills!!! Will be subscribing !! Keep up the awesome work

Thanks!

One side down

[canadian trucker]

Sick, priceless and speechless. Can't think of any other words.

Oh wait..... Awesome.

[Desperado454]

Originally Posted by canddian trucker

Sick, priceless and speechless. Can't think of any other words.

Oh wait..... Awesome.

Right arm, appreciate it man!

Rounded out the day by dropping the driver side and bulkhead down to match the rest. I thought this was going to be a bit of a job, but turned out to be piss easy! Few pics:

[Hertzdaddy]

Wake up, wave magic wand, presto, bedsides dropped! Or is there more to it than that? Do tell or post pics please.

Originally Posted by Desperado454

Right arm, appreciate it man!

Rounded out the day by dropping the driver side and bulkhead down to match the rest. I thought this was going to be a bit of a job, but turned out to be piss easy! Few pics:

[83swb]

Originally Posted by Hertzdaddy

Wake up, wave magic wand, presto, bedsides dropped! Or is there more to it than that? Do tell or post pics please.

Looks like he just separated the floor and tubs from the bedsides and raised the floor and tubs as one piece.

[96twodoor]

looks great man

[MalibuSSwagon]

Big enough exhaust for ya?!

[bohmankid]

This is the type of thread that gets other guys out to work on their trucks.
Wow, great job. Tons of custom work. I'd like to see a vid of this going down the track!

[Dieselwrencher]

I'm guessing he cut the inner bedsides at the lip where the floor bolts, and removed x amount and welded the lip back on. Then did the same to the front bed panel. That's just my guess though.

[N2TRUX]

Details on the bed floor please.

[Desperado454]

Sorry for the lack of update guys, just hasn't been much progress to share. Anyways, as far as the box raising, I decided to move the floor up 3.5" so it would be even with the body line on the inside of the box. Even though I only had a body channel of 2" to deal with, the extra 1.5" gave me some extra room underneath for exhaust, fuel cell, axle, etc. Also it made it so the wheel tub would land on the upper body line inside the box. Just had to make some 1.5" risers which you can see here:


Back to the box itself, I wanted to avoid welding along the entire length of the box side, so when I just drilled new holes 3.5" up from the old ones. On the uppermost holes, where you can't reach underneath to put a nut on, I just welded nuts where they needed to be:


For the bulkhead i bought some 1/4" x 1" flat bar to make up for the gap that occurs when you lower it down the 3.5'". I drilled and tapped the bar to correspond to the holes in the box floor and drilled bigger holes in between so I could plug weld the bar to the bulk head. Here's a pic of it bolted back in place with the bar in between:


I was going to do the same thing with the gaps in between the tubs, but haven't got around to doing it yet, but here's a pic the shows the bar better:


Last thing I had to do was cut a square section out of the floor at the back so the box sides could slide down. Didn't get a pic of that unfortunately, but maybe you can see it in this pic:


Hope that clears it up!

[Desperado454]

Did a little bit yesterday actually. I painted the bottom of the hood, and in between the bulkhead and cab:

[Desperado454]

Started making a filler door for the fuel cell. Found an old cabinet hinge and decided to use it. Still have to finish the lid part, but here's what I got done: