Cutting trucks apart is pretty easy, putting them back together is harder lol.

It typically takes me about 18 months to go from purchase to driving in some kind of way.

Except my D100, which I purchased and then just haven't done anything with lol.

 

Cutting trucks apart is pretty easy, putting them back together is harder lol.

It typically takes me about 18 months to go from purchase to driving in some kind of way.

Except my D100, which I purchased and then just haven't done anything with lol.

Pics of D100?

 

I thought I would like it more, but it's just another version of my C10 in a different wrapper. It's like owning a Mustang and a Camaro and trying to build both.

 

It's all personal preference, but given the choice, I'd take the C10 over the Dodge.

 

C10 is definitely more stylish,

 

Yesterday I spent a few hours turning my cherry picker into a little tow behind crane for my Wheelhorse tractor, moved the trans and case around the back of the shop.

Still need to get this rear area graded and graveled so I can build my lean to this summer. Which means a lot of these trucks are taking a budgetary backseat this summer.

 

Was going to powerwash the grease and grime last weekend, but came home Friday to find out the tenant next door had a camper pulled up right on top of the frame where they were cooking Ramen and enjoying the summer... Which I wouldnt have even minded, but they told literally no one, me, my wife, my father in law who is still their landlord... So I spent the weekend wiring my Toyota instead.

I would have liked to fire up the powerwasher anyway out of spite... But since it was for a 16 year old girls birthday party, I'm not willing to punish a child for the stupid decisions her parents make.

This coming weekend I have a friend coming over to grade the area behind the shop for a lean to, then I can gather my trash (treasures) behind the shop and go back to work on the truck.

 

First layer of grease and BS powerwashed off last night, will give it another go round tonight, then blast and paint I hope Friday.

I have some equipment coming in Friday and Saturday to grade and level the area behind it, so I'm hoping, but unlikely, to get the cab at least placed onto the frame while it's here. Not in the final spot, but to where I can lift it with my gantry and move it around if need be.

 

Got the trans and transfer case up onto the back of the truck where I'm going to rebuild it, degreased and washed the frame for a second time, took inner fenders out.

I'll paint the under cab area of the frame tonight, and we might actually see the cab set on the frame, back a bit so I can still work on the engine this weekend if this grader dude comes through.

 

 

Ok ya, It's getting there

 

looking good. been watching the YT vids too. Make them longer!

 

Well thank you! Hard to stay motivated to film while I'm doing the projects lol. I actually have some vids to put together over the holiday, my views go way down in the summer because most of my subscribers are outside like me lol.

I'll be spraying the color on it tonight, stupid shortages, they only have flat black, but whatever, never see it again once I drop the cab on and coat it all in oil and wax anyway lol.

 

Happy 7.3 day!

Frame is painted for under the cab, and transfer case is removed from transmission.

I'll either find hard parts laying in the pan, or loose center support bolts here.

 

is that rustoleum rusty metal primer and flat black? did you shoot it out of a gun, spray bomb or brush/roller?

 

Yes, I spray it with HLVP, but only for speed, goes on thicker if you brush it.

Had to do brakes on the Jeep today and figure out why the Toyota went DOA at the gas station yesterday, once that was all squared away I went back to this project and tore into the trans to find out I was totally wrong, and theres nothing obviously wrong or failed in it, but it definitely only had reverse lol.

It's been rebuilt before, a ton of signs exist, like one pump bolt being weird and wrong, has an earlier piston and drum rather than the molded setup it should have. It's likely a Jasper/Oreily's/Bulk BS unit.

So I guess I'll just count on me reassembling it to unscrew whatever was screwed up. I already have new clutches, steels, etc in a kit, I'll get the hard parts back up to what they should be and put it back together with a few simple extras and send it.

I also got the lean to area graded.

 

Looking good!!

 

You definitely keep busy! My old 97 f350 7.3 is outback just rotting away. Kind of wish I had the room to cab swap it and make it drivable again.

 

I never really drove this one lol, only backwards

Hopefully when I put it back together it goes forwards too!

 

Scored a dually axle today in the Upull, only 115 bucks!

Guess it's gonna be a dually after all.

 

Excellent!!

 

I'm unreasonably excited.

 

I see that as a good thing!

 

Did you grab the timbren bump stops?

 

No, the only tool I brought was my sawzall lol.

 

Spent some time monkeying about with a DIY Lizzardskin sound and heat spray on insulation. This is just latex paint and 3m Microballoons, which according to the internet, and LIzzardskin MSDS, Lizzardskin is also.

Sprayed it on this scrap panel, and it's definitely effective at deadening sound, I'll test it out on heat blocking shortly, I can make a gallon of this stuff for about 1/4 the cost of a gallon of LIzzardskin.

My up pipes leaked like a sieve from the day I bought it, diesel guys love spending money, Full Force diesel sells stianless up pipes for 400 bucks without a collector, Ebay sells up pipes for 97 dollars with a collector.

These are nice looking pipes, thick tubing, should be great. I also ordered a exhaust backpressure valve delete pedestal to deal with the rest of the leaks there, I might mess with the turbo a bit, maybe not, I haven't decided yet. I always try to resist the urge to drag projects out "while I'm at it"

 

Spent some time monkeying about with a DIY Lizzardskin sound and heat spray on insulation. This is just latex paint and 3m Microballoons, which according to the internet, and LIzzardskin MSDS, Lizzardskin is also.

Sprayed it on this scrap panel, and it's definitely effective at deadening sound, I'll test it out on heat blocking shortly, I can make a gallon of this stuff for about 1/4 the cost of a gallon of LIzzardskin.

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My up pipes leaked like a sieve from the day I bought it, diesel guys love spending money, Full Force diesel sells stianless up pipes for 400 bucks without a collector, Ebay sells up pipes for 97 dollars with a collector.

These are nice looking pipes, thick tubing, should be great. I also ordered a exhaust backpressure valve delete pedestal to deal with the rest of the leaks there, I might mess with the turbo a bit, maybe not, I haven't decided yet. I always try to resist the urge to drag projects out "while I'm at it"

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How thick does the coating go on? Looks like it should work.

 

You paint, then put the oil/wax on lol. Not the other way around.

 

oh ok. Makes sense.

 

Curious what your oil/wax combo is. I have been using fluidfilm and woolwax for a while now with pretty good results.

 

For this, and my 4runner, it's engine drain oil, whatever grease I have laying around, and toilet wax rings lol. I just heat it up in a pot and spray it on with an undercoating gun.

For my wife's Jeep, I use Woolwax, smells nicer, same result. I think Woolwax is lanolin and paraffin wax.

 

Latex paint? Interesting. I wonder if you could add the 3m stuff to good old rust oleum.

 

I don't see why not, that's what I was planning to do if it does anything at all for heat shielding for me.

Lizardskin is latex and sticks though, so idk, I'm not a paint scientist lol. The expensive part is the microballoons though, they're about 50 bucks a gallon, would yield you about 3 gallons of sprayable based on my little test. Going 1:1 like the internet says, was too thick for my Schutz gun to spray.

 

Scrubbed the firewall and floorboards today, then powerwashed it all, hopefully I can paint tomorrow, replace the up pipes, and get the cab set onto the frame this weekend.

 

I'll probably never know... But I would like to know why my firewall and floor are this gray color lol, like all the paint just washed right off.