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Posting these for Tommy, he sent me them after a friend spotted him on the way home from his maiden voyage and sent me a pic. He’s wheeling her so I’m happy! We all have to get out there and have as much fun as him!
Dude good for you for getting all that research done that’s half the battle. It is true though if you already have the oil pressure gauge from the factory cluster, it’s nice to have a backup but not totally necessary to have it take up space in the cab. Have you googled other locations? I know you gave me some advice when I had my water temp hacked in there.
Yeah good call Tom. We’d really like to have a good plan when we go, this was sort of a last minute, if-it-all-worked-out sort of trip, and too much was culminating at once. On the positive side I really pushed to get some work done on the truck and accomplished a lot in a short time. So it’s totally ready to wheel as it is. The front birfs leak a lot though so I’ll do the front axle and wheel bearings over the winter.
Thanks guys! Yeah I need to move the license plate I might make a mount that goes up on the tire carrier. It turned out it pretty well I’m happy Overall, the one swing out moves a little more than I’d like so I have to address that, the more I look at pics too I want bigger tires haha
Sad news but we decided to postpone our trip to Moab, it was too much with work and life going on. I have to rebuild he front axle before we go and I won’t have time before Sunday when we were supposed to leave.
Painted, installed and ready to go, the latch for the tire and high lift side of the swing out does move and rattle a little. I put some rubber on there to stop the rattle but the whole thing moves around a little more than I’d like so I’ll have to figure that out.
Thoughts, comments, concerns?
It’s not a build until you spend hours doing something and then realize later it was a waste of time. LOL
Don’t be fooled this is the culmination of about 20 hours of labor! But have been busting my ass in the garage this last week.
Got the metal prep from POR15, lathered that on and rinsed it off, my wife helped me paint it with POR this aft, then I primed and painted it in the garage with a propane heater going, and I just put a final coat on at 9 tonight and stuck them beside my wood stove for the night in our apartment. Haha, so I’ll have it all mounted up tomorrow and ready to go, just have to weld on one more support after I get it assembled, it’s just an added support that goes over the hinge to stiffen it up and makes that swing out unremovable, unless you cut the support. That way no one can walk off with my jack or anything. Also I welded my CB antenna mount to it
Took it all apart and removed it for paint. I got some Por15 again so when that gets here I’ll get it all painted. After that I have to get the front end resealed, alignment, and a 255 spare. Then we leave for Moab!
Always my favourite part of the build, took a rain day today and made some serious progress. Very excited overall.
