I'm not calling this a build thread, to me this is progress leading to buying more and more parts that will end up a build soon enough... For now I have to drive my truck daily and can only have her torn apart for small amounts of time.

Ill start with pics of when I first got her, and go from there...





Clear corners




Took off the hub caps and painted the steelies



Now road trip time, moving across the country. Drove her all the way.



Did put on some beauty rings on before the trip

Stock height:





Wife got these for me for christmas.



Layed out on 3 inch blocks and ball joint flip.. Front needs to come down more but I have to buy wrenches this weekend



24 1/4 at the top of the rear wheel well



After about a day my back couldn't stand riding on the bump stops any longer



Made my own temperary bumps, just needed to keep from hitting metal to metal





Finished the BJ Flip and decided I wanted to take the bug reflector off.





Because it had been on there for years before I got it it messed the paint up on the good but it's going to be painted one day so no big deal.





So far that's it. It isn't much but there is a long way to go... Going to space the BJ Flif a quarter inch more then crank torsions this weekend after I get tools. After that I'm going to start looking for wheels to base the whole truck on and find a reputable frame welder out here to do a step notch. Might a well go big while I'm under there... 4link and bags are later down the road...

 

Welcome to the site and the west coast!!!!

 

Been on the site for some time now, and I moved to the east coast. miss living in Cali..

 

Hopefully Picking this up in the next few weeks...

 

Nice write up

btw, you were riding bump stops with 3" blocks? Were you hitting bumps at 80 mph?

 

Lol no what's funny is I think maybe the kid that owned the truck before my uncle had it lowered and didn't put it back all the way. I have pictures and posts about riding on the front bump stops before touching anything. Most people get to about 26-27 inches after 3" blocks I'm at 24 inches already.. I have no bumps up front and home made ones in the back with about 2 1/2" of travel left. I've replaced shocks, before moving from Cali, and the height never changed... Still have 3 leafs in the back too, arch looks good but I could wrong.

 

Picked these up today from Xs5875, great price and a great guy!!

 

Nice meeting you. Look fwd to seeing both urs and my trucks done lol

 

Little stuff again. Weather has been rainy snowy and frozen for a few weeks.



Old on the left and the new one on the right.

 

Much mo betta!!

 

looking good

 

Whats next on the agenda? Keeping the rear sliding window?

 

Yah I think I want to keep it. Don't have the whole truck planned out in my head yet, I see things that I like and I have to figure out how to blend them together. Saving up some cash, hoping next will be a step notch big enough to house a 4libk and bag setup. Going to keep it static for a bit until I can get with some contacts and try to make some deals.
Other than that just stock up on little things. And probably start body work.. She needs a lot. :0

 

nice and clean..what you planning on doing with the back bumper?

 

My wife wants to make a shelf out of it for my work shop. Going to drill some holes in the top and use it to hold screw drivers and small hand tools.

 

Been a while since I've done anything other than general maintenance. Started back one her this past holiday. Got a new welder for Christmas, so notch and 4link are soon to come. What I've started with recently:

Before:


Removed washer fluid reservoir:


Removed evap system:



Removed egr and pair valve:


All done:


Now time for power steering leak to be fixed tomorrow and start cleaning the engine bay of oil and dirt.

 

So lets see that rear bumper!!!

 

That 3.0 can be cleaned up nicely Ill dig up a pic of the one I had in a 91 4wd and show ya...

 

Never finished it it's sitting in the shop on the work bench

Yah let me see, I have a pic of a mini that was at layd out last year but I can't find it. I was all tucked. Had purposely taken photos of it to use for reference.

 

Why have I never been graced with this picture? LoL, not cool enough I guess. Id like to see it since I am trying to clean mine up as well.