Project Little Green Turd

[1badexplorer]

Its for my dually. No matter what I do to that F250 it will always be terrible on gas. Thats great congrads. Time to haul the Ranger up there and break in the garage right by finishing a project.

 

[wizkid00104]

Its for my dually. No matter what I do to that F250 it will always be terrible on gas. Thats great congrads. Time to haul the Ranger up there and break in the garage right by finishing a project.

Thanks. It may, we are scheduled to close on the house April 19th if there aren't any problems.

That gear vendors unit is pretty neat. Damn are they expensive though! I have no doubt in my mind that you paid less than retail

 

[wizkid00104]

The motor is for my 79. Its a 501. the second pic is a gearvendors unit. Check my build thread.

Where is your build thread?

 

[1badexplorer]

I don't have one for the 501 yet. I will when I get closer to install. I have a build on my dually in the "other" section.

 

[1badexplorer]

That gear vendors unit is pretty neat. Damn are they expensive though! I have no doubt in my mind that you paid less than retail

Less than retail. You know me well. How about 1/3 of retail.

 

[wizkid00104]

I was going to guess 1/4 of retail...

Nick's Dually thread: http://therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137871

 

[94DangerRanger]

Subscribed. Great work!

 

[wizkid00104]

Thanks! Excited to do some more tomorrow


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[wizkid00104]

A little more got done this weekend.

A big thanks to Nick (1badexplorer) for helping me hoist the transmission into place.

Transmission is bolted in but I haven't installed the cross member yet. I need to fill the transmission with fluid to

I replaced the bad rear wheel cylinder, the broke the bleeder off of the other. So I need to get another one of those now (or try to easy out the old one)

I cleaned up and painted the front drive shaft and the fuel tank skid plate. The skid plate needs the bottom painted and a one more coat applied. The drive shaft also need one more coat.

It was a slow but productive Saturday. Still don't have my frame cross member yet.

I think what really makes mad though is that thanks to daylight savings time, I lost an hour of my valuable weekend. Screw the hour of sleep, I don't want to be 1 hour closer to going back to work

Lets go Pens! Currently 6-1 over the Islanders

Nick, I never went to the bank last night. Got tied up helping my Grandparents. I'll tack some more interest on the $20
And the bolt website I told you about was [U]www.AllensFasteners.com[/U].

 

[wizkid00104]

I didn't get a whole lot done this weekend. Spent a good bit of time helping my grand parents instead. I did get the other rear wheel cylinder fixed, the correct bleeders in the front calipers, and a second coat of paint on the skid plate. Not much, but its something!

Happy St. Pattys Day! :icon_cheers


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[wizkid00104]

I didn't have a whole lot of time yesterday, but I did get the transmission crossmember in with the help of my buddy Joey. Along with this, I put the transfercase back in and installed the magnaflow cat. The radius arm bolts still need tightened and so does the cat/header bolts. Since the cat assembly is all T304 stainless, it seemed fitting to use stainless harware for it. I believe the replacemebt bolts were 3/8" x 2.5" 18-8 stainless. For the Magnaflow cat, larger washers are needed for the flange so the nut and lock washers can seat properly. The "larger" washers I am using are for are some 7/16" grade 8 washers I had left over.

No work on the truck next weekend, we are going up to Guys Mills PA to celebrate Easter with my gf's family. Also going to do a little quad riding!

Cheers

 

[1badexplorer]

Looks good. Next time you come down we will check out those fenders better. Get this thing finished for the TRS ride on June 1st! I'm planning to haul out.

 

[wizkid00104]

Thanks. Where is the ride at? I'd love to have it done by then! I wouldn't count on it though lol


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[1badexplorer]

Southington offroad park. Its in NE Ohio. Just run PA 76 straight to it. Its just less than 2hrs for me.

 

[wizkid00104]

That's not too bad. I drive past that every time I go to Detroit. I'll do my best. I have this Friday off, so I may come back Thursday night to get some more work done.