So this report is a few days overdue...
First off I cut my frame:
Then I kept bondoing till I got P-O'd:
When I was sick of bondoing I decided to chop up the bumper:
I used a cross member from the bumper for a cross member on my frame:
then I decided to chop the bumper in half:
BUT, I hated the way it looked so I scrapped it! Later that day I picked up the hangers my buddy made:
After scrapping the old bumper I just threw on a huge chunk of angle iron:
After welding on a bit of the angle iron I realized my shackle angles were for shit and I needed to deal with it:
SO bust out the torch again and off with more of the frame!
Now my angles are much better:
Now that I was happy how the shackle angles were I could continue with my plan:
While listening to the radio yesterday the DJ asked a question for some prizes. The question was "which bone is the broken the most often" well I knew the answer and called the station and won!... the answer is clavicle aka collar bone, and I won 2 tickets to the mini putt in mall of america and also 2 all day passes to the theme park inside! Seeing as mall of america is only 2 hours away it wont be too hard to use them.
Next was to cut a hole for the receiver hitch:
Done:
There it is with the pintle hitch:
Now I just need to move the truck so I can weld it more securely with the 220 welder.
Now that the bumper was kinda done I was forced to go back to bondoing... bleh... One side done enough for me and a coat of paint on it:
So I wanted to drive the truck around instead of push it so I decided to cut my drive shaft myself.
Now the inner diameter of the drive shaft was 2.5 inches so I drove into town to get some tubing of that diameter and go figure they didnt have it... well I said screw it and welded it up with out a sleeve... I will get a drive shaft from the junk yard and have that professionally done and aligned so dont yell at me yet... The one I welded today I will put a sleeve in or re-tube the thing myself and use it for off roading because the last one I dented.
Next I chopped the exhaust off and I would like to do a side dump.
Well back into town for fuel line line extenders. I put the tank on the frame for today just so I could move the truck and clean:
And then more paint and that was it for the past few days
Heres the issue im running into. I extended the gas lines and now it leaks a bit. The stock lines are plastic tubing with a rubber sheath. I got some brass fittings and ground the ribs down a bit so it would fit properly however it leaks... How do you splice the plastic gas lines? Should I get steel lines and try splicing with those? tomorrow I will have to see how the factory spliced them.