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so ive been looking into build in my extral 12 bolt, i will be converting it to 5 lug with a 3.73 posi and disc brakes. thanks to other board members i have found the disc parts combo that i will use and looked into that at work where i can get the parts at my discount :) also i have found that summit has the axels ans posi. this should start once the tranny is in !!!

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today i got the 4 speed in and im going to try to get the linkage set up tomarow after school and then take it and put it on a lift at work to adjust everything

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If you don't mind me asking, what are you estimating for the rear end rebuild? Posi, 5 lug, disc brakes - all sounds like what I'd like to do.

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i was thinking about $800 for posi, rotors, calipers, hoses, axles and gears.

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$800 is dirt cheap for a new posi unit and gears, nevermind axles and bearings, and all your brake parts, ect.

just an eaton posi carrier goes for about $400- 500 bucks, the another $250 for gears...

thats a great deal if you can do it all for that price!

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yeah i can get all the brake parts from work cheep on my employee discount

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My tranny swap is done!!!!!!!!
i can drive my truck again!!

i had to cut the hole in the floor a littbe biger for the new shifter but i will be welding up the parts of the hole where it is too big.
ill get some pics soon

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here are some pics of how the shifter sits

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so i took the truck out for its first drive with the new tranny.

the tranny shifts great but just needs a few shifter linkage adjustments.

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looking like you are having fun , keep up the work, it's a :metal:

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Lookin good, keep the pics rollin

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i got the truck all taken appart and in the booth for one more coat of primer and then paint. just need to take the bed off and do some masking and the cab will get painted
here is how it sits right now

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i have also decided to keep the truck 6 lug and go with some 20'' weels instead of 18s, but i will still be converting to 4 way power disk brakes

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:fb: today i got the bed off and all the major body work on the cab inside and out is done. im gunna shoot one more coat of primer on it, block it out then paint the cab. then onto the front clip, bed and doors.

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not sure if i missed it but what color are you painting it and what product are you using?

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im painting it soe shade of bright orange, havent picked and exact one yet but i am using ppg

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keep up the progress its looking great

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heres one more pic from the other day

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the cab is painted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry no pics, but i should have some tomarow!

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here are some pics of the fresh paint !

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Man, that looks great!!! I bought the original color to paint my truck because the interior was in good shape and I wasn't going to take it down very far, but at the point I'm at right now I could have changed the color. Something like this is what I would have gone with!

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nice color

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i drove the truck home today. so now its onto the bed and front end. i should have the windshield in soon and the rest of the inside of the cab compleet

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dude this was an awesome built thread to read up on. some nice work in such a short amount of time. talk about making some of us other guys feel lazy.but great work. and lookin good.alot of stuff ive done and seeing done. and want to do. keep up with the pics.

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this is a very nice truck whats the color you used? do u have the paint code?

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its omni 61456 brite orange

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lookin good!

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i got all the door weather striping in and the carpet somewhat in. tomarow im going to spray a last coat of primer on the bed and them spray paint on the bed on wednesday

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got the bed painted today !! but this websight wont lem me upload any pics

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I had the same trouble with pics. If you have HP image zone or some like that change the image size to make it smaller and that will make the file size smaller also. I had to many pixels so that made the file size to big to download.

Nice truck!

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Hey man, here are those pics. We have state testing this week so I forgot about it yesterday, sorry man! Wicked truck, lovethe color, too!!!!
:metal::metal::metal::metal:

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Nice truck looks real good
I just read threw this whole build how long did it take you from start to what u have now?

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bcbasketball11, hey thanks alot.

showss12, i got the truck the summer right after 8th grade, and now im just finishing up my senior year in high school, so about 4 years

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wow! I'm impressed!!! gotta get my sons a couple of trucks to get started on, they are 8 and 12, hope they will be as far along as you are when they reach their senior year! keep up the good work!!

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NO problem man!! that's what this board is all about :metal:

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your build is really inspiring it makes me want to go out and start working on my truck right now

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Hows about installing that latch for your tailgate behind the bedpost(right where you installed it the first time but inside it) then cut a square out in that post so you can push the button, but you wont be able to see the hardware at all.