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Originally Posted by BlueBullet
Thank you for the links. I must be blind looking and reading through your thread. I see now how you plumbed your hydro boost and we're able to use the stock brackets and pump. Cool because that's what I want to do keep stock appearance under the hood and I am going to use stock TC shifter. For hole drilling and cutting. Once you got location figured out how did you go about drilling holes for engine cross member since it is in between the frame rails. Please excuse me if I am missing it in your thread. Also how did you go about determining hole location in high hump. I see you started out with a auto high hump. Thanks again for your help.
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Lots of pics of what went on in page 14 post 326, 336, 340 & finally 343 is where we set the 4x k-member but don’t think I mentioned how, so if I remember correctly one upper hole (furthest forward) lined up on each rail. Set everything from there using the actual bracket or crossmember as a guide, marked it removed the bracket then drilled (sometimes utilizing a smaller pilot at first to allow for minor adjustment and chase it from the top or bottom outside). The tool we used was a small 3/8” pneumatic right-angle drill with short bits that made drilling those k-member holes easier. I’d fire that baby up and pry against it and the opposite flange to drive it through, good times, glad there’s just a few…
If you use the T400/205 and engine placement mentioned above the factory 4x opening is really very close (we set the cab back on the frame for this step, as part of a sheet metal, drive train clearance, trans linkage & steering mock up). Our cab was an original automatic high hump cab with no opening and had dimples in the cover I’d assumed as a guide for the boot ring screws. With the correct ring I traced the opening and cut it out bingo thought we’d nailed the factory location. But as I mentioned earlier had to move it all forward about an inch, don’t know if my linkage arm had been bent or was the original shape (nothing to compare it to and maybe the other arm we had for mockup was bent?) but since we’d spent the time and effort to have it chromed I was going to run it.
Sorry about the Vikings!
