72 k20 project

[twistedchevy]

Pure awsomeness, I found you build on pirate but it is no where as detailed. Just amazing.

[ryanroo]

Originally Posted by COS399

Nice work as usual. Are you going to angle cut or keep it square? It's gonna look good either way.

Thanks!
right now i am leaning towards just making a square cut on each staggered so they both stick out the same amount. we'll see i guess. this is one of those things that changes in my head a lot.

Originally Posted by twistedchevy

Pure awsomeness, I found you build on pirate but it is no where as detailed. Just amazing.

Thanks! this has always been the 'original' thread. has all of the updates in real time. i post to a few others but sometimes they get behind and i skip over details through laziness... haha

so. i ordered this the other day.



had to bolt it in. in my defense, i measured this before i built stuff, so i knew the starter would fit. however, that was a long time before i made the fuel lines and had since spaced it off.

this is the oem position for the 2nd gen dodge flywheel housing.



in the truck



its crammed into the fuel lines and brake line. the clamp for the lines is toast.

the solution

mill some holes,



turn some bungs



weld



and the new position





the return line will need one additional offset. but nothing else will be affected negatively. it tucks the starter motor nicely up and out of the way. i may need to gently persuade the dipstick tube but i haven't checked that.

[ryanroo]

nice detailed shot of that ignition feed wire. stupid technology.

[jbclassix]

saweet.

[ryanroo]

Thanks, Jeremy

[jbclassix]

I like the line clamps too. I'm pretty jealous that you get to use your shop for personal use. I work in a machine shop inside a fab shop and can't do that. It's like being a diabetic cake baker.

I may have made some "test pieces" on the water jet...
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[ryanroo]

I do a lot of it on the bosses generosity. Having the knowledge and know how but not being able to apply it for yourself would be a bit of a pain. I think my boss values the fact that I can operate everything at the shop with productive capacity, but since I don't always do it, off the clock practice is good for the shop too. Either way I'm lucky I get to play with the toys. Word about the ol water cooler is, a big five axis milling center is on its way to our corner of the world. We'll be the only machine that isn't black in four hundred miles with the capacity it has. I don't hold any hopes of getting the keys to that play house, but I can design and have the shop cut it. This might make life hard... Haha. Now that I think of it, it should be able to cut wheels...

[ryanroo]

got the last exhaust mount made for the tailpipe section



the clutch is on the way, may as well look into this.



this has been on my list for a while, but these things are expensive and i kept finding other stuff to buy.

the dodge (3rd gen) hydros use a funny twist lock for the master cylinder. i made a bracket that needed this hole chopped in the firewall.



i plasma cut the shape into a square, and punched some holes in it. then i got home and realized i needed space for the twist lock. so i laid out and made the spacer piece with a holesaw and grinder out of 3/16"



since i was chopping through the stiffening rib on the firewall i made a backup bracket that helps support it and has nutserts in it



painted and installed







hits the back of the bell housing fine even though its in the wrong truck and bolted to the wrong BH..

[swamp rat]

Nice work as usual!

[Dieselwrencher]

Looking good. I can't wait to see the bed painted and the wood in!

[ryanroo]

Thanks gents!

i will enjoy that day very much too Ryan. whenever it may be.

[mx289]

Great work as always.

Looking forward to some more green body panels !


Does the body man need another...Reminder ?..

[ryanroo]

Originally Posted by mx289

Great work as always.

Looking forward to some more green body panels !


Does the body man need another...Reminder ?..

Thanks!

the body guy called me just today. doors are green and he's ready for the bed. its one of those calls you just dont expect... haha

i got all angry on the cold pipe



i had a plan, it could have worked. after looking at my available donut material left overs i decided to build another part twice.



whatever

gives me better angle of approach on all this stuff.




I need a filter. I need a boot. blah blah blah... haha i'll get to that, sometime.

for some reason saturday was the day for buying tires. all of the sudden i decided it was time.

i had waffled in my head between Cooper STTs and Toyo MTs. then i start talking to the tire dude at Co-op. he suggests these. Hercules Trail Diggers. nice redneck name. i take a look at one he had in stock. same carcass and casing as an STT, just rebranded with different tread. made in ohio. significant savings. I'll take two please. ill pick up another pair in a few weeks.

I like them. i never like the cheaper ones... haha



35-12.50/17

then the old aired up aired down thing. ill get wheels soon enough i hope.



i think i have the rear a little high in this pic. it comes down an inch or so.

[stersam]

White steelies and chrome hub caps would go a long way on this truck.

[1985-GMC]

Wow looking great! I vote white steelies with stock caps!

[ryanroo]

Originally Posted by stersam

White steelies and chrome hub caps would go a long way on this truck.

Originally Posted by 1985-GMC

Wow looking great! I vote white steelies with stock caps!

NO CHROME! haha

as for wheels, i have been unable to locate a stock-ish looking wheel in a 17X9. i would run them if i could.

for now i am planning on soft 8s that will get blasted and PC'ed white, most likely.

[stersam]

What about wagon wheels?

[$20071k10]

looking good Ryan! what is the little pipe wrapping around the bottom of the front finder? more progress on the bumper as well?

[1985-GMC]

You might call up wheel vintiques and see if they have some. If not I bet they can put some together with 17" outer rims and 8 lug centers. They have 17" 5 lug steelies listed in 7,8,9" wide so I don't see why they couldn't make some in 8 lug as well. I bet they'd start to sell a bunch of them too if they had them listed.

Good thing you don't want chrome because the stock caps are stainless... Lol

[ryanroo]

i hopped on that idea. called them today. i dont remember the last time i felt like i was of such disinterest to a vendor. like it was painful to answer the question of "can you do a 17" can with an 8 lug center?" WV- "we dont make those." well, crucify me for asking. crimeny.

anyhow, it looks like itll still be the soft 8s, in white hopefully.

[1985-GMC]

Well that sucks! I wonder if a bunch of us called in and asked about them if they'd reconsider that decision...

It might not hurt to call around to some of the other wheel vendors also.

[stersam]

Have you looked at rickson wheels? They specialize in 19.5 wheels but will make anything.

[jbclassix]

did I miss where you welded the marman clamp flange on your compressor outlet? I need to do that to my HX40. did you make the flange or buy it?

[ryanroo]

I may do that guys. I'll look up rickson today. Thanks for the suggestions!

Jeremy, it's in here somewhere. It was a while back. I bought 2 1/2" flange set that came half aluminum and half steel with the clamp. I think from treadstone performance. Trying to find a big one for these inlet of the hx55 now...

Anyhow, I can try to find some mote of pics this evening. Pretty strait forward but a little more die grinder than any sane person likes...Haha

[$20071k10]

try Stockton wheel a friend of mine had them make a set of 8 lug 15's for his jeep. they say they will make what ever you want