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Old 05-26-2017, 03:02 PM   #1
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My 88 r30 build

Many know me by my 72 I built and sold and replaced it with 2 88s.

I bought my dually from a board member and truck is a solid no rust was originally a choo choo customs truck.

The day I picked it up
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Re: My 88 r30 build

Thought I wanted 24s
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Old 05-26-2017, 03:05 PM   #3
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Re: My 88 r30 build

As I worked on it I changed gear ratio from 4:11 to 3:42 and installed new gas tanks and new carpet, full kicker stereo and decided I wanted 16s for the time and ditched the simulators and painted the original wheels blue
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Re: My 88 r30 build

During that time I decided to get the truck one solid color so I sanded the entire truck for days so I could lay a couple coats of epoxy primer and stumbled across some original 16" alcoa wheels and now it's current state is
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Old 05-26-2017, 03:09 PM   #5
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Re: My 88 r30 build

All the doors have been rebuilt with new window motors, door lock actuators and all new rubbers from precision rubber and while doing that I re dyed door panels and started recovering the inserts
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Re: My 88 r30 build

Plans are bags and ridetech control arms on front so I modified a set of lowers for the 1 ton ball joints
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