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so then we spent 9 hours figuring out exactly precisely which fan spacer to run in order to get the best air flow (pronounced protect our fingers from getting sliced off by the fan)

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mandatory stare and compare if you dare

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Awesome, lay it on me brother, any help is greatly appreciated, stick around for the door fitment episode!? ha ha

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cool, so you replaced the water pump and the radiator and fixed the cooling issue, what's next?

not so fast Tiger - it wasn't until we fixed and dialed in our distributor that the overheating problem went away

I believe we discovered that the old vacuum can was not vacuuming therefor not advancing the timing with manifold vacuum (highest at idle type of thing)

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mandatory stare and compare of the old not working/non adjustable vacuum canister and the new adjustable one

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then we Geeked out and replaced the weights and springs in our dizzy to really dial it in

and let me tell you she runs cold with only holy water in the rad now

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bruh, this is boring, don't you have some other bright ideas?

Me: "hold my beer!"

got the cargo light working

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also got the dome light working, sometimes ladies and gentlemen you gotstoo take the small victories, am I right or am I right?

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energized by my electrical prowls I decided to take it up a notch

[yes this is from my "In love with cheap digital gauges - era!"] (no idea why I'm quoting myself?)

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Warning: if you think my gauge bazel cluster thingie has seen better days you should have seen it wrapped in upholstery and full of glue before i cleaned it up

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yes one of the bottom four holes is crooked and no I did not cut it out like that, the PO must have done it, I would never hole saw a crooked hole (ha ha)

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OMG, this gauge cluster is Fugly, how do we tell him?

hold on there Sparky it's about to get a whole lot worse

it was a temporary solution so that we could take Dusty camping later on and not overheat or under charge the battery or God forbid go 97 in a 35 MPH zone type a thing

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What's your addy? I will send you a better bezel. Man turn that beaver loose out of your garage. :lol:

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that's friggen hilarious, no doubt huh, I soooo appreciate the offer, but hold off for the separate follow up Dusty Build Thread II (aka the sequel - coming soon) you may not like the direction we are going, ha ha

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Enjoying the build, and glad to get in on the ground floor at the beginning of a build thread of yours!

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I'm glad, and welcome, you won't be disappointed things are about to get exciting

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I'm in. Just don't say you're 2JZ swapping it. :lol:

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Bwhaaa haa ha (that's the most underrated comment on here)

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so what is he going to do, the [ahem] suspense is killing me

did somebody say suspension?

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Now that doesn’t look too crazy not like it’s a set of switches to make Dusty jump

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Is the C notch and dropped spindles coming this afternoon? :lol:

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ha ha there will be no C notching on this thread, I swear any time I see yet another C notch welded in a part of me cries like a baby nobody wants their truck in the weeds (and there goes half the readers)

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now before we did anything first we had the truck laser scanned for precise and exact measurements and rendered this to scale drawing

Note: if your truck does not match these specs exactly, check your truck, there must be something wrong with your truck

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so if I recall correctly (mind you we did this 3 years ago) but lost the pics and only recently found some of them, we done did the rear coils first, by the way I love the trailing arm rear suspension on these trucks, so unique

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alright, mandatory stare and compare

folks, does the stock rear coil spring look normal to you or does it look like it's been heated up and collapsed some? I ask because I don't know what they are supposed to look like, so any feedback is greatly appreciated