Recent content by Thicks91

I’ve been stuck working every Saturday for the past month so progress slowed on my truck. Today I got up and had some extra time after the honey do’s so I put together the rear of the truck loosely so I can measure driveline and limit straps and so I could mount the rear bedsides. Here’s some...

I mocked the seats up on 2x4s and got it close to where it was gonna live and then pulled a measurement to the tab off the seat from the cross tube and knew I needed head clearance for me I’m 5’11, There was a little pocket in the floor and in my full size f150 I like the seat pocketed back. So...

Here’s a seat reference. Incase anyone wants to see where they sit

Got the dash fitted which was a major pain in the ass but happy it’s in there. Time to make some cardboard templates for a aluminum center counsel

Not to much exciting stuff but got the seats tabbed out and made a spot for my harnesses to land. Don’t really want a big tube behind my seat.

Small update this weekend. Moved to the cab on Friday night with mocking up roughly where my seats were gonna go, then bent up some door bars & lacing, then ran the cross tubes and bent my seat rails. In between that I had to cut the sheet metal some more on the floor to get to the under cab...

Thank you, Slowly but surely definitely taking inspiration from your work!

Yah you did 😂 thought I had it dialed but it’s too tight. Gonna have to get crafty and cut the frame lol

A lot of tedious work getting wrapped up. The back window doesn’t fit or slide right in so gonna have to cut the frame unfortunately, working on wrapping up the front bumper as well. Here’s some pics of the half tubes.

Here’s some 1” .120 dom turned down in the lathe and then cut in half, that will be welded to the chassis to route the fuel lines and the transmission lines.

Here’s some Friday progress! This brake line tool is the best investment. I use RC car shock shaft pliers to hold the stainless line while I cut it. Skid plates on the fuel cell mounted, tabs for the tin on cell done and some brake lines and finish welding for the caliper mounts.

Little more progress on rear end, still need to run the hard lines.

This weekend since it was raining we tried to do some bench stuff, discovered that the 9” I have isn’t so friendly to a disc brake conversion so it’s gonna take some lathe work to smooth things out. Nevertheless the fill plug,limit straps, breather AN were all checked off, managed to get one set...

Productive day! Got to go down and roll a tube for the front bumper and that’s spiraled into getting the core support set in place and really getting down to the nitty gritty of finding out about the driver side wreck this thing was in… it’s got a clean title which is rad but had to pull the...

Friday update, cooler mount