Joshualater21
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Hey everyone,
So I have been wanting to post this up since I bought the truck. Sorry for the long post. Earlier this year I went and bought Marcels old crew cab silverado from the guy he sold it to years ago. I knew it needed some work and got it at a really good price so I jumped on it. Upon bringing it home, the original plan was just to replace all the heims and uniballs on the kit as they were pretty corroded and I didn't want any failures on the trail having the family in the truck. Pretty much just do the minimum to get it out this year. Upon tearing into it, I knew that was not going to be the case. Every nut and bolt so far has been either seized or missing, and nothing was taken care of or maintained, so I started ripping into everything to see what it really needed. So between work, school, having twins this year and a two and a half year old keeping us busy, I have been very slowly chipping away at this thing. Currently, the front kit is off and found that the lower contol arm shock tabs are slightly ovaled. So going to have to buy some weld washers to go over the tabs to keep the new hardware and shocks from getting damaged. All shocks got removed and sent over to Kevin at Dialed Shock Prep where they were completely redone with black cerakote on the shock bodies, new powder coat on the springs and anodized the rest. He made these shocks look brand new which was suprising for how beat the shocks were. Couldn't recommend him enough, he absolutely killed it! Currently working on removing the bumps to send him. Got 3 of the 4 out and still fighting the last one. So if anyone has recommendations on removing stubborn bumps, let me know! And yes, I used heat. I am trying not to cut the cans as I don't have a welder right now to put new ones on if I cut them out or cut into them. As for the rest of the truck, I have really been trying to clean it up as much as I can while I wait for parts to come in. Started going through the fuel system because the sending unit wasn't working. Once I got in the tank, the internal hoses from the filler neck were dry rotted and sitting at the bottom of the tank, the can was all beat in on the bottom and heavily corroded on the bottom so went and bought a new fuel cell. All of the other fuel lines were dry rotted so I currently have everything ripped out up to the pressure regulator and working on replacing all of that. Havent looked inside the fuel filter yet but I am sure I am probably going to be needing a new internal filter or just a whole new filter assembly. Moving up to the front, when I bought the truck the hood was all dented up from flying into the windshield apparently. That damaged all of the hood brackets and the core support Marcel made many moons ago. So I ordered some new dirt king inner fenders so I can get the hood to sit right and have the ability to mount things a little better in the engine bay. Moving to the rear, I was just going to grease the bushings and change the heims on the links. I only got to the driver side to find the bolts were seized in the bushing. So had to get a sawzall to cut the bolt out. So just went ahead and bought new bushings to throw in there. That's a small portion of what I have so far. Truck is sitting in my driveway on jack stands and have been trying to do what I can when I can. This is my first prerunner so I am probably gonna be asking a bunch of questions and will be posting updates when I have them. I'll get better at taking pictures too haha.
So I have been wanting to post this up since I bought the truck. Sorry for the long post. Earlier this year I went and bought Marcels old crew cab silverado from the guy he sold it to years ago. I knew it needed some work and got it at a really good price so I jumped on it. Upon bringing it home, the original plan was just to replace all the heims and uniballs on the kit as they were pretty corroded and I didn't want any failures on the trail having the family in the truck. Pretty much just do the minimum to get it out this year. Upon tearing into it, I knew that was not going to be the case. Every nut and bolt so far has been either seized or missing, and nothing was taken care of or maintained, so I started ripping into everything to see what it really needed. So between work, school, having twins this year and a two and a half year old keeping us busy, I have been very slowly chipping away at this thing. Currently, the front kit is off and found that the lower contol arm shock tabs are slightly ovaled. So going to have to buy some weld washers to go over the tabs to keep the new hardware and shocks from getting damaged. All shocks got removed and sent over to Kevin at Dialed Shock Prep where they were completely redone with black cerakote on the shock bodies, new powder coat on the springs and anodized the rest. He made these shocks look brand new which was suprising for how beat the shocks were. Couldn't recommend him enough, he absolutely killed it! Currently working on removing the bumps to send him. Got 3 of the 4 out and still fighting the last one. So if anyone has recommendations on removing stubborn bumps, let me know! And yes, I used heat. I am trying not to cut the cans as I don't have a welder right now to put new ones on if I cut them out or cut into them. As for the rest of the truck, I have really been trying to clean it up as much as I can while I wait for parts to come in. Started going through the fuel system because the sending unit wasn't working. Once I got in the tank, the internal hoses from the filler neck were dry rotted and sitting at the bottom of the tank, the can was all beat in on the bottom and heavily corroded on the bottom so went and bought a new fuel cell. All of the other fuel lines were dry rotted so I currently have everything ripped out up to the pressure regulator and working on replacing all of that. Havent looked inside the fuel filter yet but I am sure I am probably going to be needing a new internal filter or just a whole new filter assembly. Moving up to the front, when I bought the truck the hood was all dented up from flying into the windshield apparently. That damaged all of the hood brackets and the core support Marcel made many moons ago. So I ordered some new dirt king inner fenders so I can get the hood to sit right and have the ability to mount things a little better in the engine bay. Moving to the rear, I was just going to grease the bushings and change the heims on the links. I only got to the driver side to find the bolts were seized in the bushing. So had to get a sawzall to cut the bolt out. So just went ahead and bought new bushings to throw in there. That's a small portion of what I have so far. Truck is sitting in my driveway on jack stands and have been trying to do what I can when I can. This is my first prerunner so I am probably gonna be asking a bunch of questions and will be posting updates when I have them. I'll get better at taking pictures too haha.
