AM92's 98 K1500 "Elsie" Build

[am92]

Yeah with the fans off its fine, but at night witht the lights on when the fans kick on at a stoplight it drops it down to like 10 and then it comes up to 12 when they get up to speed.

 

[DRAGGIN95]

The bad part about side post cables is they corrode inside an you can't see it. Mine were nasty....[/QUOTE]

Exactly, I have changed out a bunch of cables for the same reason's!

 

[bluex]

Do they both start up at the same time? That a huge current draw if so an I doubt a new alt would help much unless you go to the nbs 145 amp one....

 

[am92]

Yeah they do, but even after they get up to speed the voltage is still low and the lights get dim at idle...the NBS AD244 alt was what I was looking into as a replacement

 

[bluex]

Ya I don't know the specs on those fans but even if one takes 15 amps at startup an 7-8 to run (its probably more than this, im just making an example) your looking at a 30 amp startup load an a 15 amp constant when they are to speed.

Its probably going to take new wires an the nbs alt to run then without a little dimming. I have a Jeep fan for mine, its a single 16" fan an it takes 25 amps on startup, an 12ish to run iirc....

 

[am92]

Got the bumper reinforced and reinstalled today. It wasn't messed up for long, but I just couldn't stand how it looked.

New tabs welded on

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Reinforcement plates welded on

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Installed

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I'll get some better pics outside with her tomorrow. It was a fun project, but I'm glad to be done for a while

 

[blue_92_sierra]

Bumper looks nice in there!

 

[am92]

Bumper looks nice in there!

Thanks, Im glad to have it raised up...right after I put the body lift on it really bugged me, but I didnt have a welder. Luckily I have a buddy who let me borrow his to fix it

 

[Darkrider]

Looks good andrew!

Sent from a padded cell in the secure ward.....trying to avoid the shock therapy...

 

[ChrisAU]

Looks awesome!