I've been slacking with updates lately!
I'll start out with the Dodge then I have some GMT400 updates for yall.
I've done a bit with the Dodge and it's finally starting to become what I want and I still have more I'd like to do but that will be a thing I do over time. The truck has been doing good and I have put over two thousand miles on it in a month holy cow. I have two trips to San Luis Obispo coming up this month too so I have another 1,000 mile trip this month. Seems like I drive a ton.
I've done a few little things, I put the winch back on, got the A/C recharged, had the front windows tinted to 20% which matches the 18% on the factory rear doors, blacked out the gap between the windows, went over the plastics with the Armor All stuff (which actually worked better than I expected), and also ended up with a powder coated black stock rear bumper. Overall the truck is starting to look a bit better, I do want to mount a roof rack and ditch the light bar. I actually just finished replacing a u joint in the front axle and that sucked a ton but I'm hopeful that the passenger side goes a little smoother.
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GMT400 updates!
So my roommate Cameron, his truck went down due to the turbo failing so he just installed a new cartridge in the turbo and it's been happy at 12psi. We drove it around yesterday and today he started the 5 speed swap, removed the dash and installed the pedal. He also removed the entire wiring harness and is in the middle of stripping it down to bare minimum wiring and being able to ditch the computer behind the glove box.
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We drove up to Magila which is just barely north of Paradise (the site of the recent Camp Fire) and oh my goodness the damage. It was very sad to see. Anyway we went up here to pick up an NV4500 4x4 transmission for $700 for Cameron's diesel. The fire was within 200 yards of this guys house where we grabbed the transmission!
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And then for me, my friend Tyler picked up a 1988 RCLB "K3500" Silverado with a 454/th400 and wanted a nv4500 for it, so I traded him across the nv4500 from my 94 c2500 and now I own his 1991 K1500 ECSB with the odd options and a 4.3/5LM60. Plans are to drive up sometime this summer, put a new 4.3 in it, bring it back down and make it a project truck. I would like to use my LM7 engine and LS swap that truck when the time arises!
Current photos of my new thing, I'll be excited to go grab it. It drove really nice too and I feel it's worthy of doing what I want to do with it. I told Tyler if he were ever to get rid of it I better be the first one on that list lol
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And in addition, I sold the green truck for $500 sans light bar and bumper. The kid wanted it super bad so I was like whatever. Seems like he loves the thing and is doing all the work to repair the front end so good on him! I ate a ton of money on that truck but on the plus side it's gone.
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The PO of my Caltrans 3500HD sent me some photos that popped up in his snapchat one year memory thing, so here they are. I still need to fix that damn truck too! I'm 5 hours away from home with what seems like a hundred projects laying around still!!
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So I hope this is a bit of a tasteful update!