I've got a few more updates from the last month! I've been slacking on posting lol
The HD:
I finished getting this truck back together and it is now drivable and I put 115 miles on it last weekend just driving it around, and honestly it did great! It rides so extremely rough without any weight though - the suspension is literally your seat!
I made some temporary mud flaps and rigged up some trailer lights for brake lights in the interim, but I need to do some more with the mud flaps so the bottom stays straight across rather than curling up, in addition my crappy tail light brackets are actually Simpson hangers that I bent which kind of works, but they are flimsy and I need to do something about it as the wind and weight/drag of the licence plate bends the one side down pretty easily.
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In addition, I picked up a plate with a gooseneck ball off craigslist (guy had it listed for $110, I tried to bargain which got me nowhere, I didn't even have the full $110 so I ended up giving him like $107 lol) so at some point I need to clean it up and get it attached to the frame.
In one of the pictures below I drove up to the Canada border and it's literally 20 feet behind the truck in the photo, all the border fence is up here is just double barb wire fences lol
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The 99 2500:
I've been doing a lot more with this truck recently, and currently I have the fenders and hood from a 05 2500hd mounted up, and started reassembly of the engine bay. There are a fair amount of wires that were cut in the harness so I've been slowly piecing those back together with some spare parts harnesses I have laying around. I do like having a cateye to look at again!
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I also managed to get the third door to open today, and the latch on the bottom of the door was broken so it was a bit of a pain to get it open, in addition the window was barely hanging on but luckily I have the third door still from the parts cab truck that I will be stealing the door latch innards and window from to fix mine.
I am going to spend a few more days on the truck switching from a brake booster to hydroboost, new steering column, strip the interior, replace the carpet, yada yada I still have a ton to do!
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I picked up a parts 2002 Yukon that is pretty stripped outside of the interior, which is mainly all I wanted. It has a fairly clean interior so I am taking the door panels, seats, dash, and center console for the 99. I have already started taking parts off this thing such as some wiring, fender brackets, and bolts which it's been a bit of a saving grace for some of that stuff. I kinda wanted to piece this one back together with the 6.0/nv4500 to have a fun unique build but honestly the 99 2500 will be so much more useful!
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Other News:
Not much really, I've been busy with spring cleanup around the shop and in the shop so I have less of a mess everywhere and it's been going well. I cut up the parts 99 cab I had and loaded up a bunch of scrap yesterday, I still have more on the property but the guy who bought the 91 k1500 from me wanted it so he's running out of time before I get rid of it myself. In addition he wanted the 99 1500 frame I had and he also needs to get the 82 k10 off my property so I can stop looking at it (I would have already junked it but he actually paid me for it back in December lol)
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I still have yet to decide on my LBZ duramax route, about swapping the HD or finding a frame and swapping everything over. I'm super wishy-washy and at the moment I'm leaning towards finding a frame so it could be a summer project for me. We will see!
Then I also need to get this 03 VW Golf TDI in the shop, a buddy dropped it off last fall and I was waiting on a RossTech VCDS tool so I could check the timing, buddy did a timing belt on it and the timing has been off ever since. Now that I have the tool I can get it timed properly and hopefully this can leave my shop here soon!
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After all that I'll be down to 5 trucks and the parts Yukon, really that should be 3 at most but that's just not me!