the stepside: a drivabeater thread

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dusterbd13

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somewhere last week I also finally went ahead and recovered the headliner. And the overhead console. Last week and this weekend are a blur of work, to be honest. Only two days are solid for me at this point (yesterday and today) so take my days as a general timeline. In the process, I finally finished up the backup camera monitor mounting (piano hinge, short screws, and some 3m trim tape), installed the autodim and temp mirror, wired the stuff. Etc.


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so, Saturday morning, I backed up to the trailer, hooked up the wiring, and left out for the Albemarle Christmas parade where I was helping my wife's girl scout troop, and also, apparently, the whole countys worth of girl scouts. (had I known ahead of time about that, I woulda gotten a bigger trailer from brother Dallas).


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got home from delivering the trailer back, seeing the parents, etc, and went to doing serious work.




First, note that my camera doesn't pick up just how yellowed, stained with nicotine, and bad the interior plastics were. Here's some attempts. (door panel is striking, and the passengers side was the clean one. Its before and after, essentially)


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I finished cleaning and dying all the interior panels except the passengers door panel. Its still drying.


The door panel, I masked off the pad by your arm prioer to shooting with SEM dye. It tends to make carpet/cloth kind of stiff.


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carpet got the same treatment


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before reassembly (well, too much anyway) I went ahead and addressed the keyless entry and audio. Keyless entry has no pictures, but it was a cheap bulldog unit left over from some other project. Don t remember how much or which project, but it works.


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audio changed a bit. First, I replaced the blown 4x6 rear speakers with a pair of 3.5 I inherited somewhere. And I changed the rockford fosgate monoblock amp for a 4 channel kicker that came with my BMW. Two channels of the kicker are running the 6.5 speakers in the doors, and the other two channels are bridged to my sub. I also built an amp mount with one inch wide steel bar stock bent and drilled. Screwed it to the rear cab wall under the trim where it wouldn't pole through to the outside. Ran all my wiring behind the carpet on the rear wall for a clean install. Damn thing sound GLORIUS. Still need to build a different box, as I want the 8 down-firing under the passengers seat. Unused space there, and space is at a premium in the cab. But, were almost perfect.


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finished the day with reassembly. And scrubbing the seats. Again, the dirt I got out doesn't photograph well....


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now that the truck is on runflats and has load bags, I needed a compressor to carry with me. The hight dollar, heavy duty 12v compressor from harbor freight, and one of their 50 cal ammo cans, makes it pretty compact and easy to store.


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up next is to finish reassembly, refinish the steering wheel, fix the worn out rag joint at the steering box, refinish the passengers side door panel, etc. plenty left to do....

 

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You thought about replacing the rag joint with a flaming river or Jeep joint instead?
 

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I see you cross posting build threads....I've been remiss in posting my GMT400 content here or on GRM I suppose. Cool reading through your thread; it's paralleled a lot of what I've done. I went with the flaming river U joint for whatever that's worth.

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