Project: Suicidal

[Myst]

are you going to use any shcoks or anythign for the bed?

[pearl91chevy]

you mean to hold it up better and wahtnot? yes i will be using some.. im waiting 2 get some from my welding teacher as soon as he picks them up or finds them..

[Myst]

you going to place them on the side with the hinges?? pass side?

[pearl91chevy]

um.. still undesided, gonna see how long they are first and so whers the best place to mount them.. and hopefully it will be the bed tilt straight and no uneven..

[Myst]

yea I was wondering that b/c it would be weird just having that lifting it ...

[pearl91chevy]

from what i've seen on tilt beds, they only raise it with the bag, theres no struts or anything at all.. my main reason for using it is to keep the bed level when i lift it..

[pearl91chevy]

well my friend let me kno today hes got a 305 and a 350 has has to get outta his shop and hes selling both for 100bucks.. and damn right i took the 350 its outta a 94 silverado and ill get more info 2night on it.. also pics.. hopefully pickin it up around 9ish

[pearl91chevy]

alright.. picked it up last night and talk about heavy lol.. im still debating if i wanna put it in my truck or not.. also i found its a 5.7L.. ill have some pics this afternoon..

[jas0ne]

looking good jesse and a 5.7L is the same thing as a 350...

[pearl91chevy]

i thought 350's could be dif liters?

[benz88]

Quote: Originally Posted by pearl91chevy

i thought 350's could be dif liters?

nope, unless their bored over or de-stroked. but then its not a 350 anymore. looks good

[pearl91chevy]

alright.. learn something new everyday lol.. well i have it for sale on here i think for another 12 days, so if i dont get it sold, then im sure it will be kept everyone i know are wanting me to keep it and put it in the truck so..

[pearl91chevy]

well has been a while since i've updated, i mostly this weekend got my tank and compressor mounted along with the horn.. and ran all the wires through the truck and into the back.. i still got to fine tune the horn but its all workin so far which is good.. i also bought some hinges for the tailgate so it will open like a door, im gonna get to work on that in a few..

[pearl91chevy]

sorry guys, im not posting much, i've been so busy with other things.. i did manage to order my valves finnaly!! they should be here the end of this week so ill post some vid up of the bed tilting and a lil horn honk lol.. im not taking the bed off till i do get all that working properly and then the tear down happens again.. plans are paintin the frame blue, and misc lil white things underthere and everything else black

[pearl91chevy]

alright got a big update.. first of all i decided i wanted my tailgate.. reason for this is becasue the blazer tailgate, on the inside edge theres to much of a gap, so i asked the kid if he would trade straight up with me and he gets the blazer tailgate and he said cool.. so i got to flatten this one out now and box a plate in.. and now hopefully suicidin the tailgate will be much easier..
Next thing is i got the bed mounted down, so i can undo the bed and let it lift when i desire, or i can hold the bed down with "NO" rattles or movement at all of the bed.. i couldnt beleive how clean this went..


Also one last thing, i need to paint that rusty thing for my brakes, i think its the booster but idk, anyways can i take it off without having to re-bleed the brakes? no fluid is in thing right? sorry im not a guy that does stuff like that..

[DCSHOECOUSA]

man truck is looking really cool.....thats your booster if you take it off you will need to bleed your brakes again

[pearl91chevy]

thats not what i wanted to hear but i guess i gotta do what i gotta do.. im bout to run down and get some pics of the progess in a bit..

[pearl91chevy]

i feel sorry for whoever is in front of me and pisses me off lol.. these are bright as hell all tog.

[Myst]

looks good ...hey I thought that the rails were suppose to lay directly onto the tubing on the drivers side...you know what I mena??...b/c the cotter pin holds the bed up

[pearl91chevy]

i know what you mean but the bed is all the way down.. the is not enough gap between the new brackets for the bed rails to come down into.. but i've had 4 people in there and the bed wont go down any farther.. and no the cotter pin isnt hold the bed down or up.. its just holding it in place

[Myst]

well yea its holding it in place yet it should be resting on the metal correct?

[pearl91chevy]

yes is should be resting on the metal but somehow it worked out so if i do goto cut the top of th brackets off then the bed will sit extremely uneven.. but i do get your point

[pearl91chevy]

alright.. well my stuff came in the mail.. i got my 2 valves finnaly, im very un-paisent lol. but one of the airfittings i got was the wrong size and then the other one was backordered.. so i ran to menards and got a few fittings that will get me by last night.. i spent bout an hour getting the valves in place and the wiring all good.. put the barb'ed fittings on for the airline and come to relize i got the wrong size so now the airline wont fit.. so now i got to make a trip back and get the right size.. i was so un-happy last night lol but its alright, everything else is working good.. also got the gas door shaved fully now. i got pics but im just gonna wait to put everything up till 2night and hopefulyl have a vid to..

[pearl91chevy]

well turns out one of the valves didnt wanna work so i called sd and they hooked me up with a new valve free of charge which is awsome.. I LOVE YOU SD!! lol well also got the bed primered up 2night and bought a new air gauge.. i bought this one becasue its so small, bout the size of a quater, and i can install it wherever i want without having to worry about it being in the way or anything..

[pearl91chevy]

i kno i still got body work to do around the door and the rollpan and misc places but trust me they will be fixed lol.. i just need to cover that bare metal up with something

[Myst]

you should ahve just use aircraft stripper instaed of grinding it off....alot faster

[pearl91chevy]

probly could of.. im running the truck up the road a bit to see how much a guy will sand blast the bed liner tom..

[pearl91chevy]

alright got a vid of the bed.. im still waitin on the new valve but it still goes up lol..

[bmack8613]

thats pretty sweet man

[got_u_sick]

Hahaha...nice vid. Lookin good man, keep it up.

[DCSHOECOUSA]

haha that looks pretty slick man

[pearl91chevy]

thanks guys.. also im proud becasue i was told by alot of people i wasnt cappable of doing this.. but this goes to show i can.. but thanks again guys for the replys

[pearl91chevy]

well turns out that the drivers side door isnt gonna be fixible.. it could be but i dont want gobs of bondo on the door so im just gonna order a door for 180bucks.. im gonna check the pass. side door in a bit to see how bad that is..

[jman]

Quote: Originally Posted by pearl91chevy

well turns out that the drivers side door isnt gonna be fixible.. it could be but i dont want gobs of bondo on the door so im just gonna order a door for 180bucks.. im gonna check the pass. side door in a bit to see how bad that is..

what's wrong with it?

[pearl91chevy]

first of all there was a big crease in teh bottem of the door for the like 2nd week i had the truck.. i needed to replace it becasue of that, then the underneith of the door is just horribly cover in rust thats gone through... the bottem was reskined but wasnt aligned right so when the doors shut, its stick out more then it should.. so im just gonna make it easy and buy a new door lol.. look at the bottem of the door and u know what im tlkin bout.. it was way worse in person

[jman]

Quote: Originally Posted by pearl91chevy

first of all there was a big crease in teh bottem of the door for the like 2nd week i had the truck.. i needed to replace it becasue of that, then the underneith of the door is just horribly cover in rust thats gone through... the bottem was reskined but wasnt aligned right so when the doors shut, its stick out more then it should.. so im just gonna make it easy and buy a new door lol.. look at the bottem of the door and u know what im tlkin bout.. it was way worse in person

i agree the new door would be the easy way to fix it. where are you buying the door from. sorry to ask so many questions but i'm getting ready to have my truck painted and i have the infamous rust on the inside of the bottom of the door.

[Twisted Minis]

Hey that round thing you were talking about is the brake booster. Pull the master cylinder off the front of it, and let the brakelines support it. You'll be able to pull the booster out without having to re-bleed the system. I've swapped out a few boosters without bleeding the system. If anyone tells you different they're lost.
But bleeding the brakes really isnt hard at all. Just takes 2 people.

[pearl91chevy]

i got my door from a local auto shop but i dont kno where hes gettin it from.. i kno LMC has doors for around 160$... sorry im not to sure on that though, ill let u kno though.. as for the booster thanks, i've bleed brakes before, i just dont wanna do it on this truck at all.. but thanks though for the info on it

[pearl91chevy]

got another vid up.. i got my valve and fittings today.. got them installed and heres some playin..

[pearl91chevy]

well i'de decided today was gonna be a bodywork day.. so i started doin the fine sanding on the cab and whatever else needs it.. im still tryin to decided it i wanna finish the gas door or not.. also im tryin to decide how i wanna do the rear end.. im thinkin leavin the orignal tailgate how it is and molding the license plate box in there without the tailgate skin, and then moldin it all to one peice.. i wanna do this without the skin becasuei jsut dont like how it looks, i just think its to plain back there.. ill have some pics up 2night hopefully

[Myst]

hey checked out the video ...the body lines dont seem to line up with the bed/cab ...and the bed looks tilted....not that way..haha..like not straight...like it goes to the side but back also

[bmack8613]

it looks like the bed is hitting the cab man

[pearl91chevy]

first of all the bed doesnt hit the cab, theres a bout a 2inch gap between them.. the reason of the bed being so croocked is where the bags located, and also rem the tailgate isnt on so that gives it that less of support back there.. hopefully the struts will fix this problem.

[pearl91chevy]

alright.. got the new door shaved up with the help of my welding teacher puttin the plates in.. i came home and did the bodywork on it today, laid some primer, and put it tog.. also thursday i tried aligning my truck at school but i didnt make it up so thats y the splash gaurd is chipped, the light luckily didnt break.. supposed to be nice out this weekend so im goin drivin in a bit..

[pearl91chevy]

and the beds sittin up casue i didnt fully air outthe bag, i didnt notice till after i took the pics, sorry

[pearl91chevy]

should have some more progress pics soon.. im puttin a wall up in the garage for the 3rd car, just so i can do work and not have to keep pulling the cars in and out..

[pearl91chevy]

well havent really wanted to keep this thread going since no one ever replies but heres the frame all detailed up and cleaned. still gotta finish the rest though and i decided to do dual bags for the bed since the bed warps to much with the tailgate on..

[Myst]

WOW...alot fricken nicer...

[jman]

nice work man

[DCSHOECOUSA]

i really like it