^sucks. you got it started right?

 

Yup. It finally runs after a year of being built.

 

Painted grille black, installed billet grille, clear parking lights, went from 45 seires tires to 30s

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w183/civiciz4me/DSC00780.jpg

 

I'll be the first to say it...Adjust your headlights, they arent installed right.
http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f199/98-s10-head-light-install-how-to-171732/#post2021961

*Awaits the next 30 people*

 

yes i know they are off,, i figure out how to adjust em. first s10 and aquired in august,, learnin the ins n outs of it

 

ahhhh i see what i did,,,er well actually what i didnt do... thanks for that link,,,went outside n fixed it, alll better now

 

haha, no problem. I did the same thing with mine when I first had the lights out...wasn't until I saw that thread until I corrected them. It's the little things that make all the difference.

 

yea,,,after i got it all put together i was standin there think wtf is wrong wit my headlights,,,big ol gap....all cuz of that lil slip there,, looks so much better,,

 

Ordered the back tires for my vette wheels and got the front tires mounted on the rims. Also ordered spacers!!!

 

Washed it last night & threw down on the major detail...it rained today.

 

i drove twenty minutes to school and back, then looked at it and wished it was lifted

 

Put the transmission back in it

 

Put the transmission back in it

damn you, with your access to a lift! lol

my buddies vette has the same rims.

 

i said goodbye to my truck today. getting deployed for the next 6 months. i hope my wife is nice to my truck while im gone (she's jealous because i spend more time working on my truck than with her):haha:

 

Damn lol. I hate my rims. They are all beat to hell. but I used it as a daily driver for a while. Once I get my car on the road I'm taking the truck off to start work on it. I need to replace the entire exhaust system.

and it's nice having a family in the junkyard business lol. Although this is the only real time I've ever used the lift.

 

So I got the bed hole cut for the air ride, got it mounted on the truck, drove it around the block. Right before I was gonna turn back on my street, I get pulled over, for being a suspicious vehicle in the area. Luckily, I didnt get a ticket. The cop was being a dick.

 

started wiring my new headlights, then it started raining so here i am

 

Installed my bed rail caps

 

those are just going to end up scratching the shit out of your paint. jussayin

 

I tried to replace my roll pan with a 98+ rear bumper, but ran into a problem, when I discovered the previous owner welded the trailer hitch in, so I'm gonna have to fab some brackets:rant:

 

cut the hitch off.

 

I thought about that, but theres just too much cutting involved in that, he welded it all the way around, if I were to go that route it would be easier to cut the rear of the frame off.

 

Today, I deiced to stop pretending my truck was a Sonoma and swapped my front end back to S10. Now I'm just pretending it's younger than it really is.

 

i put ss mirrors on day before yesterday. im always slow to post in this when i do something lol

 

did you ever get your clear coat situation figured out jaymez?

 

The long and short of it boiled down to Nope.

Some Googling showed similar results experienced by other people, but, it took them at least a year to experience the failures that I experienced.

I contacted Trinity 1945 and rather than troubleshoot with me, they offered me a free gallon of clear or a refund. I took the refund and they had the money in my Pay Pal account within half an hour.

I've chalked the experience up to a crappy product that was bound to fail either way and was accelerated by my back yard chemistry. I learned a few lessons from the experience, albeit the hard way, and won't repeat the same mistakes the next time I go ahead and paint.

 

Found out a bolt fell out of the exhaust manifold. The last one on the manifold that holds the oil fill bracket. Installed the new one today. Sized up some new flexible steel lined oil lines for my remote oil filter. Worked on a home built Wafer Fuse holder for my Alternator wire. It will replace the fuseable link when done.

 

I finally got my check engine light to shut off by doing the plug fouler mod & it freekin works !!

S-10 forum is da chit !!!

 

Replaced the loooong black 1 gage wire from engine to battery with a short 1 gage wire, (there was an open bolt hole on the block under the Alternater), to the frame 12" away. From frame to body near wafer fuse under battery, up to battery. My lights on my dash and headlights seem brighter.