Tow rigs are built not bought!!

Well, I stumbled upon a better bed off a truck on Craigslist. Bought the whole bed. It's not perfect but it is a much better platform than the one we have been working on. Brigham (5280K5) brought over his working crew cab and helped more it Jordan (stogie25) and John (not a 4x4 guy) provided extra muscle to help get the thing into my garage.
Anyone want a patched up, cut up short bed? I need to get rid of the other one now. (and I have 2 perfect tail gates too)

 

Nice set up.

 

Thanks.

I had a couple of strange ideas for the old bed.

Cut it down so that I can mount the back half to the garage wall with a working tailgate and make it into a fold down workbench that could be used for welding small stuff etc.
Hmm.......Evil thoughts.

 

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!

So the whole point of using an old scrapped truck was to "recycle" it. I just can't seem to win with this truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brigham and I took the old bed off the other night and noticed a crack rasied up out of the 14bff. You have to understand that I powerwashed this diff several times before you could even see it like this.


This is what I found when I popped the cover off!!!!!!!!!!!!





I was really hoping to NOT have to put time, energy and money into the axles!!!! Can't wait to pop open the front now.
You would be absolutly AMAZED at the wierd random stuff I have had to deal with on this truck.
Anyone have some extra 14bff parts, complete 1 ton rear, etc etc laying around????? (Anyone want to come rebuild this???)

I know many of you would think this is a complete truck at this point. (those of you surfing the net from the couch on the front porch).

Time to try it out and ponder the broken axle. (Cheers!!!)

 

bummer i just gave my 14 bolt away. there should be some hanging oround for cheap!!! opcorn:

 

Carrier is fine. Detroit is on it's way. Ground down and welded the crack shut mostly just to keep water out.
We also took the drums off and got the DIY4X disc caliper brackets mounted. Waiting on the calipers and discs to arrive!!

 

Well last night I got the DIY4x.com brackets on the truck. Thanks again to the help of Brigham (tools, beer drinking) and the generous donation of the brackets from DIY4X. Just for reference these are Eldorado calipers, 3/4ton front discs. I still have to make all the lines.
I also got the Detroit Locker in. Looks like we may have a working rear axle again soon.
Couple of quick pics for fun.

 

Nice bikes in the back ground.

 

Thanks man. I have a 2007 R1 for me and a I bought a classic 1987 FZ600 for the girl.

 

So I was cruising through Craigslist Saturday and found a crew cab being parted out. There was not much to it but I needed a set of the door sills to install the new charcoal grey carpet I bought for the truck.
The crew cab had a full headliner board and trim so I picked those out of it too for just a few bucks.
I bought some "microsuede" in charcoal to redue the headliner. Might do all the trim and doors in it too. (not sure yet).

Anyway here is a picture of the before and after of the headliner work. Sorry for the bad camera phone pics. It is late. Just need to finish it up and install it now.

 

Looks Good. A lot better than the factory stuff.

 

whacha use to atach the new liner to the old cardboard?

 

The original headliner is a foam board. I used locktight headliner glue. (it sounded better on the can than the 3m stuff. Guess we will see)

 

yea let me know how it sticks I have my headliner falling on my head to.

 

Well, it sticks and shapes to the foam good but does not stick as tight as I would like. I think I am going to pull it back and try some of the 3M stuff tomorrow.

The Microsuede was about $13 a yard and I used about 2 yards for the headliner. (bought 4 yards so I could do the trim and doors too)

 

I made a little progress over the last couple of days.

-Have the carpet abotu 80% in.
-Have the headliner about 80% in.
-Actually have the front set of seats 1/2 bolted in.
-POR 15 on the frame to get it ready to put the bed back on.










In this picture you can see where the frame is spliced. Many people have asked me for the measurements. The frame was cut 7" from the back of the cab. The center hole on the crossmember directly behind the cut is 8.5" back. Then the tail of the frame was cut off for the last part of the bed. Hope that helps.

 

That is going to be one sharp set up when you are done.waytogo

 

Thanks man. I hope it turns out well.

 

I got a little work on the truck today. Mostly got the garage cleaned out in the nice weather so I have a clean place to work on it again.
Pushed it outside to clean out the garage...........I have been PUSHING this truck around for nearly a year now........I will be sooo excited when I can just turn the key and drive it back and forth.

 

remind me again. Why was the frame cut? The headliner looks awsome. Is it staying up well?