On the way home today from the hanger whereI get most of my big projects done the Gerbil fell off the wheel in sheer extacy. I could hear myself think, and my butt was planted in a comfortable seat. So here's what we got done today. There is now a 4" Magnaflow exhaust on the stack, and a Ford Aerostar back seat as my front seat. So much better than what was in there. It took a few hours but it was so worth the time. I reused the stock clamp so I can remove the exhaust any time I need too. I just welded it on a bit lower than stock. And I used 8 of the holes with recepticals in the floor already for the mounts. I'll take it out in a couple of days and clean up the welds and paint it. I'll also seal up the front of the square tube I used for the base to get the height where I wanted it. It is about 2 inches lower than my stock sorta sprung seat. My spring seat would only go down about 1.5 inches.
I plan on recovering the seat in desert digital MARPAT to match the paint that I am going to apply. I'm going to paint it MARPAT digital to match my F350 and my cammies.
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1967 m35a2 whistler "crossfire"
In Memory Of CPL Kenny "CrossFire" Cross 1/23 Inf 3-2 Sect Tomahawks KIA Aug 27th 2006. 1968 m103a3w/shelter"the man cave"
Man, you must be some painting wizard to do the digital comouflage on your truck! I can't begin to image the pain of either laying and stencilling, or painting that design on something as large as a deuce or pickup truck. As yet, I have not seen too many military trucks done in digital, mostly just solid 686A tan or woodland green coming out of Red River Army Depot.... I am still trying to figure out how, on a large item like a truck, the square edged camouflage works better then the curved line camouflage patterns. It is generally said that there are few straight lines in nature (outside of maybe the New Mexico or Arizona deserts......)?
There are a few done in digital and we just got the design approved by TACOM for DOD vehicle application. It takes about 4 days to do a HMMWV or a similar sized rig. The Deuce will take a little longer. And actually in a desert environment the digital breaks up the outline pretty well and does a good job of masking the rig. I like both types of camo but since the digital is helping to pay the bills, that's the way I'm going.
I plan on recovering the seat in desert digital MARPAT to match the paint that I am going to apply. I'm going to paint it MARPAT digital to match my F350 and my cammies.
Great idea, that looks good on the f350. Where do you get the digital seat cover material or how are you going to do that?
Last edited by roscoe; 02-01-2010 at 23:28.
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Gerbil Fell Off the Wheel(seat/muffler mods)
