Recent content by noodlehead333

Thanks. I keep working at it and it's slowly (I repeat SLOWLY) progressing. Even if I can only sand down a small part or clean off something, I don't miss more than a day or two. I just keep jumping around about what I want to do first. But I love every minute I work on any of it...

Yet another argument for pulling all the applicable parts from one truck. I've got to keep looking though. Lately the M1031s are going for 2k to 3k. I'd be willing to pay that but with transport costs (I am going to go pick it up) I'd be looking at 4k. That's a little too rich for my blood...

Yeah I am making almost weekly trips to the local yards. I can't find salvageable 4x4's. It seems like anyone with a junkable (is that even a word?) 4x4 rips it apart and reuses the parts himself/herself or sells the parts on Craigslist and wants $600 or more per axle. At least around here...

I want to make my M-37 highway capable. Even with 39 in tires and 4.89 gears it would be doing close to 3k at 65 mph. NOT GOOD for a diesel engine. For that reason, I'm going to try to find a 3.73 or 4.10 ratio set of axles. I also want the NP205 primarily because of parts availability...

Yeah. Every time I schedule time to work on my M37 my wife comes up with something I "need to do". Not because she doesn't want me to work on it but because she thinks I might find SOMETHING ELSE TO BUY. :roll:

Boy, you aren't kidding!! I always find the parts at EXACTLY the time when we have "higher priorities". I've endured the wrath of my wife on more than one occasion. But it's never stopped me from looking. And it never will. As for swapping the body to the Chevy frame, I want to keep as much...

Yeah, my M37 is fun to drive around town and down the trails but doesn't have any real power. It's gonna come down to whether I can get an M1031 for relatively cheap (both cost of the truck itself and within a reasonable distance to me). :driver:

I'm contemplating buying a m1031 on GL and transplanting the NP205, front axle, and rear axles to my M-37/4BT/NV4500 project. Any advice or warnings? From measurements at the local u-pull-it this will widen the track width. I may or may not widen out the fenders depending on how it looks...

Finally I finally got approval. I'll pick up my compressor next Wednesday.

About $3k over the space of 4 years. But that's about to jump a bit (hopefully) in the next few months as my workshop is nearing completion and I plan on "parting up" for a few projects. Wish me luck! :-D

My EUC was submitted to Battle Creek on 3 Sept. Still waiting. Driving me nuts. It's not a local pickup (the compressor is at Hooks, TX; I live in Panama City FL.) :-x

Sorry traditionalists Actually, I am going to repaint her orange, black, and blue (not much blue but it will be in select spots.) I fell in love with the orange when I bought her and decided right then and there that Punkin would be kept primarily orange. I'm still working on some sketches of...

Guys - I didn't mean to imply that an M-37 is a "flat fender". I was talking about having seen a civilian Power Wagon when I was 13 that the guy referred to as a "flat fender" Dodge. I couldn't even tell you what year that thing was. But that was the beginning of the obsession that took 23...

I am looking for a sandblaster and came across this. Too far for me to go but may be good for someone closer. Clemco Sand Blaster

I hope so. I've seen his site and have read alot of the threads he has contributed to on here and on other sites. I can use all the help I can get.