Recent content by spink7124

You tube video, just got the tube doors early this summer:

I have had the herculiner brand on my floors and rear bumper for more than a year and it has held up great. I haven't needed to touch it up any but I did do really good prep work. It has faded a bit and started to be a bit chalky looking but most DIY bedliners as well as line-x seem to do the...

I hear what you are saying, and I realize how my post came across sounding. At least the problem here is actually having choices when it comes to choosing parts making it easier and easier to modify our trucks. I apologize, to each his own. I second the rivets, I am currently at 72 removed so...

Dude, I don't know what your deal is pimpin the Virgina 4x4 stuff, but it completely unfair to say that he makes "Cadillac" parts and DIY's stuff is of less quality. I have several DIY parts on my truck and they are super beefy and of awesome quality. How do waterjet cut parts improve quality...

'84 1008, 4.56 gears, 39.5" tires, gets right around high 13's around town.

Meeting up with Jsbrewster1 the other day was awesome. It was great to meet someone who is local with interest in CUCV's as well. For those of you who are interested more pictures of my truck can be found in this thread, as well as more detailed info about my lift...

Couple more questions while I'm at it, What about the CDR valve, did you change it per the turbo parts, did the turbo manifold have provisions to hook it up? On your exhaust exit from the turbo, did you route it outside the frame or did you have enough room to keep it inside the frame, any...

TFE, Like many others on this board, I am slowly amassing parts for my 6.5 turbo swap and I also have a question. After browsing through some of the posts on the diesel page, some guys said that the clearance between the turbo and the injector lines is a tight fit. Some possible fixes for this...

Allreveup- I"ve actually delt with Lee before, I have one of his boxes on my Trans-Am, and he is a great company to deal with. dieselpony- I Had some slight clearance issues with my crossover and stock crossmember; I trimmed a small piece off and that fixed the issue 99% of the time. That us...

Yeah, hydro assist is definitely in the cards. It actually doesn't get too bound up until you get into big rocks, but when its bound up, it's really bound up. I've been weighing my options, and I've almost decided on ordering a kit from trail gear; it seems like nice middle of the road stuff...

Yep, Forgot to add that I actually had to put a pie cut on the inside flange on each inner fender to get them to bend back far enough. I the re-drilled a hole to allow them to bolt to a flange on the body. They are basically wedged up against the fire wall. Forgot to mention, my wheels are...

More pics! Just some shots without it flexed up so you can see how it sits and get a better idea of how the fenders are trimmed. Also check out my rear bumper, I took 6" out of the middle and 3" out of the bottom of each end to taper it up and make it look a little cleaner. Lastly, I included...

Ask and ye shall receive, Everyone likes pics anyways, and the first ones are the requested measurements; the first being from the ground to the top of the hood. I have custom bumpstops in the front so that measurement is from the top of the spring pad on the axle to the bottom of the frame...

I am using the 7.25" shackles in the front and the 6" shackles in the rear. The reason that I used the DIY4X kit was that if you use the stock hangers and move them around it moves the wheels really far forward and in my opinion it makes fender trimming difficult to make look right. The DIY kit...

In the front I used 52" rear springs for a 1/2 ton chevy truck; I bought new ones from 1973 - 1987 Chevy / GMC 1/2 Ton Rear Leaf Springs. I used hangers and shackles from DIY4X. I cut down the overloads so they would give me lift without any additional stiffness and I also ended up adding an...