What did you do to your deuce this week?

New west coast mirrors, upper stone guard and a driver's spring seat. Weather was awesome this afternoon so I did the logical thing and went for a trail ride.

Replaced the turn signal flasher unit and added a snorkel.

Test fit the 395s and MRAP wheels today. MV Parts adapters worked great!

Got the A/C & radio working, still got some work to do in hiding the wires and getting two more hoses for the A/C to run them on the side.

Amazon.com: Car Heater, 12V 50W Fast Heating Defroster Demister 3 Hole Portable Automobile Windshield Defrost Defogger De Icers for Auto Car Vehicle Truck : Electronics I'm thinking of going with this for a heater, I don't really need it for a heater but more as something to just keep the windows defrosted, it really doesn't get that cold here

Found the transfer case and transmission under the dirt and grossness from who knows how long, more importantly got to be soldier B while the ol lady whooped my bee hind as soldier A. First of my many projects she's taken interest in. Couldn't do it without you guys, huge thank you.

I made a little more progress on my bobber project. I reconnected the glad hands and rear taillight wiring and it all works! I was off work all last week so that’s when the conversion started. Rebuilt the rear brakes while flipping the hubs and rebuilt the parking brake while the bed was off. Still waiting on the rear driveshaft but I was able to verify the air shift works perfectly so it’s currently front wheel drive. Let me tell you, you don’t realize how big a 395 is until you have to swap 4 of them from one set of wheels to the other and then put them on the truck.

DutchmanZ said:

I made a little more progress on my bobber project. I reconnected the glad hands and rear taillight wiring and it all works! I was off work all last week so that’s when the conversion started. Rebuilt the rear brakes while flipping the hubs and rebuilt the parking brake while the bed was off. Still waiting on the rear driveshaft but I was able to verify the air shift works perfectly so it’s currently front wheel drive. Let me tell you, you don’t realize how big a 395 is until you have to swap 4 of them from one set of wheels to the other and then put them on the truck.

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Lookin Good!

Yessir, hustling a set of 395's will work you just a bit. At my age, I do one then go take a sit down break - then go at it again - sometimes a day later.

Mullaney said:

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Lookin Good!

Yessir, hustling a set of 395's will work you just a bit. At my age, I do one then go take a sit down break - then go at it again - sometimes a day later.

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Thanks! I’m loving it so far. Hopefully it drives like I think it will. I did 4 tires in about 3 hours but I had some younger help and a forklift otherwise they would still not be done. I was struggling to stand it up off the floor! They still have the beadlock /runflats but at least the wheels are aluminum. The wheels they were on had the CTIS valve and the tan ones didn’t.

Sanded some panels down, hitting the rust again and buffing the gouges tomorrow, then paint. Gotta love rain days

Learned a good one today about my LDS-465-A1. Ever since I bought this truck it has idled rough and smoked excessively, even at idle. Attempting to adjust the fuel pump did not help. Last night a friend found the manifold flame heater dripping diesel on the hot side of my turbo. Since then I have terminated both the feed and return fuel lines as well as blocked off the high pressure feed line to the fuel aspirator in the intake manifold. Suprise suprise.....no more excessive smoke or rough idling. The manifold flame heater was leaking raw diesel into my intake manifold. With no boost it was draining back into my turbo. When running it was going into the cylinders as a liquid, thus creating a knocking sound. So what sounded like a death rattle turned out to be a minor fix........

The green is a bit lighter than I'd like, but all in all for a little rattle can and time, fantastic coverage. We'll see how it looks after clear coat.