WiscoF100
Red Skull Member
I had reached another burn out phase in the build and redirected my time effort and money towards my garage and the race car which overall didn’t exactly make progress but built long term equity. The following pictures are random checklist stuff that spread out over a few month.
Not much to document on the rear bumper. It’s AMD and not knowing any better I’d say it’s a decent bumper. Bumper brackets are hard to come by for these trucks. I said F it and bought the cheapest wrong application brackets I could find on eBay. They’re F250 or something. They’re close but had enough meat I could trim and drill my own holes. It worked well enough.
Before the engine even had oil I had a leaky pan. Just the assembly goo was finding its way out. How did this happen? I had some air head moment where I uprighted the engine before/during the pan install and I tainted the gasket maker. I also over torqued the bolts and deflected the timing cover. So anyways another perk of building a big ghey truck land truck is you can remove the pan without any interference.
I refreshed the C6 pan while I was there. Turns out it had warped flanges from some monkey cranking on the bolts.
The steering rez mount was another procrastinated item. I get all hung up because I want to be creative like Morgan Clarke. So I end up with dimple die poo bracket.
Bracket was metal shaped 1 piece from the 2 cereal box templates complete with poo tig welds.
Made a quick and dirty steering wheel puller. This wheel looked like a dog chewed on it because it was stored upright on a floor and pushed around. It’s replaced with a more okayish stock wheel. But my parts/design adhd suddenly wanted a previous gen 3 spoke wheel. I’m still in the parts hoarding phase for that build.
The next update will be where my motivation began to match the momentum of the seasons leaving winter behind and getting off the porch crossing off so many neglected tasks to finish this build.
Not much to document on the rear bumper. It’s AMD and not knowing any better I’d say it’s a decent bumper. Bumper brackets are hard to come by for these trucks. I said F it and bought the cheapest wrong application brackets I could find on eBay. They’re F250 or something. They’re close but had enough meat I could trim and drill my own holes. It worked well enough.
Before the engine even had oil I had a leaky pan. Just the assembly goo was finding its way out. How did this happen? I had some air head moment where I uprighted the engine before/during the pan install and I tainted the gasket maker. I also over torqued the bolts and deflected the timing cover. So anyways another perk of building a big ghey truck land truck is you can remove the pan without any interference.
I refreshed the C6 pan while I was there. Turns out it had warped flanges from some monkey cranking on the bolts.
The steering rez mount was another procrastinated item. I get all hung up because I want to be creative like Morgan Clarke. So I end up with dimple die poo bracket.
Bracket was metal shaped 1 piece from the 2 cereal box templates complete with poo tig welds.
Made a quick and dirty steering wheel puller. This wheel looked like a dog chewed on it because it was stored upright on a floor and pushed around. It’s replaced with a more okayish stock wheel. But my parts/design adhd suddenly wanted a previous gen 3 spoke wheel. I’m still in the parts hoarding phase for that build.
The next update will be where my motivation began to match the momentum of the seasons leaving winter behind and getting off the porch crossing off so many neglected tasks to finish this build.
