Truck Build - DD, Tow Rig and play!

You should be proud of that truck. Alot of time and effort. I hope you are writing down what parts go where, I could just see you at an auto parts store getting parts,haha. The sales guy would hate you. Keep the pics coming, that thing is a beast.
 
one day i will have mad fab skills and i can build whatever i want! haha

If you went to a school to learn this where did you go?
 
On your new air intake what about water? Not saying your going to go into a river or anything but if someone hits a puddle infront of u its going straight into that hole.
 
cummin try me said:
:drool1: This build is awesome man, this is going to be one of the stoutest pickup tow rigs I have ever seen. The machine and fab work is excellent!
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Brian Lent said:
You should be proud of that truck. Alot of time and effort. I hope you are writing down what parts go where, I could just see you at an auto parts store getting parts,haha. The sales guy would hate you. Keep the pics coming, that thing is a beast.
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blkram said:
You are the man for sure, sweet work I wish I had your skills:Cheer:
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9712valve said:
nice fab work, your truck is coming out great!
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99f3504x4 said:
Dude, your truck is fookin awesome. Fab work is top notch. Keep it up.
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Thanks for all the complements guys! :thankyou2: you guys rock!
 
YOUNG GUNS15 said:
one day i will have mad fab skills and i can build whatever i want! haha

If you went to a school to learn this where did you go?
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thanks man, took some machining and auto shop classes in high school, then diesel at the Davis applied tech college. but mainly just doin it. my buddies and i have been building jeeps and rock crawlers for the last 12 years and have learned a lot doin that.

97 D-Tec said:
On your new air intake what about water? Not saying your going to go into a river or anything but if someone hits a puddle infront of u its going straight into that hole.
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the hole does not go right in to the turbo, just in to the engine compartment right below the air filter. i'm thinking about building a box around the air filter with a hole in the bottom that hooks to the hole in the bumper but even if i did that i still dont think that any watter would make it in the hole and up in to the air box and then up in to the air filter. and i guess if it does it would be my cheap water injection! LOL
 
so i havent done a lot of work on the front axle latley. done some mesuring and stuff. trying to figure how wide to make everything. but i did get another truck on my days off. :rockwoot: i mean it was such a sweet deal that out of shear principal i just had to get it! its a '97 12v auto. think i'm going to pull all the parts i need to p-pump my truck and prolly some other odds and ends then part out the rest. :rockwoot:
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awesome, you've got some amazing skills, now i've got a question, are these machines at work or in your own shop at home? it's great to have access to those machines
 
wannabecummins said:
awesome, you've got some amazing skills, now i've got a question, are these machines at work or in your own shop at home? it's great to have access to those machines
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Thanks man, most are at my friends shop.

Smokinrebel said:
I am blown away by all that work. Awesome job!
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thanks!

SPEAKSUP said:
Bump any work on it lately?
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:doh: not as much as i would have liked, but a few things. thanks for the bump, i'll get some updates and pics posted up.
 
so this is how my truck is sitting right now. a broken axle u-joint, its been goin for a while, i've just been lazy about changin it. prolly because i'm workin on building a new front axle for it and dont want to put money in to the old one. and then last week i sold the ats intake off if it. a friend wanted to buy it and i'm planin on p-pump like next month, and i just havent put the stock one back on.

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i'm going to try to pick up where i left off last which i think is the battery tray. I moved my passenger side battery to the back of the engine compartment and put my air filter in the front. i still havent built a box around my air cleaner to get air just from the bumper hole but that might be changing anyways. i built the tray out of stainless steel and then welded it in to my fender well. i cut the fender well so the tray would sit a little lower in there. maybe like 2" lower. i just wanted to keep it as far from my hood as i can. with the tray welded in i can still get all the turbos and piping out no prob with out even pullin the battery. I was a little worried about that when i got it done. made some longer cables and its worked out pretty well. i still want to pull the whole fender off some time and weld the whole tray in. right now its only welded where i could get it from the top.

new air intake tube made
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this is the cut in the wheel well, the battery tray sits in there like a little shelf and drops it about 2".
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test fit of the battery
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set in tray and weld
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6 months later still holding up
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so i did some turbo swapin also. my h1c and hx35, which ever one i was running, were both getting pretty tired. went in to High Tech Turbo to get a rebuild kit and ended up changin the 35 to a 35/40. HTT did and awesome job. the turbo looked amazing and they really know what they are talkin about. it made a pretty big difference as well. spools really nice. so right now i'm running a HX35/40 and a BHT3B.

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