the.beard

Judging by the lengths you're going to Canada-proof that truck, that new baby might be able to drive it to high school one day. My hat's off to you, fella, and congratulations.

bannerd

So, with the baby in hand and in the cockpit, I was able to install some door seals last week. My question is the door wipers are really long! Anyone trim these or should I not do this? I think it's made like this, maybe not though. The seals are precision made(felt)

mknittle

I can't answer the question but sounds like you are breaking the baby in properly.

oliver foster

No help with the length of the seals…
But...X2 breaking in the baby properly.
I remember those nights, story time in the crew cab in the warm shop on a cold winters night….
So once she was asleep I could quietly get some work done.

bannerd

Anyone know how the side markers get installed? Should I try and thread a nut on with a washer to the plastic posts?

Angry Johnny

They use a speed nut, looks like a sheet metal self cutting nut.

MARF75

Glad you answered, I know what it looks like just didn't know proper terminology.

thrashingcows

Also called "pal nuts".

The window sweeps should not need any trimming. Are the curved up at one end? If not then you got some cheapy knock offs. The set I received from Fairfield were just straight...no curves. I didn't use those ones.

Take a gander in the sticky....there is a good write up there, with pics.

bannerd

Yeah, they're curved up at one end, I took about 1/4 off them to make them fit right. I'm guessing this won't stop the water from getting inside the door. Not a big deal, I sealed the door on the inside really well, as long as the water doesn't get into the cab and drains out through the bottom. They were seals from precision.

Back windows is in, busted the front windshield so hopefully I have some cool pictures of glass soon! Truck is looking sweet, can't wait to drive this thing again!

bannerd

Well, have all the electrical woos worked out (some what, rear needs some new wire). As you all know I cracked my windshield trying to put it in. LMC delivered my window two days ago and I got around to putting that in last night. I would say this is a two day job, you need to silicon the seal where the pinch weld slides in. I used some small expansion clamps to really hold the seal in. After 24 hours of curing start putting the window in with the bottom first. Work the corners but don't work them hard, nice and easy while putting downward pressure on the window. Use glass cleaner as a lube, eventually you'll have something like this.



All I used was the supplied window stick. Once the window is in, take the silicone window sealant and window stick. Peel the top seal and run a bead across the top of the window and down the sides. You don't have to do the bottom but you can if you want. I took my locking strip to make sure the silicon gets into the corners really well. These trucks always rust there so I'm hoping this will pro-long it.

bannerd

Also while I was at it, removed the grid relays and installed some brand new ones.

j_martin

Hey Bannerd.

Could you resize your images before you link them. I resize mine to about 640 x 480 pixels. (about 0.3 megapixels) which is plenty to see detail clearly. Your 8 megapixel pictures are resized considerably smaller, like to 1.3 mpxl to viewed anyway, and all that takes time, like about 30 - 50 seconds per image with a DSL connection.

Thanks in advance

bannerd

Well my bed is pretty much a pile of rust. 62% of the bed is okay, the rest needs major work. I decided that I didn't have the money to invest in a nice bed and will attempt to do some welding. I have panels that will be welded into the wheel arch's of the truck bed. The wheel bellies are gone.. after beating on them with a hammer and going through it.. I decided to lay the metal on tip of what was sort of there.. and start welding.





This is what I came out with.

My question to you all is.. I'm thinking about putting tiger hair(bondo hair) all over this area to sort of protect it down the road and re-enforce it even more. Or is this a dumb idea? Either that or, slap some paint on it and call it a day(after grinding it all of course .

bannerd

Hopefully that helps, I converted all my pictures to 1024x768, which should be smaller than most monitor resolutions these days.

Alec

In my experience none of those products adhere well enough to prevent moisture & salt from creeping between themselves & the steel. Some of them aren't even water impermeable. So I would NOT do that.