Thz71's M1008

[CUCVLOVER]

That's a nice drive line.

As for the price. I know that to the buyer it seems like a lot but there is a lot to consider. You have the cost of the materials, the cost of the time the employees had in it and a profit margin to keep the lights open.
Since I have grown up in a welding and machining business I see both sides of it. It's basically anything that you can buy you have to look at it like this. This is the price (X), then you have the item you have think about something, could you make it for that cost.

 

[thz71]

For sure that's not pocket change, and it's not cheap:

- But that does look to be some pretty detailed machining there.

So it might be fair market cost, but I know what you mean, it always hurts to shell out three (or more figure) cash.

That's a nice drive line.

As for the price. I know that to the buyer it seems like a lot but there is a lot to consider. You have the cost of the materials, the cost of the time the employees had in it and a profit margin to keep the lights open.
Since I have grown up in a welding and machining business I see both sides of it. It's basically anything that you can buy you have to look at it like this. This is the price (X), then you have the item you have think about something, could you make it for that cost.

Oh yah the price is fair imo. they didn't mark up much on the parts and it's really nice and heavy. I picked out all the parts myself, I just don't have a welder good enough yet or way to balance it. I could have just taken my stock driveshaft and had them lengthen it but I only wanted to spend this money once.

 

[thz71]

Stuck tight

Ram to the rescue

Getting the 95 out of the garage

 

[Another Ahab]

Stuck tight

"Let's see; turn a hard right at the snow bank..."

Um. There HAS to be a story here. Will you share it!?

 

[Another Ahab]

PS:

Iowa sure is FLAT country. Wow.

That's a special kind of pretty.

 

[thz71]

"Let's see; turn a hard right at the snow bank..."

Um. There HAS to be a story here. Will you share it!?

Yah I was drifting around the yard and lost it and then tries to keep going haha. You can kinda see the tracks behind me

PS:

Iowa sure is FLAT country. Wow.

That's a special kind of pretty.

No sure if serious haha

 

[Another Ahab]

No, absolutely I AM serious about how pretty it is. Really; a special kind of pretty.

I'm a fan of Willa Cather and her writing. Nobody in the world has ever written more eloquently about the beauty of that particular landscape (or any landscapes for that matter), as she has.

 

[thz71]

I'm beyond happy with how this truck works now.

 

[Another Ahab]

I'm beyond happy with how this truck works now.

An unusual series of photos:

- Have you considered having that truck neutered?

 

[thz71]

An unusual series of photos:

- Have you considered having that truck neutered?


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I'm lost here haha

 

[Another Ahab]

I'm lost here haha

Well, you're right; I wasn't totally clear:

 

[thz71]

Well, you're right; I wasn't totally clear:

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Gotcha! Lol sorry bout that

 

[thz71]

led bar and pods mounted on the front. Cut up the stock turns to mount the pods. I'm going to do the turns different.

painted my front reciever

Pulled kingpin springs engine belts and rear diff vents. Gona get new belts keep the old as spares. Get washers for the top of the springs and get longer diff vents.

Also every bit of paint and finish on my nice engine is destroyed because of battery acid that's always nice.

 

[thz71]

Death wobble fix? I hope so.

bent steering stabilizer

need a new "bolt"

So close

Had to do some trimming to get the stock hitch to fit around the shackle flip

rusty

less rusty

Black

new serp belts. Old ones in the cab for possible trail fixes

 

[thz71]

gona try and help this floor out before memorial day weekend

started trying to get all my lighting figured out, huge mess

Pulled this out. No clue what it is

dead end wires

if I had more time before memorial day I'd tear every wire out of the **** thing and go to bare essentials.
Straightened the bed back out with the help of a cummins

put the stock hitch back on the rear for a tow/push/winch point

2nd battery mount mocked up

Had to have the bolts that came with it extended, and ordered an isolator

 

[thz71]

Put my new shocks on and promptly maxed them out. So that sucks

batt box mounted. Had to cut it some after this pic so the hood would shut

(Edit) and now I just realized that if I had to cut the battery mount the hood still won't close when I put a battery in it lol wow.



Fixed my weather stripping fixed my tach fixed my voltmeter. Moved the batt mount to the opposite side.

wired it up

 

[thz71]

Had to trim the hood structure

then cleared the bed off

the list for memorial day is getting pretty short.
Hi lift mounted

pre filter installed

rear diff vent extented to the bottom of the bed. Only way it gets water in it is if my feet are under water In the cab. That's how I'll know I need to drain the rear diff.

Pass front shock installed even though like I said in the last post the drivers is acting like a bump stop. Because tbh I quite like that idea I'd rather replace shocks than mangled leaf springs

rear lighting installed

 

[thz71]

wired up

floor has some problems that I half ass fixed last summer with heat ducting pulled all that junk out

used my toolbox from a rolled parts truck

getting there

better than nothing

 

[Another Ahab]

A "rolled parts truck"!? I hope nobody got hurt, but is there a good story there?

 

[thz71]

A "rolled parts truck"!? I hope nobody got hurt, but is there a good story there?

He was fine when I went and bought it anyway haha. I buy and part out trucks mostly only 88-98 chevys I've done around 40.