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My weekend started out by swapping my GM-3 Turbo to the GM-8 Turbo. Then spent the next day hooking up my home made manual vacuum boost controller, works great and looks factory ish. Its fully adjustable. Replaced the vacuum pump after discovered that at idle I only have 3 inches. Also put a...

My truck has 37s and a 6.5 Turbo. I get 14.8 MPG with about 1500 lbs of wood and gear.

I taped into the driver side head where the dummy light is and my gauge is plumbed there as well. The hose going to the Turbo isn't very big and the fitting one the Turbo is smaller yet. I guess time will tell. Thanks for the input. I had a 350sb with 200k on it and near the end it needed 15-40...

Ok I did a quick search and didn't find anything that jumped out and answered my question so here goes. I have a 6.2 with a 6.5 turbo swap. What oil pressure should I see? I'm running at idle 15-20 psi and at speed around 40 maybe more.... paying more attention to the road and not the gauges. I...

Yea the winter front is on my wish list. Its not at the top cus I don't drive my truck in the winter. Ill get one maybe next year I know theyre not to expensive, just need to take the time and order one up. The cardboard was a cheap experiment. I have the whole front covered and the truck will...

I didn't do the ir check, I have one at work I should bring that home. I didn't think of that, good call. I did the hand test. One hand on the radiator hose, not super hot but hotish.

Islandguydon I'm assuming the nice truck was for me, thank you. I would love to get all the Michigan guys together for a u.p. run or something. Anyway Thanks again.

I did a flush and the thermostat wasn't cheap but maybe I didn't spend enough. Thanks for the advice. I really don't wanna take it all apart cus I just did it and I kills me to do stuff over and over. Maybe next weekend I'm camping this weekend so the cardboard in front of radiator with have to...

4 or 5 foot no I can't say that I have been that deep. I did run threw a pond that was 3.5 feet or so and the truck did fine till I got stuck and my friend told me to shut it down. Not thinking I did.... thus water went up the exhaust and locked the motor up(350sbc). Now when you say 4 foot, is...

Ok here is the problem, my truck will not warm up to an operating temp I'd like to see. I bought the truck drove it for two weeks found it didn't get very warm like 130 deg. So to fix the problem I purchased a hockey Puck thermostat, 195 if I remember correctly. It seemed. To warm up more in 80...

To add to this. The truck in the video looks as though it has a lift. The exhaust side for fording isn't a big issue as long as the truck is running. I have to say I wouldn't recommend do that unless necessary, that's just me.

I was going to mount some under the bed passenger side. The muffler will go there I think.

To stick to the topic though I've thought that setting a truck up to run a log splitter would be useful but first the winches.

If you wanna put a snow blower on a truck you'd be better off putting a small engine in the bed ie a SBC or six cylinder motor. I've looked at mounting a blower on a truck I have but it comes down to money. A Guy in town put a blower on his truck and has a SBC in the bed to power the unit...

I'm currently looking for a 205 so I can put a hydraulic pump on it and run hydraulic winches front and rear.

Yes you could do that. I just put the two in the front battery tray and it worked out nice so.... I try for a stock as possible, even though it has a Turbo and lift...... ok stock ish haha.

Yea the battery over the wheel well gets in the way. I put two civi truck batteries in the front battery tray.

Good morning all. I do have some photos but nothing that would really help I think. I kinda new at documenting projects. I'm working on it. As for details, I just kept in eye on Craigslist. Found a Guy selling the parts I needed and I found myself buy the whole engine cus the Guy didn't know...

I did the 6.5 Turbo swap for 600 bucks including auto meter gages IP and short injectors.

I didn't realize how hard it is to find a 1028 that isn't beat up. Which makes me all the more thankful for my truck. Nice trucks gentlemen, they all look good.