Gunfreak25
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See where you get your dashing good looks from there Dave. Tell Crazy Darrell I look forward to meeting him someday.
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I sure could use one of them hard tops for my truck! Why is all the good stuff 1674 miles away!! And those M152s!!! I shall cry myself to sleep..
let these guys do the truck without the dump bed.
The snow hit Edmonton today with 5" in the Whitecourt area just 100 miles north.
I have long since given up on deadlines. Which ever truck is ready for the parade will be in it. I have no qualms about red tagging a unit.Stan man, what was your deadline again?
Gee Stan, I wish you would have posted this earlier this summer. I probably would have put more that 4 miles on my truck this summer in 100' trips.you CAN plumb an inline pump, but you MUST replace the fuel pick up foot.
It has got a built-in pressure relase passage, which will not allow an external unit to function for more than 200 Meters! Don't ask how I know..
If you are planning to powder coat over paint, you are going to have to use a paint that conducts electricity for the powder coat to properly adhere. My reccomendation would be to use a weld through primer and tint the primer to achieve your desired color (or close to it). Since you are most likely going to be dealing with a flat or low gloss tone, the primer may be sufficient for your base. Unless you know about some sort of weld through paint that I have never heard of (possible). The reasoning behind the conductivity feature being required it that powder coat achieves it's initial bond via a ground attached to the material, this "pulls" the powder coat into all the little pores in the metal and holds it there while baked on for the finished product.The desire to dedicate the build took it's first step today and a rusty ole' valvecover was dropped off at a local powdercoating shop today.
The OD will go on and we will hand stencil some names of a few good men over the OD with white paint. Once complete a clear-coat will be powdered over the names to protect them for a few centuries. A sample piece was picked up today so we're going to try a few different paints then go through the clearing process.
If anyone has had experience with paint in a powder-coat/ clear-coat process, your in-put might save some steps.
The snow hit Edmonton today with 5" in the Whitecourt area just 100 miles north.
California never looked so good.
Stan, can you hustle up a name and possibly a part number for the pump that worked for you please.Side note:
If your in tank fuel pump on the M135 ever goes out, buy the rebuild kit .... if you can find it!
Otherwise, you CAN plumb an inline pump, but you MUST replace the fuel pick up foot.
It has got a built-in pressure relase passage, which will not allow an external unit to function for more than 200 Meters! Don't ask how I know.
If our wrench basher was not in the crew, this would have cost $1,200 just to figure out!
The hard to get pump kit was selling for $75 on E-Pay.
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