Pretty much finished - Shakedown ride 2007

[readyman]

Well, after a year and a half in the garage we finally took the truck out for a shakedown ride around the neighborhood. Rolled it out to fire her up and...

Batteries were completely dead and wouldn't hold a charge, even after trickle charging all that time. End of Life I guess. So we jumped it, started up in two seconds.

Man... new vinyl top and a fresh coat of CARC. Looked real nice for the first time in the light of day.

Newly installed Air-O-Matic really makes all the difference in the world.

Some pic's. In backwards order.

 

[maddawg308]

WOW! That truck looks great! I like the air intake with the 90 degree bend. The cargo cover actually looks better with the shorter bows - the lines just seem better to me...

 

[Jimmy]

It looks brand new! Good job. By the way, how do you have your top set up for the ring mount access?

 

[readyman]

maddawg308, I'd been watching too many of those custom chopper shows on tv and got creative welding up the intake, but it was to be able to brace it to the exhaust pipe bracket.

Jimmy, Robo-Sawzall Just kidding.
Looking into either a marine type deck hatch or the Hummer turret hatch. Soundproofed the cab interior(which was of no use anyway) so I'm still thinking about it.

 

[CanonNinja]

damn these threads!


I retract my statements I make about starting over with my truck.... everything I see these threads, I get a tingly feeling... crap, I need to hurry up and find my gun ring so I can start repainting this truck and fixing my oopsies...



Someone hug me



Oh, truck looks absolutely SICK! I love it!

 

[No.2Diesel]

I like your license plate surround. I hope you don't get a ticket. Is that a Sigtronic headset your wearing or just blue earmuffs? Intake is cool as well as the black wheels.

 

[readyman]

No2Diesel, Powercomm wireless headsets, but they pick up sounds around us too. Ebay $50-$75 as they're obsolete now. Chris heard a cotterpin drop from the gun ring with his headset on and the truck running!

 

[M1075]

Wow, looks fantastic. The pics are great. Much better than seeing

 

[wreckerman893]

That truck is the "nun's buns"
My "green iron fever" just went up about ten degrees.

MUST HAVE BIG GREEN TRUCK.

 

[steelsoldiers]

Great work! It looks beautiful and that gun ring says, "Stay the heck outa my way!" I really need one on my truck too. Congrats!!

 

[pa.rich]

Good job!

 

[PWM]

WOW! I have seen new trucks that didn’t look that good. I really like the intake, and the cut down cargo top makes it look like a race car.

Pete

 

[clinto]

That looks outstanding!!!

You've raised the bar............

 

[OD_Coyote]

Your truck is a work of art!!!
I really like the air intake setup...Nice job

 

[ida34]

I have seen the truck close up and the attention to detail is great. Glad to see you got it out and about. Nice work. I have not forgotten the M2 cart stops. I just have not found them again yet.

Chuck

 

[readyman]

Chuck,
Thanks, no rush on those, whenever you find em.

Oh yeah I forgot. We spent the next morning chasing down gremlins in the gauges, very, very, low readings in all the gauges. Only to realize(duh) the stone dead batteries were causing the low readings.

 

[Armada]

Beautiful! Well done and great attention to detail! I've got to go cover mine up after seeing yours.....

 

[Recovry4x4]

Beautiful truck and I love the lowered lid. Wished I could find powercoms for that price. Litecoms go cheap but the cheapest powercoms I've found were a few hundred each.

 

[WillWagner]

Did you take it down to the frame and start over? I looks great, come do mine!

 

[emmado22]

Readyman,

Can you post some close up pics of the antenna mount.. Im trying to decide where to mount mine....