Babe the Blue Ox: progress thread

[GENIUSLOERTS]

Get the biggest washers you can find or make some plates out of flat stock mine are 1/8" steel plate that are about 4"x4"
The seats the,selves have a pretty large surface area that sits on the floor pan. No factory holes line up so you will have to do some aligning to get things square.

 

[whiteboyslo]

Here is where my Alcoas are starting off at

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Mine started out that rough. A bit of aircraft paint remover, some steel wool of various grades, and a Powerball made for some outstanding results.

Mike

 

[GENIUSLOERTS]

Yeah, I've got them stripped. I just need to spend an evening at my buddies chrome shop and use his big buffers.

 

[opusd2]

Gonna put a coat of clear on after buffing those rims out? They're gonna look nice...

 

[GENIUSLOERTS]

Undecided on the clear coat. You usually loose some luster with the clear coat. There is this powder that my budy has for Wiping down polished stuff that cleans without any scratching and it literally a 5 min once every couple weeks to keep them looking fresh. I've did a valve cover on my motorcycle back in 2008 that still looks how it did when it came off the polishing wheel

 

[junk]

Hey on your door lock swap. Did you put a fuse on the 12v wire that feeds the relays? If so how big? I have to say I didn't fuse it because I was pulling power off the door locks already and figured their fuse/circuitbreaker would protect the relays. A bad relay last night caused my door lock wiring to get really hot making me nervous that I need a fuse.

What's your thoughts? - Jeremy

 

[GENIUSLOERTS]

Relays should be fused to a 30a

 

[junk]

Excellent, Thanks that's exactly what I'm going to have to do.

Thanks
Jeremy

 

[88dually]

any updates ?

 

[GENIUSLOERTS]

No real update yet. I got the wiring for the power/heated seats finished up, so it's nice that the wife can adjust the seat now when she needs to use the truck. I've been spending most of my free time giving my shop a face lift and remodeling my dads house removing walls, carpet and linoleum and putting in bamboo wood floors and tile etc. Trying to get everything done before my sister comes in to town with her family.

Shop went from this

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to this

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[Andertusa]

No real update yet. I got the wiring for the power/heated seats finished up, so it's nice that the wife can adjust the seat now when she needs to use the truck. I've been spending most of my free time giving my shop a face lift and remodeling my dads house removing walls, carpet and linoleum and putting in bamboo wood floors and tile etc. Trying to get everything done before my sister comes in to town with her family.

Shop went from this

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to this

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Darn, your shop had 'character' and 'charm' now it's kinda 'generic', but I'm sure it's an improvement worth making-energy-efficiency, less leaks in the roof, etc.

 

[GENIUSLOERTS]

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

The Ox has made some progress

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[riotwarrior]

Very nice indeed

 

[whitehorse]

Sweet truck....those wheels cleaned up great...

 

[Waystro]

What size tires are those?