91 7.3 IDI Build Thread

[silver_bullet]

moving forward

Well, over the long weeked, while Allen (aka-late 99 psd) was home from school, Allen, Ben,and I installed the drive line, but not whithout having to do some detail welding and grinding on flywheel (damaged teeth), trans bolted right up, tranfer cased bolted right up, drive lines bolted right up. Only thing that didnt line up was the transmission cross member, which had to be move 1.1/4" to the rear. Even the transmission mount off the old C-6 bolted right to the zf-5.
Now comes the tedious task of slowly wiring the newer cab and harness off a gasser to work with older truck components. We had to completed rebuild a clutch pedal assembly from a 1988-90 cab to fit the 1995 auto cab. Exhaust up pipe and down pipe from the turbo will be interesting.......... Wev'e decided to give the truck a 1" body lift to help in routing 3" up and down turbo pipes.

 

[biggin92]

SWEET keep up the good work

 

[Late_99_psd]

Workin' on making a new intake to get rid of the banks box

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[flareside_thun]

What is the Teepee thing for?

 

[Late_99_psd]

I guess its hard to picture, but its gonna be an intake tophat to go from the turbo to the intake plenumn.

 

[silver_bullet]

Well, wer'e getting this truck back together, slowly but surely. It's screaming and kicking all the way too.lol You need a lot of patience to install a 95 cab and bed onto a 85 frame.

 

[Late_99_psd]

 

[austin]

Nice build; you're making pretty nice progress!

 

[88beast]

is that a semi floater rear?
and i cant wait to see more of the intake hat im gonna build one for my truck any chance you can tell me where to get that tubing i cant find anything 5.125 id or even 5.25

 

[hesutton]

Coming along great. I can't wait to see it finished! I hope to see it at the Rally. Keep plugging along, you'll get everything checked off the list before too long and will really ge to enjoy that rig!

Heath

 

[onus]

Where did you get the new metal insert / piston things for the wheel cylinders. I've been trying to find new ones.

 

[Late_99_psd]

is that a semi floater rear?
and i cant wait to see more of the intake hat im gonna build one for my truck any chance you can tell me where to get that tubing i cant find anything 5.125 id or even 5.25

No its full floating.

I took a piece of 5" exhaust tubing and cut it to make it bigger around and then I'm gonna weld it up at the right diameter.

I haven't got any further on it because I'm 500 miles away from the truck and don't wnat to have it the wrong shape



I think were gonna need bigger tires

 

[Late_99_psd]

Alright folks, we are now mobile under our own power

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[Late_99_psd]

Sorry guys, haven't added to the thread for a while but we made alot of progress in the fact that it is on the road now

Painting the new fenders

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New fenders on the truck

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I'm a little proud of this, but I made a whole new up-pipe setup

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Here is the intake that we made

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Getting the front end put together

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My custom dual battery setup I made

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Here you can see the custom intake I made up using a Napa 6637 filter

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Intake tophat all done

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Carpet going in

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[Late_99_psd]

Did you know you can only post 15 pictures in one post

Got 'er washed up and ready to hit the road for the first time

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Doin work son!

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Now we need to finish the pinstriping and the rubber bumpers.