Fun fact, if you want to remove your calipers, but not loose the fluid, put a brake stick in to push the pedal down about an inch. This closes off the compensator ports between the master cylinder and the reservoir. think of it as putting your finger over the end of a straw and pulling it out of the glass. Holds the fluid in until you are ready to drain it or put the caliper back on.
Love the fact you’re taking something, giving it some love and having FUN with it. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don’t take it out and use it, it’s going to rust!
You are right that color is amazing! When you said treats to your dog my dog was listening and sat uo and looked at me so I had to get up and give him a treat! 😂 My dogs know the "W" word as well!
I love how nothing is sacred to you! You find a perfect early Caddie and your first instinct is not to preserve it. Your first instinct is to shred it to bits and build a drag/speed warrior. You buy a perfect, low miles truck so you can LS swap it and slam in on the pavement. You build a 55 Chevy with a Chrysler elephant! “Nothing is Sacred” should be your next Tshirt.
Bringing Joe on full time was the best decision made for the channel. I do miss Cotton and Newbern tho. I hope they are doing well and we get to see them soon.
Newbern is off doing his own channel, and it is full of vehicles that actually get done and run and stuff (sorry Finnegan, I had to go there). Seriously thought, I do miss how it all went before, but Joe seems to be right on it.
Mike speaks the truth, got the S10 because I couldn't afford a F150 or 1500 as a 20 y/o. Didn't modded it much, it was just really nice having my first brand new truck that wasn't always breaking down.
Damn these guys are haters complaining about your commercials. At least they aren't talking crap about how much better 12volt daves show is cause it makes them feel better about themselves
I lowered a 1995 2wd ext cab short box. No welding. Did a 4 inch front and a 6 inch rear. Had to cut the notch and drill holes for the brace bracket. I used a kit from DJM Suspension. Worked decently from what I remember. This was years ago.
Awesome project, love seeing the progress. Personally I'd leave it stock height and get some black NASCAR style rims with a beefy tire and go for the "muscle truck" look with it. But seeings how you are a lowered minitrucker at heart, I totally understand going this route. Can't wait to see the finished product.
These trucks went crazy. Bought my first one in 21 for my first vehicle. Paid 2000 for a decent truck, rust on frame. Small spots om the box. Otherwise, mint. Now they're selling those truck, same condition for 5k. Wild
You can tell you shot in 2 different days your wearing a different shirt on cleaning day then explaining ridetec day..... still love the show mike!!!!!!
love your show Mike! I used to think lowered vehicles were cool, but then I got tired of replacing oil pans and a power steering hoses on a '70' Cougar...
35:04 it Always helps to look after your tools Mike, you know ,like showing the ratchet mechanism a little oil once every blue moon may just help..✌️👍🇬🇧
I came back to watch you lower the control arm with the jack. I'm going to be replacing the lower control arms on my 97 Chevy WT in the next week or so. Let's just say I have a few broken lower shock mounting bolts and don't want to fuss with them.
I leanred to drive in an 1996 ext cab C1500 in that same blue and a bench seat with the 15" chrome wheels. I loved that colour and interior such comfy seats and you could recline the seats all the way back to take a 'nap' in it.
I love my OBS trucks, i have a k1500 and a c1500. Both trucks have less than 100k miles in great condition. I love these trucks. My good friend buys and sells alot of these trucks for 15-20k with lower mileage. They are bringing 2-3x what they were 10-12 years ago.
Finnegan those front bolt hole's are for a bull bare on the yute. It has had a bull bare on it that's way the lights are gone. My friend. From Brendon Crossley from Gympie QLD on the sunshin cost 4570. Best wishes from a long time watcher in Australia.
Thanks for making me feel like I must have made it in life - haha....I had 5 of those trucks in the late 90s early 2000s. I may not have thought much of it then but it was before trucks were"cool".
Mike I've found as a rule you want about 4.5 inches of clearance as a minimal from the lowest point to clear everything so you may wanna bring it up abit, granted angle of attack and the way the bodywork is rigged up also counts for alot with an overhang, but given how square it is you shouldnt have much trouble and what would be idea might be to give it a joe dirt angle of attack, or do like they did on the dukes of hazard and have the front wheels be an inch smaller than the rears, as they used 14's in the front, 15's on the rear to give it its staggered stance that made it look so good also Jay leno's garage is using some salt of the earth types for their detailing videos, showing how to detail the cars on the cheap, and the guy seems to know his stuff like multiple buckets for the washmit, the clay bar, and the like its the video on the old old porsche, back when they werent overpriced and crappy, like this really beautiful black old machine and you kinda need to foam the car first, to take the dirt off, then rinse, then use the mit, as the soap acts like the remover, and dont use dawn dish detergent which I did on the red one, go figure, 2 years after I sell the car, a car which I owned since new for 12 years, then he tells me worst part is with how sad a shape it was in, I could have actually tried that stuff in that video myself to fix it which is also why I know that 4.5 inch rule, as I came in too fast once, and barely cleared a concrete slab that separated the grass from the parking lot by less than 1 mm, and I have since moved onto a raised version of that same car and god is it nice to not have direct injection of every bump in the road, as I went from a car that had the ride quality of a old sportscar, to a lincon continental mark V in one of the worst places to have a stiff car, and god is it so nice to not have a direct injection of the shocks into my knees I just wish I had the old motor back, as that bitch sounded just like the old rally quattro's when you got on it and consumer reports complained about how loud it was, still cant believe that, me I was like this baby needs a sports exhaust lol 16:20 to 16:44 OHHH so that's what happened to that cuda in the barret jackson video they had on jay lenos garage, the idiot lowered it and broke that on the right side, I knew there was something off about the damn thing, and he said nah they just dont drive that well dumbass broke the thing, a multi million dollar cuda, a car he jacked up the price on so high that no normal person can touch the thing and tell him, hey your car is broke man
When these trucks were new, several aftermarket companies offered a bumper with frenched in round fog lights. Likely a Foose-inspired mod back when he worked for Boyd. Looked. really cool & has the effect of reducing the visual appearance of those big flat chrome surface on each side of the license.
Your trucks looks excellent, instead of cutting and buffing it use a clay bar and that will help you take the film off that outside of it. That may also save you a step in the process of getting it ready for SEMA.
Good advice! It’s amazing how well a clay bar improves the surface finish with very little effort & without the risk of burning through that beautiful blue paint!
I've just purchased a 84 short box Ford 150 that has 40yrs of day to day mung on it. After giving it a good wash would claybar help cut through the pollution and just mung or should I use a green scrubby to get the big stuff off first? Trying to save the original paint as much as possible. Just asking an opinion I'm not a paint guy
I have one of those hoses that expands when the water is on. It has been the best hose ive ever had, except sally i met on 27th ave, only $40. But that hose doesnt leak, expands triple its length, isnt stiff, honestly surprised with how good it is.
Never actually used it, but yea, heard all kinds of good things about Ride Tech. 👍Volvo! 😆😆😆Spring removal without a spring machine could literally potentially kill ya. I watch pretty much every auto show and Ive seen some spring removals that made me cringe, thought for sure someones about to get maimed or killed. Weight reduction is cheap and easy HP. Thats what made the C4 (hope to own one someday 😁) great. Glass body, aluminum frame, V8 power = win! Dropped suspension done right rather than cutting springs, heating springs, etc. 😁👍Yup, 90% of Jeeps are status symbols, will never be off road, thrashed, romped.
W/E... I want Finnegan to get paid. He doesn't make these videos out of the goodness of his heart. He does it to support himself and his family. Want something for nothing? go make a cardboard sign and stand out on a street corner.
@@KYoss68 And I am not going to watch these no longer and his ads are wasted.20 minutes are too much,that is all.Everything is about money these days and who has time to watch one hour long infomercials?
Honestly, the truck would look good with just the back leveled to the front or a 1"-3" drop. Perfect truck to make a badass street truck as long as none of the mods aren't reversible. It's honestly to clean and pristine to xo anything to it. Some chevy lover would pay a lot for that truck in its stock form. I would spend a lot of money on a low mile, all stock/original, super clean 99-02 4WD Silverado. I miss my 01 and my 03 so much. My 03 was a 6L RCLB that i was building into a sweet street truck.
Are you in Savannah Finnegan? I went there in October to visit my Daughter who had moved from S Cal. I had never been there before but loved it, looked like where you were on the road.
I got my grandparents 92 Chevy G20 starcraft brougham conversion van. It's mint, has 34k original miles, and has the tbi 5.7. I got into an accident, and I am having the hardest time finding parts for it. All while we are moving and looking to buy a 2nd house that we can use for a rental property. I'll eventually find a donor vehicle to strip the parts I need. Nothing has been more stressful than worrying about the van my grandpa ordered in 1991. When my wife and I got the Van. It was at 14k miles.
Since the factory wheels are hitting the fenders, do you know which component has widened the track width? Looking to do some similar mods to my 93 GMC but I’m married to the rims 2O x 8.5 with 4.5 backspacing. I think the stockers are 15 x 7 with 4.75 backspace?
A six cylinder regular cab trucks didn't have tow hooks. The holes in the air dam are then obviously cut out for the tow bar that used to be on it. That explains the other holes in the frame being used and the low miles.
If you really want to wake those coil overs up install a Flaming Rivers rack and pinion kit!!! It made a night and day difference on my truck. I can run 7-8 degrees of caster and still turn wheel with little effort under hard braking. I think you going to have to crank those Lower Spring Adjuster Nut up. I did kind of what you did and the suspension was not happy. Ridtech told me 14" over all shock length, loaded is the number where the suspension is happiest. It seam tight to me, like it's going coil bind but it works.
aye finally someone i watch is fucking around with the obs trucks so i can finally learn what to do to mine thanks mike & how can i remove the stupid 95mph limiter ? i swear my 350 wants to keep going 😅 i was just doing my front suspension today, and this helped.
Great show, as always ! On a more serious note, please wear eye protection when you're working below the truck/any vehicle. You'll miss an eyeball more than you'd think. I know ....
On your lower control arms lower a arms you can move the sock to the outer hole it will make the spring stiffer without changing the rate of the spring you just lose the leverage of the A-frame and also help with your role Center
Nice kit! As far as the paint goes, it's contaminated from years of sitting around. I'll bet if you go over it with a clay bar to get rid of the crap in the paint and give it a two or three stage buff, it'll probably come out great! Thanks for the episode, guys!✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦 P.S.; it still pisses me off that I can't win the 510 'cuz I'm in Canada...😂
Hwy Finn , how’s the leg has it been 6 weeks already .. seams like last week you broke your leg after buying that 510 .. and I saw the episode when you got that OBS work truck doing the one leg burnouts .. at your buddy’s new place .. but anyway hope all is well and legs Doing fine .. have yo catch up on your boat motor if you saved it or not .. saw bits and pieces of it but I will get it done and watch it .. ok good luck at sema with the OBS
Hey Mike. Rich from Deboss garage used a product from Rust-Oleum called crud cutter to remove rust from a subframe on an EV project on one of his last videos. You might try it on that right front frame. It seemed to work really good on the subframe he was doing.
Okay guys this is not a critique this is supportive suggestions. When you wash a vehicle you want to start with the hood leave the places that get the most crime for last so your wash mit is not full of abrasive material when you drag it across the areas that you see the most
Not that it matters but those aren't fog light holes on the airdam they are where the tow hook petrude through. Also I didn't realize they put tow hooks on 2wd trucks. Maybe it was an extra option?
Once clear starts lifting there is no fixing it.. It's one of those things where the only option is to sand it all off and start over because anything you put over it is just going to lift as the dead clear under it lets loose. (I took autobody refinishing in college, was going to be my job until my back ruined all manual labor for me.)
Literally used the #BlingSauce ‘this morning. The coconutty trim sauce smell is so nice. The leather sauce is great on leather wrapped steering wheels and shifters, too.
Man as jet owner many yrs and seeing what you were able do on just race fuel is CRAZY! Just sad i saw this 1st yrs later. Watched all seasons RK didn't know had YT channel till seeing episode of wify's Eliminatior
Decent episode with 2 comments. 1, I'm still waiting to see the secret/easy shortcut for keeping the aluminum strut cup in place while installing the shock. B, the markings/wear spots where the tow hooks USED to be, indicates the truck HAD tow hooks.
I would not repaint it. I would leave it, especially for Sema, highlight the fact that it’s original paint and look what we did with these great cleaning products.
Only thing I would do is exchange the front end for the one that came off the SLT trim and possibly try to find a set of the old school Centerline rims from the 90s
Love those trucks I have a 95 Choo custom with 243.ths on it all is still o.g motor I put a super chip in it and it will not shut off at 95 mine just keeps pulling it also helped the shift points
Mike, your the only one that can build a truck for a company for Sema. Where they can't even show off their products and it's still ok! Well it doesn't have leather, and black plastic and rubber trim. But it's in good shape and it has paint! Just put a leather seat and a rubber bumper on the floor of the display. 😂😂😂😂 love it. Thanks bling sauce!!
Man i really don't need a 2x4 SC SB GMT400 up here in Qc, Canada but id love to have it. 😅 im actually shopping for a SC LB 4x4 Stick shift. i bought a Parts truck with clean title and a NV3500 4x4 but its too rough to even fix. im thinking about going down south and get me a solid base to build a nice little worktruck. 👌 i miss my 97 GMT400 own it for 10yrs rust just had to take it from me. 😔
Beautiful dog. It's a fact that 90% of new jeep owners say that it will never go off the pavement, ever. And they have no idea what the term " jeep life" even means.
I’ll be really surprised if the knockouts for camber adjustment have been removed as I watch y’all mark the bolts. Guess we’ll find out shortly lol. Btw OEM tools has an awesome tool for removing those so camber can be adjusted.
How do you say this 18:05 and not immediately go full Micheal Scott with a "that's what she said"? Unbelievable discipline!! You deserve a medal.
The line at 18:05 is what I tell my wife in the bedroom.
Fun fact, if you want to remove your calipers, but not loose the fluid, put a brake stick in to push the pedal down about an inch. This closes off the compensator ports between the master cylinder and the reservoir. think of it as putting your finger over the end of a straw and pulling it out of the glass. Holds the fluid in until you are ready to drain it or put the caliper back on.
I'm going to try this
I use this method at least once a week
Holy hell that's a cool tip. def gonna try it out the next opportunity
I have heard this but I thought it was half way to close off the valve body in the master cylinder.
You spelled lose wrong rotf
Love the fact you’re taking something, giving it some love and having FUN with it.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don’t take it out and use it, it’s going to rust!
You are right that color is amazing! When you said treats to your dog my dog was listening and sat uo and looked at me so I had to get up and give him a treat! 😂 My dogs know the "W" word as well!
I love how nothing is sacred to you! You find a perfect early Caddie and your first instinct is not to preserve it. Your first instinct is to shred it to bits and build a drag/speed warrior.
You buy a perfect, low miles truck so you can LS swap it and slam in on the pavement.
You build a 55 Chevy with a Chrysler elephant!
“Nothing is Sacred” should be your next Tshirt.
Bringing Joe on full time was the best decision made for the channel. I do miss Cotton and Newbern tho. I hope they are doing well and we get to see them soon.
Newbern has his own channel www.youtube.com/@12VoltDave but we need more Cotten Fer sure!
@@MC-cy1zi aren’t they doing the faster with newbern
Newbern is off doing his own channel, and it is full of vehicles that actually get done and run and stuff (sorry Finnegan, I had to go there). Seriously thought, I do miss how it all went before, but Joe seems to be right on it.
Mike speaks the truth, got the S10 because I couldn't afford a F150 or 1500 as a 20 y/o. Didn't modded it much, it was just really nice having my first brand new truck that wasn't always breaking down.
Damn these guys are haters complaining about your commercials. At least they aren't talking crap about how much better 12volt daves show is cause it makes them feel better about themselves
I lowered a 1995 2wd ext cab short box. No welding. Did a 4 inch front and a 6 inch rear. Had to cut the notch and drill holes for the brace bracket. I used a kit from DJM Suspension. Worked decently from what I remember. This was years ago.
I was a 20 year old salesman at a GMC store in Tucson when that was a new truck.
Eww Tucson lol. I've been in the 480 for 30 years
@@Berm_Blaster left Tucson in 1997. It was great back then.
Wow, that's a clean old truck, and you're right. They always look better lowered.
I think that is what Joe was starting to say about how well it was coming apart without heat before… squirrel
Awesome project, love seeing the progress.
Personally I'd leave it stock height and get some black NASCAR style rims with a beefy tire and go for the "muscle truck" look with it.
But seeings how you are a lowered minitrucker at heart, I totally understand going this route. Can't wait to see the finished product.
These trucks went crazy. Bought my first one in 21 for my first vehicle. Paid 2000 for a decent truck, rust on frame. Small spots om the box. Otherwise, mint. Now they're selling those truck, same condition for 5k. Wild
Thank you. I look forward to your show every week. Thanks 👍
You can tell you shot in 2 different days your wearing a different shirt on cleaning day then explaining ridetec day..... still love the show mike!!!!!!
I never enter to win anything but have made an exception with this. Had to take a shot.
love your show Mike! I used to think lowered vehicles were cool, but then I got tired of replacing oil pans and a power steering hoses on a '70' Cougar...
I kind of wanted to watch a show about you working on a truck and ended up watching a show about bling sauce
35:04 it Always helps to look after your tools Mike, you know ,like showing the ratchet mechanism a little oil once every blue moon may just help..✌️👍🇬🇧
Love the Indigo Blue paint. Had a 95 SLE fully loaded just like it, but unfortunately she got flooded out in 2014. I wish I could get another one.
I came back to watch you lower the control arm with the jack. I'm going to be replacing the lower control arms on my 97 Chevy WT in the next week or so. Let's just say I have a few broken lower shock mounting bolts and don't want to fuss with them.
I leanred to drive in an 1996 ext cab C1500 in that same blue and a bench seat with the 15" chrome wheels. I loved that colour and interior such comfy seats and you could recline the seats all the way back to take a 'nap' in it.
I love my OBS trucks, i have a k1500 and a c1500. Both trucks have less than 100k miles in great condition. I love these trucks. My good friend buys and sells alot of these trucks for 15-20k with lower mileage. They are bringing 2-3x what they were 10-12 years ago.
I love following you you actually show what you are doing and explain what you are doing and why your doing it just amazing
Finnegan those front bolt hole's are for a bull bare on the yute. It has had a bull bare on it that's way the lights are gone. My friend. From Brendon Crossley from Gympie QLD on the sunshin cost 4570. Best wishes from a long time watcher in Australia.
Thanks for making me feel like I must have made it in life - haha....I had 5 of those trucks in the late 90s early 2000s. I may not have thought much of it then but it was before trucks were"cool".
Mike I've found as a rule you want about 4.5 inches of clearance as a minimal from the lowest point to clear everything so you may wanna bring it up abit, granted angle of attack and the way the bodywork is rigged up also counts for alot with an overhang, but given how square it is you shouldnt have much trouble
and what would be idea might be to give it a joe dirt angle of attack, or do like they did on the dukes of hazard and have the front wheels be an inch smaller than the rears, as they used 14's in the front, 15's on the rear to give it its staggered stance that made it look so good
also Jay leno's garage is using some salt of the earth types for their detailing videos, showing how to detail the cars on the cheap, and the guy seems to know his stuff
like multiple buckets for the washmit, the clay bar, and the like
its the video on the old old porsche, back when they werent overpriced and crappy, like this really beautiful black old machine
and you kinda need to foam the car first, to take the dirt off, then rinse, then use the mit, as the soap acts like the remover, and dont use dawn dish detergent
which I did on the red one, go figure, 2 years after I sell the car, a car which I owned since new for 12 years, then he tells me
worst part is with how sad a shape it was in, I could have actually tried that stuff in that video myself to fix it
which is also why I know that 4.5 inch rule, as I came in too fast once, and barely cleared a concrete slab that separated the grass from the parking lot by less than 1 mm, and I have since moved onto a raised version of that same car
and god is it nice to not have direct injection of every bump in the road, as I went from a car that had the ride quality of a old sportscar, to a lincon continental mark V
in one of the worst places to have a stiff car, and god is it so nice to not have a direct injection of the shocks into my knees
I just wish I had the old motor back, as that bitch sounded just like the old rally quattro's when you got on it
and consumer reports complained about how loud it was, still cant believe that, me I was like this baby needs a sports exhaust lol
16:20 to 16:44 OHHH so that's what happened to that cuda in the barret jackson video they had on jay lenos garage, the idiot lowered it and broke that on the right side, I knew there was something off about the damn thing, and he said nah they just dont drive that well
dumbass broke the thing, a multi million dollar cuda, a car he jacked up the price on so high that no normal person can touch the thing and tell him, hey your car is broke man
That’s not a fog light bumper, those holes are where the tow hooks come out at. They twist and sit horizontal in those holes.
I know, think he is losing it. Nor do you tie down the frame of a vehicle...lmao
When these trucks were new, several aftermarket companies offered a bumper with frenched in round fog lights. Likely a Foose-inspired mod back when he worked for Boyd. Looked. really cool & has the effect of reducing the visual appearance of those big flat chrome surface on each side of the license.
Awesome upgrade guys wow
Your trucks looks excellent, instead of cutting and buffing it use a clay bar and that will help you take the film off that outside of it. That may also save you a step in the process of getting it ready for SEMA.
Good advice! It’s amazing how well a clay bar improves the surface finish with very little effort & without the risk of burning through that beautiful blue paint!
I've just purchased a 84 short box Ford 150 that has 40yrs of day to day mung on it. After giving it a good wash would claybar help cut through the pollution and just mung or should I use a green scrubby to get the big stuff off first? Trying to save the original paint as much as possible. Just asking an opinion I'm not a paint guy
@@parentsbasement7734 Always clay bar before cutting/polishing.
That's a nice find
I have one of those hoses that expands when the water is on. It has been the best hose ive ever had, except sally i met on 27th ave, only $40. But that hose doesnt leak, expands triple its length, isnt stiff, honestly surprised with how good it is.
Dude yeah Sally is a good one.
100% agree. Everything is better lowered and must have big bass.
The holes in the valance are for tow hooks, the valance for fog lights have a smaller opening and i believe the holes farther apart.
Never actually used it, but yea, heard all kinds of good things about Ride Tech. 👍Volvo! 😆😆😆Spring removal without a spring machine could literally potentially kill ya. I watch pretty much every auto show and Ive seen some spring removals that made me cringe, thought for sure someones about to get maimed or killed. Weight reduction is cheap and easy HP. Thats what made the C4 (hope to own one someday 😁) great. Glass body, aluminum frame, V8 power = win! Dropped suspension done right rather than cutting springs, heating springs, etc. 😁👍Yup, 90% of Jeeps are status symbols, will never be off road, thrashed, romped.
I need the stock spindles for my 1994.. Serious. Do you still have them?
19:36 if you want to skip past the commercials
Thanks,just commented about super long ads.
No kidding! Ridiculous! Take a shot every time he says "sauce".
W/E... I want Finnegan to get paid. He doesn't make these videos out of the goodness of his heart. He does it to support himself and his family. Want something for nothing? go make a cardboard sign and stand out on a street corner.
@@KYoss68 And I am not going to watch these no longer and his ads are wasted.20 minutes are too much,that is all.Everything is about money these days and who has time to watch one hour long infomercials?
Honestly, the truck would look good with just the back leveled to the front or a 1"-3" drop. Perfect truck to make a badass street truck as long as none of the mods aren't reversible. It's honestly to clean and pristine to xo anything to it. Some chevy lover would pay a lot for that truck in its stock form. I would spend a lot of money on a low mile, all stock/original, super clean 99-02 4WD Silverado. I miss my 01 and my 03 so much. My 03 was a 6L RCLB that i was building into a sweet street truck.
Hey Finn, I live in Acworth and have a nice set of old school 15 inch 5 spoke Americans that would look great on that truck!
Are you in Savannah Finnegan? I went there in October to visit my Daughter who had moved from S Cal. I had never been there before but loved it, looked like where you were on the road.
nlg, I think it looks pretty sweet lowered in the stock wheels, they're in such good shape too
I got my grandparents 92 Chevy G20 starcraft brougham conversion van. It's mint, has 34k original miles, and has the tbi 5.7. I got into an accident, and I am having the hardest time finding parts for it. All while we are moving and looking to buy a 2nd house that we can use for a rental property. I'll eventually find a donor vehicle to strip the parts I need. Nothing has been more stressful than worrying about the van my grandpa ordered in 1991. When my wife and I got the Van. It was at 14k miles.
Since the factory wheels are hitting the fenders, do you know which component has widened the track width? Looking to do some similar mods to my 93 GMC but I’m married to the rims 2O x 8.5 with 4.5 backspacing. I think the stockers are 15 x 7 with 4.75 backspace?
Pro tech tip any bolt or nut going inside a frame rail tack weld a peice of fencing wire to it so you dont loose it inside the chassis
I always mount the swaybar in the tow hook bracket. No factory fog lights on a work truck.
wonder if that coating on the frame is the undercoating sold by the dealership?
A six cylinder regular cab trucks didn't have tow hooks. The holes in the air dam are then obviously cut out for the tow bar that used to be on it. That explains the other holes in the frame being used and the low miles.
If you really want to wake those coil overs up install a Flaming Rivers rack and pinion kit!!! It made a night and day difference on my truck. I can run 7-8 degrees of caster and still turn wheel with little effort under hard braking.
I think you going to have to crank those Lower Spring Adjuster Nut up. I did kind of what you did and the suspension was not happy. Ridtech told me 14" over all shock length, loaded is the number where the suspension is happiest. It seam tight to me, like it's going coil bind but it works.
aye finally someone i watch is fucking around with the obs trucks so i can finally learn what to do to mine thanks mike & how can i remove the stupid 95mph limiter ? i swear my 350 wants to keep going 😅 i was just doing my front suspension today, and this helped.
Great show, as always ! On a more serious note, please wear eye protection when you're working below the truck/any vehicle. You'll miss an eyeball more than you'd think. I know ....
I may be wrong but those “fog light” cutouts were for the tow hooks to stick out.🤷♂️
On your lower control arms lower a arms you can move the sock to the outer hole it will make the spring stiffer without changing the rate of the spring you just lose the leverage of the A-frame and also help with your role Center
Loving this truck, gonna be a badass build
Nice kit! As far as the paint goes, it's contaminated from years of sitting around. I'll bet if you go over it with a clay bar to get rid of the crap in the paint and give it a two or three stage buff, it'll probably come out great! Thanks for the episode, guys!✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
P.S.; it still pisses me off that I can't win the 510 'cuz I'm in Canada...😂
Great video, Who makes a good wrench to adjust the collar on the coil over. The one that came with my kit is useless. Slips off doesn't fit well .😁👍👍
Do the ridetech coilovers let you select different spring rates?
Hwy Finn , how’s the leg has it been 6 weeks already .. seams like last week you broke your leg after buying that 510 .. and I saw the episode when you got that OBS work truck doing the one leg burnouts .. at your buddy’s new place .. but anyway hope all is well and legs Doing fine .. have yo catch up on your boat motor if you saved it or not .. saw bits and pieces of it but I will get it done and watch it .. ok good luck at sema with the OBS
Hey Mike. Rich from Deboss garage used a product from Rust-Oleum called crud cutter to remove rust from a subframe on an EV project on one of his last videos. You might try it on that right front frame. It seemed to work really good on the subframe he was doing.
Okay guys this is not a critique this is supportive suggestions. When you wash a vehicle you want to start with the hood leave the places that get the most crime for last so your wash mit is not full of abrasive material when you drag it across the areas that you see the most
Great video Mike , thanks for posting
Not that it matters but those aren't fog light holes on the airdam they are where the tow hook petrude through. Also I didn't realize they put tow hooks on 2wd trucks. Maybe it was an extra option?
Great little boat. I want one just like it
The frame was probably brushed with a protective coating to fight rust from road salt, or it could be an old rust preventative like lps3
Damn sketchy jack stand install - 47:37. Glad you survived!!!
11:55 a detailing clay bar might be your friend here.
Once clear starts lifting there is no fixing it.. It's one of those things where the only option is to sand it all off and start over because anything you put over it is just going to lift as the dead clear under it lets loose. (I took autobody refinishing in college, was going to be my job until my back ruined all manual labor for me.)
Literally used the #BlingSauce ‘this morning. The coconutty trim sauce smell is so nice. The leather sauce is great on leather wrapped steering wheels and shifters, too.
Man as jet owner many yrs and seeing what you were able do on just race fuel is CRAZY! Just sad i saw this 1st yrs later. Watched all seasons RK didn't know had YT channel till seeing episode of wify's Eliminatior
What tool was that you were using to adjust the coil spring
That is a very good looking color of paint, l love it. What's the paint code for it.
Love this build!
Killer build. I have a 93 lowered that is the same color.
Decent episode with 2 comments. 1, I'm still waiting to see the secret/easy shortcut for keeping the aluminum strut cup in place while installing the shock. B, the markings/wear spots where the tow hooks USED to be, indicates the truck HAD tow hooks.
Is that brake line about to be pinched by the spring?
Some chassis undercoatings were dealer options. That might be why it was missing coating behind the control arms.
Dude!!! Great video!! You need to roll the fenders!!! ✌️
I would not repaint it. I would leave it, especially for Sema, highlight the fact that it’s original paint and look what we did with these great cleaning products.
For your 510, Nissan has a new head for your motor, double over cam head. With a 5 speed conversion with a Subaru rear end .
video starts at 13:00
That’s gonna be a great build
Only thing I would do is exchange the front end for the one that came off the SLT trim and possibly try to find a set of the old school Centerline rims from the 90s
14:18 they are strapped from the wheels though
Love those trucks I have a 95 Choo custom with 243.ths on it all is still o.g motor I put a super chip in it and it will not shut off at 95 mine just keeps pulling it also helped the shift points
Is the v6 gonna be for sale after you pull it?
Mike, your the only one that can build a truck for a company for Sema. Where they can't even show off their products and it's still ok! Well it doesn't have leather, and black plastic and rubber trim. But it's in good shape and it has paint! Just put a leather seat and a rubber bumper on the floor of the display. 😂😂😂😂 love it. Thanks bling sauce!!
You should of showed the factory knock outs for the camber and caster adjustment and why you have to knock them out.
the holes are for tow loops to stick out.
18:06 4 inches of shaft showing? That’s enormous! Some would say it’s even too much.
I say a newer LV3 , 4.3 swap with some boost . Try keeping as many of the stock under hood parts as possible.
Man i really don't need a 2x4 SC SB GMT400 up here in Qc, Canada but id love to have it. 😅 im actually shopping for a SC LB 4x4 Stick shift. i bought a Parts truck with clean title and a NV3500 4x4 but its too rough to even fix. im thinking about going down south and get me a solid base to build a nice little worktruck. 👌 i miss my 97 GMT400 own it for 10yrs rust just had to take it from me. 😔
Wonder what the Datsun will look like when I use Bling Sauce on it?
Looks so good with stock wheels
Beautiful dog. It's a fact that 90% of new jeep owners say that it will never go off the pavement, ever. And they have no idea what the term " jeep life" even means.
When do we get to see the rear install? It looks done at the end outside? Plz don't make us wait till next Sunday.
Hey, I need those front end parts you took off for my ‘97😂 I’m close by too in C’ville
what is the rubber hose that is between the coils of the spring ??
I’ll be really surprised if the knockouts for camber adjustment have been removed as I watch y’all mark the bolts. Guess we’ll find out shortly lol. Btw OEM tools has an awesome tool for removing those so camber can be adjusted.
Jeez, I honestly can't remember the last time I pulled apart an 88-98 without HEAVY use of The Blue Wrench.
What’s was ur favorite episode of road kill mine was when hell cat old charger and cheap truck challenge
Hi from Australia