josh40601
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- Joined
- January 17, 2011
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- City, State
- La Mesa, CA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- Ranger & Explorer
last night i got home and was getting ready to go hunt down the female npt fitting, but I wanted to make sure I got the right size, and I knew I had a spare on my fittings shelf, so I opened up the door and WAHLAH! A rear axle vent tube I bought for the bumblebee that didn't fit was staring right in the face with a light coating of surface rust to prove it was steel.
I cut the threads off, drilled the hole out to a full 1/4" took the pump off, pulled the brass fittings out (getting that brass nut from out of the reservoir sucked), found some sheet metal and made a patch, then took the pump over to my neighbor so he could tig everything together.
Randy (neighbor) was not too happy with the prettiness of his tig welding, so I didn't get a pic, but will take one tonight after the paint has dried.
Also got my new temporary front shocks. the measurements were ~16.5" collapsed, and ~27 5/8" extended. I went searching for something that had these same measurements with an eyelet top and bottom, and found out that a 99-06 2500 silverado rear shocks are the same measurements...
I say these are temps because I want to go to coilovers soon, and these shocks will be perfect for my daily, and they were the cheapest of the performance brands, so I got them. These are also why I couldn't afford to do anything else with the pump. lol
and because I like looking at it, I took another picture in basically the same spot as the last picture
I cut the threads off, drilled the hole out to a full 1/4" took the pump off, pulled the brass fittings out (getting that brass nut from out of the reservoir sucked), found some sheet metal and made a patch, then took the pump over to my neighbor so he could tig everything together.
Randy (neighbor) was not too happy with the prettiness of his tig welding, so I didn't get a pic, but will take one tonight after the paint has dried.
Also got my new temporary front shocks. the measurements were ~16.5" collapsed, and ~27 5/8" extended. I went searching for something that had these same measurements with an eyelet top and bottom, and found out that a 99-06 2500 silverado rear shocks are the same measurements...
I say these are temps because I want to go to coilovers soon, and these shocks will be perfect for my daily, and they were the cheapest of the performance brands, so I got them. These are also why I couldn't afford to do anything else with the pump. lol
and because I like looking at it, I took another picture in basically the same spot as the last picture