josh40601
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got part of the fuel lines ran this weekend, just need to order the mounting clamps and a few more AN fittings and the hydramat, then its ready to go.
A friend of mine works at Carl Burger Dodge and is keeping a look out for an under the rail tool box that i will sit over the fuel cell. Eventually i will likely go with a larger cell, but i had this one, and the best part of this whole swap is now the fuel system is universal.
since i was waiting on parts, I worked on the bumper a lot more today.
Started with this:
then went to this
then this
and lastly this
Next up was fitting it to the truck
Now that it is mocked up to the truck, there were things I already seen would not work for me. First thing is the bottom corners are way too low for what I will be doing with this truck. So, I'm going to trim a yyuge section off the bottom of the bumper to tuck it closer to the body. the license plate and reverse light areas will remain the same, but the corners will get trimmed and braced from the inside. After getting it mocked up to where it was even at the corners and back, I used some scrap solid rod to temporarily mount the bumper in place while i built mounting brackets.
I am also going to trim the tops of the side plates to be more uniform with the bed. I wanted to get mounting brackets done first, so that is what I spent the rest of the afternoon working on. I am bolting it to the sides of the frame in factory holes, and adding 2 inset nuts to the frame plate that will have 2 more mounting points for a total of 4. Once i get all the plates built, I'll pull the whole assembly off to finish weld the brackets and trim down the corners like I want

A friend of mine works at Carl Burger Dodge and is keeping a look out for an under the rail tool box that i will sit over the fuel cell. Eventually i will likely go with a larger cell, but i had this one, and the best part of this whole swap is now the fuel system is universal.
since i was waiting on parts, I worked on the bumper a lot more today.
Started with this:

then went to this

then this

and lastly this

Next up was fitting it to the truck



Now that it is mocked up to the truck, there were things I already seen would not work for me. First thing is the bottom corners are way too low for what I will be doing with this truck. So, I'm going to trim a yyuge section off the bottom of the bumper to tuck it closer to the body. the license plate and reverse light areas will remain the same, but the corners will get trimmed and braced from the inside. After getting it mocked up to where it was even at the corners and back, I used some scrap solid rod to temporarily mount the bumper in place while i built mounting brackets.

I am also going to trim the tops of the side plates to be more uniform with the bed. I wanted to get mounting brackets done first, so that is what I spent the rest of the afternoon working on. I am bolting it to the sides of the frame in factory holes, and adding 2 inset nuts to the frame plate that will have 2 more mounting points for a total of 4. Once i get all the plates built, I'll pull the whole assembly off to finish weld the brackets and trim down the corners like I want