Well, since I run my power steering and brakes off my p/s pump, it gets quite a bit hotter. So, as part 1 to combat that heat, I made a reservoir to hold additional fluid. Later, I will add a small radiator with fan installed to cool it further. The fluid does get hot enough that I can feel the brakes and steering get weak from the fluid thinning.
Here's the tank. It has 2 return lines at the top, and two feed lines at the bottom. Made it out of some scrap steel I had, and bought some air compressor fittings and welded them up. It has a twist top, which can then be secured by nuts. I also can seal the top if I want with gasket maker if necessary. The weight of this is so much, it wont hold up on my weak rusted inner fenders. When I get my new high pressure hydro lines back for the brakes, I will get the truck in the garage and begin tubing in a new radiator core, and run tube back to the fire wall, then to the cage. Should be pretty tough
I also got new tires. Well, new used tires that is. They're 36x13x16.5 Parnelli Jones Dirt grips.
The best tire has maybe 1/4in tread left, but I paid nothing. Freebee... So I'll most likely mount 2 of them, keep one as a spare and trash the other. Then I'll just get 2 new pitbulls, and later replace the other to PJ's. These will be mounted on hummer rims which will be recentered and match my 5x5 1/2 lug pattern. For my needs, I will most likely get the 8 bolt wheels because they're much cheaper and easier to get.
