thejudges69
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Well, the last 45 days I've been night and day trying to tear my pete apart and put it back together. Let me start by saying I'm doing this job solely by myself, these pics are from my dads shop where the truck is, I don't like help to much and prefer to work at my own pace and know its done how I'd want it done the first time.
ok, now, I'm building a working class show truck or at least a sharp work truck haha. Anyways, I tore it down to have the frame sandblasted and painted. In the process I have installed a new front rearend housing, and new rebuild DS402 3.70 ratio rears, new battery boxes will be installed. I pulled it off the road august 14th with the anticipation that it would be done and back on the road sept 15th, the painter had the truck longer then expected and pushed the finish date way back.
I removed with hood and sleeper for paint, moved the fifth wheel back on the frame since my wheelbase is so long and my sleeper is so big I'm always overweight on my steer axle so now I can move weight to the drives. The painter sandblasted the frame, and put down 3 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint. He did a phenomenal job. I'm a hard one to please and I'm very happy with the job. Once the truck was hauled back from Lancaster, Pa, I started the rebuild. first thing was new plumbing from the front to the back. When I stretched the truck 4 years ago I didn't have the time to do the plumbing right so I just extended the air lines in the frame to make them 5 feet longer each. I didn't like the job so I spent the money and cleaned it up. The truck has new shocks on the back, I also had a stainless rear crossmember bent which should be drilled and fit tomorrow. I put all new air bags in the sleeper air ride suspension. The rear bags were in good shape and came out to paint so I put them back in. I'm also installing fiberglass rear full fenders which will hopefully be fit to the brackets in the next few days. I'm also going to install new front fenders on the hood, the passenger one got smashed in a wreck going into manhattan. There are no corners ever cut on my truck and I always go out of my way to do the job right. I can't afford shop rates on the road and everytime I have ever taken my truck to a shop its been a disaster and usually ends badly for the shop. I refuse to allow anyone to wrench on my truck or trailer unless I'm overseeing the job to the fullest extent. I never sit in waiting rooms.
I'm bad with keeping pics and thread going but I will try to do the best I can.
this is the truck before paint towing it out to pa on my buddies wagon.
this is my brother hauling it back for me
some of the new air lines. not done yet
I pulled the air tank to do the plumbing, I'm waiting on stainless air tank wraps which should be here monday.
front air bags still need the tops and bottoms painted but that will happen next week.
new shocks and some stainless brackets I made to hold the air lines up above the shocks
new leveling valve and more plumbing. this was kind of a mess from the factory, I simplified everything.
ok, now, I'm building a working class show truck or at least a sharp work truck haha. Anyways, I tore it down to have the frame sandblasted and painted. In the process I have installed a new front rearend housing, and new rebuild DS402 3.70 ratio rears, new battery boxes will be installed. I pulled it off the road august 14th with the anticipation that it would be done and back on the road sept 15th, the painter had the truck longer then expected and pushed the finish date way back.
I removed with hood and sleeper for paint, moved the fifth wheel back on the frame since my wheelbase is so long and my sleeper is so big I'm always overweight on my steer axle so now I can move weight to the drives. The painter sandblasted the frame, and put down 3 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint. He did a phenomenal job. I'm a hard one to please and I'm very happy with the job. Once the truck was hauled back from Lancaster, Pa, I started the rebuild. first thing was new plumbing from the front to the back. When I stretched the truck 4 years ago I didn't have the time to do the plumbing right so I just extended the air lines in the frame to make them 5 feet longer each. I didn't like the job so I spent the money and cleaned it up. The truck has new shocks on the back, I also had a stainless rear crossmember bent which should be drilled and fit tomorrow. I put all new air bags in the sleeper air ride suspension. The rear bags were in good shape and came out to paint so I put them back in. I'm also installing fiberglass rear full fenders which will hopefully be fit to the brackets in the next few days. I'm also going to install new front fenders on the hood, the passenger one got smashed in a wreck going into manhattan. There are no corners ever cut on my truck and I always go out of my way to do the job right. I can't afford shop rates on the road and everytime I have ever taken my truck to a shop its been a disaster and usually ends badly for the shop. I refuse to allow anyone to wrench on my truck or trailer unless I'm overseeing the job to the fullest extent. I never sit in waiting rooms.
I'm bad with keeping pics and thread going but I will try to do the best I can.
this is the truck before paint towing it out to pa on my buddies wagon.
this is my brother hauling it back for me
some of the new air lines. not done yet
I pulled the air tank to do the plumbing, I'm waiting on stainless air tank wraps which should be here monday.
front air bags still need the tops and bottoms painted but that will happen next week.
new shocks and some stainless brackets I made to hold the air lines up above the shocks
new leveling valve and more plumbing. this was kind of a mess from the factory, I simplified everything.
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