Recent content by volaredon

May consider 70s bolt in style. Need for 80s "tall/wide" style for either/or 4 speed /4wd. OD4 speed has same hump as 2wd auto, so won't work. (Not talking about the fiberglass extension those trucks had) all club cab trucks had this tunnel whether auto/stick or 2wd/4wd. Chicago area...

The biggest issue with the first cab was that originally it must have been from a cab and chassis that had the back wall cut out and whoever fixed it did a hodge podge job of replacing it with Bondo and pop rivets, I ground all that out and welded it in solid, thinking that I would live with it...

Just ordered floor pans for the cab at home. Don't know if I will need them completely, or just sections. Usually I fab my own. I have to get busy with my grinder and wire wheel to see for sure This cab came off a '90 that was a military truck when new. The cab in paint jail is also a 90, both...

Not lately. Was at the body shop a week ago no progress. I have another cab and a nice roof off of (yet) another cab, cab #2 roof is much better than the roof on the cab at the body shop that they claim they can fix .. but yet said "absolutely not" to cutting the posts and grafting on a nice...

Do you only have the one set? I see "1979" along the bottom. Do you have these for the different years? I'd be interested in something like 81-84-ish years

Disc brakes on rear are overrated. Nothing wrong with drums when they're right.

To hell with LMC

I too have done the opposite, went back to a carb on originally TBI trucks. And i'd probably still have my 88 if I had done that, I had wanted to the whole time I had that truck and fought the TBI on it . I'm building a d250 from the frame up as we speak, with parts from '81 to '00 going back...

Depends on engine. 92 360 was still TBI, it was a year behind the 318 in getting the magnum version. Not sure about cruise, but the gauges are still like the carburetor trucks.

88-92 TBI is absolutely crap

I have 2 80s flat hoods here. I may wind up having to run one. The idiot who blasted my parts warped my BB hood and I don't know if it's salvageable. I like it for it being different. I don't plan on driving this truck when there's ice around anyway. I do remember the ice formation there on my...

Glad you have had good luck with them...

Both 79s I have had were the flat hood. I think 79 was the first year of that.

Screw LMC but they aren't the only ones showing 85/older and 86/newer being different

What's the difference on these between 86-down and 87-up? I know that they sell different gaskets for them And will an 87- up wing window and frame assembly fit an 86-older door and vise versa