Well, I finally said screw it and decided to go ahead with swapping my blue body onto my second truck's working drivetrain. I've slated 3 weeks for this project, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to take that long (famous last words).
DAY 1:
Had shell towed to friend's back yard. His neighbor's got horses! Yay!
Smelly fly-attracting bastards. Who'd have thought you can have corrals in the middle of Scottsdale. I feel like I'm working at littleblackpsycho's house again (were I was constantly being attacked by random farm animals while working on his Sy).
Luckily I ingeniously rigged my blue truck together with nothing but zip ties and bungee cords. It allowed for an effortless F1-style teardown. I had every body panel and cladding piece off the truck in literally 5 minutes. It was quite impressive to watch, I should have video taped it. The body and bed were unbolted from the frame almost as easily. Here's the truck about 20 minutes after I parked it.
I laid everything out carefully and covered it to keep anything from damaging the parts. They already had a crap ton of dust on them anyways. Oh well, I still have to take the truck to the painter when i'm done for buffing and some repainting, so I'm not too worried about dust/scratches so much.
Random cladding shots...
So after the quick teardown it was back home to start getting the black truck as torn-down as possible but still be able to drive it. I ripped the passenger seat out and took the door panels out before calling it a day...
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DAY 2:
I continued on the teardown of the black truck. I started with the front and took off the fender cladding, bumper cover, and grill cover. I loosely put the grill cover back on just for looks...
Since I'd gone through the dashes of these trucks a bajillion times, taking out the dash went very smoothly. Most importantly, the truck still ran fine with it out.
Just a quick shot while driving. I'm sure that if I really wanted to, I could have shorted out a few contacts and blown in the right air tubes to get A/C to come out of this hose and cool me down, but I figured it wasn't worth the time.
I pulled the truck next to the shell and spent a few minutes planning the order of events to make this a success...
Here's the final resting place of thr trucks. With any luck, the next time the black truck moves, it won't be black anymore...
...TO BE CONTINUED WHEN I GET ANOTHER DAY OFF WORK...
DAY 1:
Had shell towed to friend's back yard. His neighbor's got horses! Yay!
Smelly fly-attracting bastards. Who'd have thought you can have corrals in the middle of Scottsdale. I feel like I'm working at littleblackpsycho's house again (were I was constantly being attacked by random farm animals while working on his Sy).
Luckily I ingeniously rigged my blue truck together with nothing but zip ties and bungee cords. It allowed for an effortless F1-style teardown.
I had every body panel and cladding piece off the truck in literally 5 minutes. It was quite impressive to watch, I should have video taped it. The body and bed were unbolted from the frame almost as easily. Here's the truck about 20 minutes after I parked it.
I laid everything out carefully and covered it to keep anything from damaging the parts. They already had a crap ton of dust on them anyways. Oh well, I still have to take the truck to the painter when i'm done for buffing and some repainting, so I'm not too worried about dust/scratches so much.
Random cladding shots...
So after the quick teardown it was back home to start getting the black truck as torn-down as possible but still be able to drive it. I ripped the passenger seat out and took the door panels out before calling it a day...
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DAY 2:
I continued on the teardown of the black truck. I started with the front and took off the fender cladding, bumper cover, and grill cover. I loosely put the grill cover back on just for looks...
Since I'd gone through the dashes of these trucks a bajillion times, taking out the dash went very smoothly. Most importantly, the truck still ran fine with it out.
Just a quick shot while driving. I'm sure that if I really wanted to, I could have shorted out a few contacts and blown in the right air tubes to get A/C to come out of this hose and cool me down, but I figured it wasn't worth the time.
I pulled the truck next to the shell and spent a few minutes planning the order of events to make this a success...
Here's the final resting place of thr trucks. With any luck, the next time the black truck moves, it won't be black anymore...
...TO BE CONTINUED WHEN I GET ANOTHER DAY OFF WORK...
