Aleu - The Rebuild of a 1980 Pickup

Awesome! It's coming together nicely!

 

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates in the last few months, been busy with holidays and dealing with stupid overseas shit (not happening....I hate people). BUT, I've gotten a great bit done however. Steering stabilizer has been installed, the new RUF pack has been put together; works awesome since I was bottoming out my pitman arm on the 1 set of leafs lmao; but I will need to get another set and replace the driver set since that whole side is STILL leaning. The truck has some crazy ass flex and since I had my front DS made BEFORE doing the full RUF pack.....my DS is too short and I cant fully flex or the drive shaft pops apart lmao. Also put a flat pitman arm on, might not need the flat one since I had to grind down the bolt just to clear the frame, may end up going to a 3/4 drop rather than flat. It works for now though. then of course got the exhaust cut and welded up. I originally wanted a shop to weld the header up since it was the only thing that was 304 stainless and everything else is mild steel. Ended up not having the tubing size I needed, so I said fuck it and bought my own tank of trimix and small spool of stainless wire. Got the header bashed and welded up so it clears the frame and runs the way I want it. Hangers in as well, everything turned out a lot better than I was expecting, she sound pretty good too! I have 0 gauge wire coming in along with terminals so I can relocate the battery to the bed as well. Going to do some offroad testing soon, so I will need to ratchet down the battery so i doesnt fall out haha

List of things that STILL need to be done:
- Battery relocation to the bed
- Mount Fuse box
- Finish sealing the cab up (water when raining still gets in somehow)
- Bump stops
- lengthen the front DS (I had a spare 1" spacer laying around that is helping atm)
- ARB locker and onboard air (I really dont like how this lockrite locker drives)
- finish my tunnel so its not a gaping hole lmao
- do something with the dash, either custom made or something
- I want to swap to a fuel cell instead of using this stock tank

Pretty sure there's more I'm forgetting but that is whats on my mind now haha

 

I just went to a flat pitman arm too. Had to trim the bolt past the cotter pin hole. I used red lock tite as it’s not a bolt you want to lose

 

oh boy haha, yeah thats not a bolt you want to lose lmao

 

I went away from the drop arm due to it making contact to the leafs on full stuff. Now the limit is the ifs bolt, but that’s a stronger contact point. It’s bumped to protect it but bump stops can fail.

 

ohhhh I see, yeah my issue is my front driveshaft doesnt have enough slip iirc, at least with my hoist, it popped apart before full droop haha

 

move been running a square drive shaft for a couple years. Been working well. I had my rear done by Tom woods. I’ll have them do my front once it’s time

 

yeah I need to look into them, my front is a marlin crawler one, it doesn't have the most travel, but i mean, it works for now....haha

:0 more updates to come tomorrow sometime!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp_xNPqyog4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH3f85XMBms

 

Chris it looks great and sounds amazing. Job well done

 

Nice!

"He's giving it no gas at all" lol

 

Thanks! I'm happy it went as well as it did, I was going to relocate my battery today and post some more stuff...but I woke up super super late and cleaned the house instead lmao, so I'm going to do all of this tomorrow haha

yeah that 2nd video was 0 throttle lmao, let off the clutch and that's what she wrote! haha

 

Looking good!

 

AWESOME

 

Happy Bday bro!

 

thanks man!

 

Hope it's a great one

 

Is today your birthday?!?! If so, happy birthday. It's my birthday too! Crazy.

 

yup! lmao, Feb 10 of 94 haha, happy birthday too you too lol

 

Dang. Thought you were younger. I mean you act much younger than 26