SurfInferno's Build

your build is coming along great,i see you've gone convertible

 

a true 5lug of fury right here.

 

Thanks! haha yeah it looks pretty funny, right now the roof is tacked on, going to pull it off to do all the final welds.

4 banger FTW

 

Got everything near and in the dash welded up and painted. Put the dash back on, truck still runs (was worried about all the wires in the dash) but my radio does not...hoping its because the doors are off.
Put sound deadener in the foot wells, and got the tubes run from the back to the front.
Tomorrow the goal is to finish the roof, and the rear, then its just a waiting game for PRP to ship the seats and harnesses so i can cage the center of the truck and mount the seats. Hopefully this time next week it will be drivable until i scrounge up enough cash to get the front LTed, caged, and a 4.0 then this beast is complete.

 

Ran out of tubing before I was able to finish the rear X, tomorrow Im making a trip to ventura steel and hopefully come back with enough to finish. All I have left is to finish the rear X, gusset everything, and mount the seats/cage the center, then fully weld everything.

 

Looking good man!!!

 

All I have left to do is, gusset everything, chop the top and weld everything, play with bondo and spray paint, get the seats and mount them and its finally finished.

 

got my seats/harnesses today and did a little gusset work

 

Started work on my truck at 9:30, finished at about 10:30 tonight. Got a ton done today. Fully welded every tube, gusseted pretty much everything, got the tubes connected to the bed cage, made 16 tabs for seats/harnesses, started on the mounts for the seats, and got the cab tacked back on. Here is a picture at about 6:15 before the cab and everything is back together.

 

seat/harness mounts are in, roof is half way welded on, and all thats left is 4 more plates, completely weld the roof, put the sound deadener stuff in, bondo, and paint. Oh and get new windows, the front windshield broke coming out, and the rear windshield broke sometime between 3 days ago and today (my fault for keeping it around the shop). So im going to use lexon for the rear window.

 

Got the cage finished. Painted the interior, bedlined the floor, mounted one seat, and put bondo on the holes. tomorrow im going to try to attempt to sand this bondo stuff, install the rest of everything and then get windows and its done

 

Your rig is so sick, ive always had a soft spot for caged trucks

 

Thnaks man! Im so happy its almost done

 

Ya hurry up and finish it! I want to see this truck back in some sand or something, back in its natural environment haha

 

Haha same here, I cant wait. Hopefully by the end of august I will have the front end done, then another few months have a 4.0 in it

 

oooooo a 4.0 huh? how come you didn't leave it a convertible?

 

Haha I wish I could have but it rains here like 2 days a year or so I'm told

 

2 days a year is it? haha doing better than us, besides nothing wrong with putting a little plastic over the top for temporary cover

 

Looking good so far, Dylan! What are you doing for the front? Still thinking about going with American Motorsports?