2003 Long Travel Double Cab 4x4LongWeiney

Because race truck........!

 

Beyond stoked right now.

 

Made progress by taking out the entire interior. Bought some new PRP seats from Envy Motorsports which I will hopefully be mounting tomorrow. Removed the old stock carpet, it's disgusting and the padding has tons of rust on it so it went in the trash. I bought Second Skin sound deader which I began to lay down on the back wall and rear floor. Tomorrow I'll try to cover the rest of the floor, I covered some holes and re-sealed the seams of the new rear floor so I want that all to dry first.




Glamour shot.


Bought myself a new tool. Been trying to use a shit Crapsman impact for years which is less than worthless.

 

Wow

 

Quality work!

 

Driveshaft!

 

What a pain in the butt. Messed up cutting the hole for the passenger side windshield bar big time. Eventually I'll find another dash for round 2, but it's in for now. I think with round 2 I can move the dash up several inches. Gonna have to figure something out for my gauge cluster, my steering column goes right through where the gauges are supposed to be.

 

Was making tabs to mount my seats and then my new e2000 fuel pump showed up, so I got side tracked. Pulled all the old fuel line out and started running the new stuff. Got the vent line run, need to get a push lock fitting for the other side of the pump, it's standard Ford.

 

Got the truck running finally! Took one step forward but like 6 steps back in the process. Broke off one of the studs for the fuel pump power, so I had to go buy a new one. Ordered the one I broke off Amazon so I have a replacement coming in a few days time for a spare now. I also removed the rear wire harness off the truck and removed all of the wires and plugs which went to the nonexistant EVAP equipment. I wrapped the wires in expandable loom and swapped the massive old plug for an 8 pin Deutsch connector. One of these days I really need to remove the body harness and remove the rest of the wires I don't need. This bit was easy enough it gave me the confidence to tackle a bigger project.

Realized also why my battery used to always go flat when the truck would sit: There's no positive cable from the alternator to the battery! I bought the truck "wired" and running so I never noticed it before. Ordered 0 gauge black and red cable, plus a 150 amp breaker to get more power.

Click for video

 

Slowly but surely its getting there.

I finished wiring the batteries and ran a positive wire from the alternator through a 150 amp breaker to charge both batteries. I ran cable to hook up both of the batteries and found a spot to mount my battery switch that'll be easy to get to for now. I do not like the concept of a big power cable running through my cab, so all of it is outside the cab.



Next I moved on to mounting the brake and shifter components. I ran new brake line from my master cylinder to a residual pressure valve, into my CNC cutting brake, a proportioning valve, and a line lock. I removed the stock shifter and floor plate, and cut a solid plate to cover the hole where the stock shifter used to be. I used that plate to mount my cutting brake, its in a spot which is convenient and easy to reach from the steering wheel. The Winters shifter is stuffed down between the seats. I ordered a longer cable, the included 5ft cable is 2 feet too short.



All that's left is installing the new cable and bleeding the brakes. I still need to find the transmission control relay wires I need to hook up my RADesigns shifter to, but that's not a priority.

 

Drove it around the block for the first time

 

New deep dish MPI steering wheel

 

Remounted my dash so my stock gauges fit. Moved it up a little over an inch, and forward some too. Nice to have some gauges again.

 

My favorite part is the turn signal stalk location and the extra empty fuel gauge!

I start my #bestgenDCLB swap this month. Definitely not to this or Tommy's extent.

 

Digging the shifter placement

 

haha thanks! Fuel gauge will get hooked up soon hopefully. I have a fuel sender in my cell, but need an adapter to get it to work right with all the electronics. and since I have an aftermarket steering column I can't easily mount my turn signal stalk. I want to just use some toggle switches for the lights and turn signals and get rid of the stalk.

 

Got bored on my way back from lunch and tried to find somewhere to flex the back end a little bit.

 

what the WB after the stretch? did you match the +12ish over the xtracab?

 

Long. It's built to fit the normal length bedsides.