Slodgetto's Green Dragon 4x4 Conversion Build

Thanks guys! Just got home from work and am just about to go finish cutting the left side, then hopefully get things tacked together....

 

This will be awesome. I always liked the look of a dovetailed 1st gen!

 

I do to, but I never really liked the look of the tail lights since they get sort of a cross-eyed look... ya know? So the goal is to do this and keep those lights pointing straight back. That should also halp the tailgate fit back into place better, so that's nice...

 

Didn't get any progress done tonight, but here are some pictures from last night

Finished cutting/grinding for the dovetail and put a couple tacks on her just to keep it in place for now..






Yes, my tacks suck, but you try tacking sheet metal with a 110v stick welder!!!




And this is how I went to work this morning!

 

Duct Tape FTW? hahahahaha

 

Haha, nice!

Your tacks that suck are better than mine

Btw, probably a stupid question but how far back did you cut for the dovetail? I'm assuming all the way back but for some reason I'm wondering if you stopped at wheel wells?

 

Looks good. Excuse my ignorance, but what are you doing with the tailgate once you dovetail the rear? Won't the tailgate not fit anymore?

 

You do the same thing to the tailgate as you did the bed. Cut a section out and weld it back together

 

Gotcha. Lot of work!

 

ahahaha lies! Just about everyother tack is burned through! Thinking about just getting a harbour freight 110v MIG to finish up.....

Not stupid, man, I cut all the way to about half an inch before it started going vertical on the cab side. It just starts getting pretty narrow at the wells since I'm only taking 4" of each side...

Thanks! Jon is correct, I'll basically just take an 8" wide section out of the tail gate and weld it back together with shortened cables on the inside and anything I have to do to make it work.

 

If your still looking for a color scheme I found this...






Might do it to mine

 

Man just drive that beast down to socorro and we'll get her all welded up

Looking good though, you're way better with a stick welder than I am, I feel like a retard using those things

 

You can come on over to the house too and we can get it welded up.

 

Thanks, man, I appreciate that. and I wish I could!!! Just too long of a drive.... We'll have to go wheeling or something if I come down!

Thanks, man! I may just do that.... Get everything on held on by a couple tacks, and then we can use a mig for the rest of it.... I will let you know!

 

Do you ever go back and look at that picture when u first bought it and ask yourself wtf have I done?

 

YES!!! My mom and I were actually just talking about that yesterday.... MY TACO USED BE SO CUTE!!! lol

 

Yup.. and that was even before I chopped up the bed!! lol

 

Haha yeah, every time my brother looks at it he says it's retarded and is becoming less and less useful. After I bobbed the bed I told him I'd start calling it "the short bus" just for him.

The only comment my uncle said after seeing it was "you'll never be able to sell that thing."

 

You do know its gonna be super hard to bob it on your truck cause of the plastic.