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So I have been thrashing. Got the big block mounted into frame with my own mounts. Threw the rad support cab and front fenders on to see how the exhaust situation will work. Thinking I may just go fenderwell headers from an A body. Then possibly do some custom inner fenders. Still debating...

No engine. And suspension disassembly. Frame repair I then sandblasted the entire frame with my small princess auto (harbour freight) sandblaster. What a pain in the ass.!! Picked up a can of Zero Rust, similar to por15 but half the price. Started to paint frame components. Here I slowly...

So after I got everything apart and while lifting the cab off the chassis on to the forks my fingers got in the way. 15 stitches later and a fractured ring finger I went back and finished the lift with one hand.

So this all started as my daughter saying she wanted a small truck. May have been many years of me saying it. So we found this 96 dakota 2wd reg cab short box with a leaky 3.9l auto with unknown mileage. (Dash broke) for $400 ... I have someone that wants the 3.9l for his 84 d50. It has some...

Door shortening to match the previous owners chop

Oh and dont mind the nose of the 96 reg cab dakota. Its waiting for a 383 BB swap :-D

Working on body work and structures. Slow tedious job, but we making progress.

Here is where we are at now. Have the internals mainly complete. Now is to build the lower hammer portion. Drive mechanisms and the adjuster

Machining has begun. Bearings waiting for assembly. First eccentric made. Cutting a rad on pieces. Been working on these parts in my free time.

Found a troy bilt rototiller for sale on the side of the road. I scooped it up to use this summer. The girlfriend and I have been doing our own garden the last 2 years. Last summer we canned over 600 lbs of tomatoes. Turned them into spaghetti sauce, while tomatoes and even tomato soup. The...

So I have been tinkering around with many things and got my brain into overdrive. I built my powered bead roller. Also made some lower anvils for an english wheel. Now the brain went to places no brain should ever go. I decided I needed a challenge. So I been looking up pullmax nibblers...

Been working on this bead roller. The motor caught fire so waiting on a replacement motor now. *cursing ebay deal* Also doing some english wheel anvils. I picked up a harbour freight frame, with the top wheel from the local classifieds for 50 bucks. Did not come with the lower anvils. So...

So I am no electrical brain child. I have 110 volts 15 amp wall socket. I have a universal 110vac/dc motor. 60/50 hz Full load of 1.1 amps. Now the confusion. I want to run this motor from my wall socket. I am not very smart with electrical but I can hook up wires. Can I just hook the wires...

Side project. Took a harbour freight bead roller and made it decorative, beefed it up and added a motor. Waiting for a drum switch that's stuck with the striking canada postal workers. Started doing some body work today. Had to replace the wheel wells. It's just the beginning of the...

A bit of an update. Things are coming along slowly. Working on a side project at this time frame but it goes with the build ;-)

Some chassis mockup to get a visual

The welding began. Most of the frame rail together. I ran out of welding wire so I switched focus to the nailhead. 3 stuck pistons 1 seized wrist pin and random stuck bolts. I got it to a bare block. Power washed the gum off of it today. Have to return focus back to the frame rails so I can...

Gone for a cruise. Also our green energy program

Looks like I am going nailhead. Picked up a 401 nailhead with a trans. No plans to use the slushbox. Looks like I may have to make my own scattersheild to mate my a833 to the nailer.