So now for whats in mind for it aside from putting the fleetside bed on.
For starters, the whole exhaust system is getting removed and redone. Catted headers (that i may or may not gut) to an x pipe and im still unsure of the mufflers, im thinking dynomax bullets (like what was on it originally) with turn downs dumped before the rear axle.
With that, since the bed is off, new fuel tank and straps, since the old ones are hanging by a thread and the current tank has a few pinholes in it.
New rear brake lines, mainly because i dont feel like fishing them behind the tank when the new one is back on.
As shown in the pictures in my post above the carrier bearing cross member was rotted out completely, as a matter of fact when i went to go put the new one on, the bolts were tight enough to where when i was breaking them free, the old cross member bent like a pretzel.
Also fixing the cab/bed mount. Going to put my welding skills to test with that one but gotta learn somewhere.
Down the line once this is all done, im pulling the poor 4l80e out to be rebuilt that should have been done 40k miles ago, and utilizing the shift kit that is still sitting in the box from when this whole project was officially started. To put in perspective how bad it is, id rather smell 200k mile differential fluid then smell the fluid in that trans.
Im sure im missing a lot of information on what im doing but this is all i can think of as of right now
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