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Well I finally got the engine removed. I didn't get
it done by the end of my last working season, the snow came and it
took until this summer to get back at the truck. I spent the winter
rebuilding two t5 transmissions. The engine finally came out after
attacking the front motor mount with every tool I had. I can't
believe I worked that long on it and didn't take any pictures.
Now that I have the engine out, I started looking
at what on the front end needed doing before starting to put the front
end back together. I started stripping the remaining components in
front of the firewall. Well a funny thing happened on the way to the
plan. It changed. I decided the right way to do this was to go
straight down to the frame and get that right before starting the
rebuild.
So I decided to keep stripping the frame. Once I
had the front suspension and transmission out. It was as
simple as removing the fenders, running boards, four bolts that hold
the bed and six bolts that hold the cab.
After that the only things that remained were the
rear axle, various fuel and brake lines and a couple miscellaneous
things. So this working season is soon coming to an end with the
plan of taking the frame out to be sand blasted and painted. I will
then have a platform for rebuilding.
In the next segment I hope to
have pictures of the disc brake conversion for the front and the
dual master cylinder conversion.
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