Thanks... I have a lot more going on with the engine soon... just things take a lot of hours to make happen.

 

Oh yeah. This is gonna be a clean one!

 

Just doing dirty work...

Made a stand to transport the engine to the shop to get the A/C Bracket and lower idler bracket made.


Then just a bunch of welding filling in un-needed holes in the frame



Also started working on the dash. Had to fill in a few holes and tomorrow I will be grinding the welds and cut the large oval and A/C vent holes.


Got the holes ground down and the new A/C Vent holes cut and the hole cut for the VHX gauges

Billet Specialties A/C Vents

Center hole cut

Dash fit into the cab..... Yes I know the damn tahoe is dirty!


Should be slinging filler on it tomorrow and have it in primer on Monday

 

Very cool project!

 

Fitting the AC back in the cab



Dash had filler on it now and awaiting primer





George and I Started working on the front AC Compressor bracket.

Just roughed in




Got it all finished tonight




A bit of sweat equity

 

Get the bracket all bolted back up and started on the rear bracket.




Rear bracket from start to finish






Got the Dash, front panhard bar, and drag link sealed, primed, and painted






Engine back in the Chassis


Also got the harness and pigtails back from BP-Automotive. He installed the PCM Pins and pinned the PCM connectors for me.

 

So close yet so far away! Sure does look awesome!

 

what do you do for a living that gives you so much time to wrench on the project? atleast it seems like a lot of time invested in a short period of time. maybe i'm just slow haha. great work BTW.

 

I work for a hot rod shop... So pretty easy to take a small bit of time out of the day to get my own stuff done. The rear bracket took about an hour to build total. The paint stuff was done over the weekend.

The fun is about to really start as I'm ordering parts tonight and bringing the truck out to the shop in a week or 2. Will be building the following

Headers, exhaust, fuel tank, radiator, and mounting the master cylinder. I actually have more done than what this thread shows I just upload updates every so often.

Once that is done it is being pulled all the way apart and the frame is getting a fresh paint job, which I will also be doing.

 

ahhh. I couldn't work at a hot rod shop daily. I have to take a break from my projects because they **** me off so much at times. couldn't imagine doing it daily. a little tough to walk away. then dealing with retarded customers on top. no thanks.