The truck looks good man. How do you like those shocks? Have the same Hotchkis kit your truck has (with a 1'' lift block in the rear). Really like the wheels too. Nice work.

 

the wheels look kind of weird but they grew on me a little as i scrolled through your thread. you did a really good job on polishing that thing

you picked a great DD imho

 

Yeah they're different that's for sure. More typical on an old car, Halibrand's are few and far between on modern stuff but they give it a little old school flavor. The bed has some vintage style stripe work as well, I'll take a pic of it. The wheels are only 17s so they can look a little small.
Been thinking about a nice set of OEM 20s, but I'm too broke with all the other stuff!

@Steve
I like them, but they're a little stiff. It rides like my ol' man's S-10 Xtreme now. It's not bad, but just stiff. It had blown-out Edlebrocks before so I can't really compare. I'm not sure how a Hotchkis truck is supposed to ride. What shocks are you running and how's the ride? I've heard good and bad about the Belltechs but they were cheap.

Thanks!

 

I'm running Rancho RS5000's now. The ride is a little stiff but it definitely handles better. I have the rear sway bar on it too. I'm thinking about getting some Rancho RS9000X's eventually.

 

Since most of the stepper motors in the instrument cluster were cooked I sent the cluster out to be rebuilt, have all new motors/bulbs added and a trans temp gauge. I thought about white or silver-faced gauges but decided I'd keep it simple and keep it stock.

Not that it matters but they cracked the top part of the clear lens cover. It's so far up I'll never see it with the bezel on, but I certainly didn't send it to them that way. On a positive note, everything works, including the new trans-temp gauge.

Here's a quick pic:


Bit by bit she's on a road to recovery I suppose. At this rate it'll take forever!

 

Very nice little project you got going there, you said you added a Transmission Gauge ? i'm curious about this do you have more information on this ? i' dont really want to swap out my who cluster for a denali or escalade if i could keep mine. Thanks

 

isn't that an HD cluster? My cluster doesn't have the red blocks on the RPM gauge.

 

That is an HD Cluster. Thought it was a diesel cluster but I think diesel tach only went to 5k. Nice to have a trans temp gauge in the cluster.

 

Wait a minute...so this isn't a stock gauge cluster in my '03? I need to see if I have pictures of the cluster before I sent it in. I hope there wasn't a mix-up and I got the wrong cluster...can anyone verify?

 

My '03 came with red blocks on the tach but it they started after 5K..