lol lol...........I do have a few spares if you need them....... Or matches its whatever

 

are those street scene mirrors the electric conversion ones?

 

They are electric Street Scene mirrors...not sure about the conversion aspect of it?

 

Yesterday I ran up to Wilwood and got taken care of Royally!!
The guys up there are great, friendly and pretty cool to deal with. Dave was there too and we got a quick tour of their shop and the place is absolutely positively HUGEEEE. My god I had no idea how many brakes these guys made. I thought they were a Mom and Pop place but they sell about 500 brake kits a day and they also have some contracts with some big name auto manufacturer's that I wasn't aware of.
Anyways, I showed them to damage to my studs and they took them off my hands and gave me these instead!!

Brand new Caliper mounting brackets, one of them wasn't even damaged or messed up but they gave me two new ones just so that they would match!! They also loaded me up with tons of bolts and nuts that I did not need but they told me just in case! Very cool people to deal with.
Thanks Tarrant!


So moving on...with all the right hardware I got busy today and finished installing the brakes!! Yesterday I stopped by Big Dave's shop on the way back from Wilwood's and he was a big help as usual and he let me use his vice and some of his tools to bend the brackets off the stock brake lines. So I'll be able to re-use them after-all!! I still need to do a few bends in them to get them exactly where I want but I think It'll work out great.

I ran into a problem with the passenger rear hub, for some reason the hat and rotor had a pretty bad wobble. Wasn't sure what it was at first but I installed the hat + rotor backwards...


and that's when it became clear as to what the problem was...there was some rust build up on the face of the hub that wouldn't let the hat + rotor sit flush. A hand grinder and some 60 grit sand paper later and all was good in Kermit-ville.


Since I was in the general vicinity I decided to install the ladder bar as well. Pretty good job by Henry of designing and fabricating it.




It's fully adjustable so I left in about mid stud so I can go either way when I start driving around on it. I think for maximum effectiveness at the track the bottom bar is supposed to be parallel to the ground...or is it the top one? Not sure but I guess I'll play with it and see what's what.

I figured since I wasn't gonna use this, that I would pull it out. It's an airpump used to run cleaner emissions, helpful during smog tests.



Guess I'll just put it on a shelf for the time being, might have to re-install it at a later date.

Figured I was good to put the rear tires back on. The back of rims looked pretty disgusting...


So I gave them a bit of a bath...


And threw them on...




I didn't bother cleaning the front of the wheels, I'll do that when the truck is up and running. I am curious to see how this is all gonna look once the truck is back down on the ground sitting at ride height, hope it looks
That's it for today, tomorrow hope to clear out the engine bay and prep it for surgery. Won't get my flex plate or converter for another 4-5 days so I'm kinda waiting on that. Maybe I'll start stripping the wax off the frame and repainting it?

 

Thanks Kevin. In the last week I've taken these brakes on and off about half a dozen times so if I do go to the track it won't take me longer than 15-20 minutes to pull them off and plug the line. That way I can run whatever tires I want. My front brakes should be able to stop me just find!


I'll trade you some rear brakes for your tiny insignificant intake!!

 

yea it was cool hanging out yesterday... truck is looking great, i like the ladder bars too.

deff strip the wax, you'll be thankful later.

 

if you have anymore info about those ladder bars that would be great!
I'm needing to fab up something like that for my truck.. Caltracs hang down too low for me.

 

just read all 24 pages......subscribed!

 

Brakes look really good on there

 

Like what kind of info? My friend built it from scratch, I'm sure he's lurking on here so if there's a specific question he might be able to help out.

So you read 20 pages of me BS'ing and getting nothing done, 2 pages of me breaking things and 2 pages of me ******* a football...
Hope it was entertaining. I once read a 430 page build on LS1tech, that was alot of reading!!!