Anticipating converter for trans to be completed this month & trans shipped back.
After cleaning up, gonna haul my SPL catalog outside to the garage :yum:

5/9/21, something will be done to the Z today…..time to get the show on the road :ugh2:

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Spent a few hours thisafternoon removing things from the back.
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Easing along with project; my shoulders are aching a bit :ugh2:

I saw on SOHO's Instagram feed where they were shipping manifolds/upper plenums. Looks good.
Your shoulders are a sign you haven't done this kind of work in a while. Wait until it's your forearms, just from using a ratchet...


Kirk B.

Nah, dude tears down firetrucks and big rigs all day long. He's just getting old. :icon17:

:iagree:

Small world. I used to work for a partner company to E-ONE in Ocala, Florida.
We provided foam systems and monitor/nozzle packages for their trucks.


Kirk B.

I mostly work on meat & potatoes, powertrain & drivetrain….try to learn those guy’s the proper ways to perform repairs. :ugh2:

E-one seems like they either sold out or bought out someone…we have Pierce,Rosenbauer,KME (Keep Mechanix Employeed) :icon17:

Yeah, it's been 15 years since I worked for Williams. Hella fun job, tho. Big boys playing with big squirt guns, lol.


Kirk B.

Managed to get all 5 bushings out yesterday, took about 4-hrs :tup:
Gonna clean & prep things today for installation :ugh2:

Had to make a few cuts in the rearward 2-subframe one’s (pictured out on left) … as they were :icon14:
As I couldn’t use my fancy press or puller :ugh2:

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A little more progress

Somebody has been chasing skirts and not getting any work done. This may be worse than the garage build. Get to work dude.

In his defense, they're FAST skirts.....


Kirk B.

Fify

How’s it going buddy, any updates?

We need to get you on Discord my friend.

I know, I know :icon14:

Twin pump assembly mounted & tested.
Tank is back in with new hoses.
Subframe assembly is back in.
In the process of cleaning up & servicing the 3.3 diff & Quaife unit for installation…gotta drill out stubs for fitment of the DSS axles.
Rear springs dua in this week for the midlinks.
Been playing around with a Chic a bit.
Brakes should be in sometime next week.
I’ll post up some pics by the weekend.
Goal is to have engine on table & assembling all components back to it.
Bolting up trans/converter & assembling the twice turbo’s after the Labor Day get together :tup:
Not as much wrench time as I’d like, but making some progress :tiphat:

Haha, you just wrenching on something else!

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:nutswinger:

This should be moved to the last thing to do on your list. Otherwise, you will never get it finished.

LOL, I keep telling him that. Next thing ya know the car and all the parts will be sold........

:icon18: how true

I seen this happened sooooo many times over the years. :rofl2:

Joby in 10 years :rofl2:

:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

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More pics coming later; ARP bolts should be here soon-for attaching stub shafts to adapters for DSS Axles :tup:
A little clearance was needed underneath for the (-8) fuel lines :ugh2:
Pumps working great, flow 9qts. in 30sec at 12.5V :eek:
Hopefully have azz end sewed up by the weekend :hello:

Now your working like a boss!

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Looks like you’re making good progress :tup:

Got to stay after him or he will loose focus. Did you guys see that truck??????

It's not so much the truck as it's the split-tail shaking her backside in his face....:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

You missed the joke. It flew right over your head. Did you see that truck????