A small screwdriver in one of the notches and tap it around with a hammer.

The Pirate Ship's windows got tinted yesterday. Big difference! Nothing too radical.. just needed to keep the heat out. Should make the A/C work a LOT better.

Yep, what a difference window tint makes. A/C is ice cold. Makes for very comfortable driving, even with triple digit ambient temps.

Got the rear window done this afternoon and re-tinted the driver's door (screwed it up first time around).

My list of things to do is getting narrowed down:

1. Tranny fluid change
2. Build a front Driveshaft with CV
3. Rear suspension spring retainers

I have the same list...

Tcase gears, and lockers. Nothing new there.

I may upgrade some steering components and get some chromo shafts for the front axle.

Note, I said MAY.

4-link the rear axle, new body mounts, new front bumper, custom offroad trailer.

That'll take you a week. What will you do after that?

Get a second job to pay for it all?

My list is rear bumper, rock sliders and armor.

Must Have:

SAS (Got the Axle and ordering kit next week)
Rebuild sliders
Change Seals in rear axle

Would Be nice:

Rebuild rear bumper.

The past week or two have just been hell for my truck. My driver side manifold is slightly warped now from driving through a puddle. So thats makes the truck sound like its ripping ass for about a mile until the manifold warms up. Then, one of the relays for my Hella lights froze up causing the lights to stay on which in turn caused a small fire in the bed of my truck. My mag lite, brand new floor mats, a towel, and tie down strap are now crispy and unusable. That really doesnt piss me off. What pisses me off is the windows were closed on the camper shell, so all the soot from the fire coated just about everything back there. This is definately one way to limo-tint some windows if anybody wanted to do that. Kinda screwed up some paint on the outside of the truck as well. My optima battery had to be trickle charged too.

So other than that, I just gotta replace some leaf springs and do a quick SAS job and I'm good to go

Oh and a motor mount.

Wait.....what?? How does a stuck relay start a fire in the bed? They should be able to be left on until the battery dies.
Am I missing something? Were the lights aimed at a magnifying glass in the bed of the truck?

Underwear!

One of the lights was hooked up and not mounted, sitting in the bed of the truck. Was gonna mount them this weekend, but I guess I can't do that now. I think something (like the towel) might have flopped on top of the light, got it hot enough, and lit it up. Not really sure how they started on fire, but they sure as hell did. Gonna get the power washer out tonight and spray all the crap outta the bed. Then cover the burned metal with a good coat of primer after i clean it up real good.

oy vey

burning down a truck = bad.

fix that shit man.

The truck lives on, just a lot of cleanup work to do in the bed. I'm picking up my battery tomorrow too.

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One of the lights was hooked up and not mounted, sitting in the bed of the truck.

Note to self...


Glad you still have a truck.


And a house.

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One of the lights was hooked up and not mounted, sitting in the bed of the truck

I need to add that to my boy scout hand book on how to start a fire with no matches

You know you've done something real dumb when the Goat is giving you crap.

Especially when all of his words are spelled correctly,