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    ChrisCo's Cow

    I'd planned to pick up a spare ever since I did the conversion, but just never got around to it. Now I'll pick up a couple more to have around...at least until I manage to find time/space/$$$ to start working on shoe-horning Carhart's ol' 5VZ under the hood lol I haven't checked yet -- you have...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    What's that? Me getting it out of the yard or the GM ignition module taking a dump? :redneck: How the heck are you doing these days, Rix?
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    I might do that one of these days...after I get it running again. It stalled on me while using it out in the yard today, and refuses to start. I'm thinking the GM ignition module took a dump lol
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Let's see. Since I last posted an update... Sold my old house (almost two years to the date of listing it), my daughter got married (the day after closing on the sale), I helped son-in-law start a landscape and tree care business, tried to focus on buying a new home (lost out a few times and...
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    Yum... Tacos

    Must be a TG kit thing. I've don't recall anyone ever having to swap out the rad for a SAS on a Taco before. What's the reason for the shorter rad (genuine curiosity)? Was it interfering with the steering or something? Is it my beer goggles, or is the new (shorter) one also wider? It looks like...
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    Yum... Tacos

    WAS being the keyword. At some point he stopped giving a damn on keeping it clean, and now it's bashed to **** now. Last I'd heard, it hadn't moved farther than the driveway in years. Yet another "If you can't buy it..." scenario.
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    Yum... Tacos

    I've worked on fixing at least one of 'em that was done around here back then... Sloppy work to say the least... Not that I'm entirely happy with the swap we did on Rob's rig, but it was light years better than what I "got" to fix. I'm trying to remember if we had to do anything special with...
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    Yum... Tacos

    :yawn: SASing a Taco is so 2003. :redneck: Looking good, Crash!
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    It's been a while since I've updated this thread...not that I've done a whole lot since the last update... Since my last update, I still haven't ordered a new rear driveshaft, nor have I finished the cage...but, I have gotten some work in on it here and there. Shortly after my last post, I...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Thanks! Is is one of my favorite hiding places lol :eeek: I'd build my own if I wanted this kind of quality. Just curious -- what was it for? Did you ask them WTF?
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Thanks. I wanted this thing done 7 years ago. I'm actually shooting for a light shake down run at Tahuya sometime (probably late) February. I've still got a lot to do before that, though. Any recommendations on where to get a rear drive shaft built? I'm somewhat expecting to call Tom Woods or...
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    The new "Crashfab"

    I don't remember if I've already said it or not, but the shop looks great, Mike.
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    There, all current up to here. Now crash can stop popping over to that other forum asking if it's done yet :haha:
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Dammit! Just as I'm getting the Cow to a point that I *think* it might go wheeling sometime in the next couple of years (house hunting is taking priority right now), someone goes and leaves this in my garage... Yes, this is yet another long term project...but the Cow WILL wheel before this...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Let the Cow out of its stall long enough to turn it around and pull it right back in to the stall to be decapitated... I was expecting to find a complete blow-out on the head gasket...but, oddly, it seemed fine. This is where it was leaking: The corresponding mating surface on the head is...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Welp, there went this year's "bonus". Just ordered up a doubler kit and a couple of little odds and ends from Marlin, and a clutch kit from RockAuto. The transmission/t-case combo has now cost me more than half of the rig's original purchase price lol Last thing I need now is a clutch fork...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    There's plenty of room to pull it out of there, but you have to get up in the bed to do it. Here's the best pic I can find of how much room there is: I am considering changing the whole setup, though. The more I see it, the less comfortable I am with how low it hangs. I'm thinking the spare...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Got to spend a few hours out in the shop yesterday. Zipped out some plates to mount my tail lights (I'm really diggin' the plazzz!). I was wanting to mount the lights in between the tubes, but the gap ended up a bit smaller than I'd planned on. No problem... I'll "french" the plates into the...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    Spent a couple of hours out in the shop this evening... I think I've about got the pattern down where I like it for this punkin'. <-- Taking this back after reviewing the pics... Started with .077 (the original shim alone). Drive @ 077: Coast @ 077: Using Zuk's page as a reference, It...
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    ChrisCo's Cow

    I got to spend a little time yesterday and today dinking around in the shop. I was tired of rolling the spare out of my way every time I needed get into the cabinet or toolbox it was leaned against...so I moved on to building the tire carrier. I didn't really like how the fuel cell was so open...

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