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Re: Body mounts Good luck with that... It's going to be next-to-impossible to enlarge the hole with a hole saw, unless you have some method I'm not familiar with. I guess you could weld a piece of metal to the flange and use that as a guide, but I didn't have that luxury. I don't know what...

Re: Body mounts When I did my body swap I got the energy suspension poly body mounts, and they fit everywhere except the rear cab mount flanges (the ones that have a large bracket and are raised considerably). The hole is smaller for some reason. A die grinder will open up the holes so they...

Re: December SyTy.org TOTEM *taking submissions!* Re: December SyTy.org TOTEM *taking submissions!* ^^^ WINNER!!!! :D I don't know, Mike. You might want to hold out for truck of the year with that damn thing... Now, are you judging on what we see, or are you taking into account the whole...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! Awesome! By the time you're ready I should have the lifts installed... :D

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! Well...everything kind-of came to a halt the past couple weeks with the truck. I found a piece of property near me with a huge shop/house building on it. I decided to buy it and turn it into a car-nut's dream house. The main reason I was contemplating selling...

Re: Smoooooke I had an extremely similar problem with oil leaking in that exact area. There is a bracket that holds up the oil cooler lines right next to the power steering pump. The moron that had the truck before neglected to connect it, and the metal oil line rubbed against the crossover...

Re: Smoooooke Although the massive leaking could be an easily-solved problem, the big click, massive blowby, and big-smoke startup lead me to think you might have gernaded a piston. I had similar issues with my first truck. It suddenly smoked a ton under load, so I took the motor apart. I...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! The color is from Lexus, it's called Intesa Blue Pearl, and it was used on their IS300 line a couple years back. I fell in love with the color and had to have it on the truck. The Sonic Blue that was mentioned came on Ford trucks, and is close, but a little...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! I got my lights and door mirrors in today. I mocked them all up, but I'm still going to have the mirrors painted blue, since they look dumb in black. Here's what the truck looks like so far...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! All my new lights and door mirrors are scheduled to arrive tomorrow, so if they show up in a timely manner, I'll put them in and take some photos. I haven't had too much time to work on it lately because the tranny in my DD Oldsmobile took a crap on me two days...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! I did swap the entire dash over to the blue cab. I worked on it for the last two days, but I didn't take any photos yet because I really didn't completely reach any landmark achievements as of yet. I put in the dash and gages, put on all the cladding, installed...

Re: Sy in Scottsdale Come to the Pavilions this Saturday and I'll show you a Sy in great condition. ;)

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! Day 7: No pics today, as nothing drastically changed appearance-wise... I ran all the necessary wires and vacuum hoses, hooked up the battery, and drove it home today! Some small issues: The trottle cable/linkage is a bit sticky. I had to really pay...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! Day 6: Rented the lift again after lunch to do the final moving. Took off the blue cab and carefully placed it on the black frame, then put the black cab back on the other frame. Put both beds on the trucks and bolted them down. I then started getting...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! Day 5: Well, it was in the schedule to do the remaining cab maneuvers, but I grossly underestimated how long it would take to make the frame look nice. My friend and I sanded, and sanded, and sanded, and sanded, etc. Three hours later, we masked off everything...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! You know how I get when I fire up the pressure washer. :) I cleaned the frame, sprayed off the blue cab, cleaned the concrete, wrote my name in the dirt, etc.

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! Day 4: Put the trucks up on concrete so we could wheel around the cabs with the lift. I rented a 1000-lb. 10-ft. material lift for $60/day (it's due back at 3 tomorrow). I then tied up the front part with some climbing rope. It worked brilliantly. It took...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! In short-answer form...no. We threw the drivetrain swap idea around a lot, but due to everything I wanted on the black truck, it would have ended up as more work in the long run. A lot of the parts in the black truck are new (steering arm, ZQ8 box, new...

Re: Sy body swap has commenced! DAY 4: Continued teardown. Luckily I had help. Nick (nick041881) showed up and we just started ripping everything off that appeared to be connected to the cab. Nick decided to break the heater box instead of undo an unseen bolt. Luckily I have a spare...

Re: Onboard computer to replace Laptops???? Re: Onboard computer to replace Laptops???? I have a shuttle PC built for my truck once it goes back together. I tore apart my 7" portable DVD player and tried to make it work, but I'm totally stuck with what wires do what. It's a shame, since the...