any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

BigBadSmoosh

Picking fights on I-65 since 2013
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and i made a nice lil mount for the remote tranny filter, it fits nicely under the battery tray..

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yes thats primer on the fender.. gotta get rid of surface rust somehow. :)

so anyone else's truck look like this a few weeks before they drive a few thousand miles?
 

NecroWolf

lost marbles member
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

i thought they were supposed to look like that
 

qbnkiller

Conflaguration Specialist
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

...yup....lotsa shit still outta place...still hunting ECM issues....
 

Captain Morgan

Moderated User
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

I just pulled mine out yesterday for the first time in who knows when.... had 2 flat tires, 1 dead battery and vines growing up through the grill and in the engine compartment, haha
 

MikeRenz

not stock
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

I can beat that w/ both of mine - although i'm not taking a truck :(

Are you bringing the bmx to nats? :tup:
 

SY2932

Administrator
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

Here's what mine looked like two weeks before the '02 NATS:



I tip my hat to you folks that DRIVE your trucks to the NATS and RACE them... Since I no longer have access to a tow vehicle and sold my trailer to myclone, my truck will NEVER make it to the NATS if I attend :( . I find it ironic that I sold my trailer to the person who confirmed my fears about driving my truck to the NATS when I attended my fist one...
 

myclone

Donating Member
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

SY2932 said:
Here's what mine looked like two weeks before the '02 NATS:



I tip my hat to you folks that DRIVE your trucks to the NATS and RACE them... Since I no longer have access to a tow vehicle and sold my trailer to myclone, my truck will NEVER make it to the NATS if I attend :( . I find it ironic that I sold my trailer to the person who confirmed my fears about driving my truck to the NATS when I attended my fist one...

Weird stuff huh... My delusions of grandure were to drive my truck to the nats every time. After the first one no thanks...being stuck 1200 miles from home in podunk KS is something Id rather not repeat....ever.

BTW, you do know I put a wireless remote on the winch/tilt function of the trailer right? Freaks ppl out when the trailer starts to tilt for no obvious reason (I hide the remote in my hand). Podunks around here freak out and swear its the devils work :lol:
 

SY2932

Administrator
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

myclone said:
BTW, you do know I put a wireless remote on the winch/tilt function of the trailer right? Freaks ppl out when the trailer starts to tilt for no obvious reason (I hide the remote in my hand). Podunks around here freak out and swear its the devils work :lol:

Heh, yeah you told me about it and how you had a little "accident" with the remote in your pocket. All I'm saying is a button got pushed and some breakage occured :lol: .
 
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Timbo

SyTy Stalker
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

Actually, I just got mine back together...
But there's no way it's making it to Nats.
 

BigBadSmoosh

Picking fights on I-65 since 2013
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

I'm going to give driving a shot.. don't know if ill make it there and back or not, but it should at the least be very interesting.
 

Loeryder

New member
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

Mine is in more pieces.

I am considering just bringing it in parts on the trailer and wrenching all night Thursday night in the parking lot at the hotel.
We'll see what I can get done over Labor Day.

Can't wait to see you all at Nats.
 

Loeryder

New member
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

Here is an update from last night.

*hint: some of the stuff in that pic is just "sitting there"

The pile of parts strewn about the floor and to my back as I took this pic is a bit intimidating so I didn't bother.

I call this piece - ty bomb.

How many days is it to Nats?
 
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Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

Loeryder said:
Here is an update from last night.

*hint: some of the stuff in that pic is just "sitting there"

The pile of parts strewn about the floor and to my back as I took this pic is a bit intimidating so I didn't bother.

I call this piece - ty bomb.

How many days is it to Nats?
Looks like you made some progress since I was there. Keep up the work, I'm sure you'll make it in time.

PS...what did you need when you called? Leave me a message next time :tup:
 

Loeryder

New member
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

SonomaGTlover said:
Looks like you made some progress since I was there. Keep up the work, I'm sure you'll make it in time.

PS...what did you need when you called? Leave me a message next time :tup:

That same question I posted about the stud length and a safe way to get more threads for the polylocks to grab onto.

It was getting late and I was standing there with a wrench in one hand and my greasy cell phone in the other.

I don't think I'll have a problem getting it back into one piece for Nats. :tup:
 

heavy breather

FBI enforcer
Re: any elses truck look like this a few weeks before nats?

I seem to remember pretty much assembling my truck on and off the trailer a few short years ago....AT NATS. I had just finished the vortec conversion and had to replace front body panels intercooler, accessories, etc, etc. I dont recommend that though Engine only made it about 800 more miles before aeration of the crank case via #6 piston.
 
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