PilotHouse2500

I actually hope to drive it to CA for a show in April at my buddy's ranch at some point. I'd take diff routes out and back, so one way I'd likely go thru WA/OR.

Front doors now latching. It's had to see the strike area but I welded in a 1/8" plate and blended to the jamb (some mud will help fill in the places that look ugly) and rounded and smoothed for a "original" look.

got some candy Friday, but won't install for quite a while....

And drivers side. Oddly the second time takes 1/8 the time! And seats placed in the cab for effect. The glass I'm using for mock up is old glass I got from another guy for use as templates. It's not temered it's lam glass. Final glass WILL have a tint. But gotta stay legal below 30% here...

passenger power window in

Cut out the B1/B2 inside door window sill details and replaces with bit from the B3/B4 donor doors for the project (little bumpy bits visilble in previous pics). I am especially proud of the driver side. No warp or heat deflection! Passenger side I got a little over zealous with the hammer and dolly in 2 spots prior to grinding the welds down.

and driver door...

preppping the front doors toward completion with adding more parts of doors to get to the final thickness.

Faster second time!

It now goes up and down with POWER!

Power windows for all the doors and a power cowl vent as well. You'll be waiting a LONG time my friend....I plan on driving this till either they take my license, diesel fuel isn't available or the rapture...whichever comes first.

Started work on the windows as I'm waiting till April to get my RAD delivered. 5316.mp4

picture proof I got it all stuffed in there...

Some major surgury on the truck. After much consideration I decided I needed to move the body forward about 1.5". This entailed cutting off the tip front and rewelding the hinge to a new point. Modification of the tip front frame also was done to allow for the height of the RAD. It also meant moving the cab mounts forward as well. I also cut out a bit on the front of the frame cross member and put in a 2" angle piece to get some more room. This SHOULD give me enough room to fit the RAD and CAC all up front where they belong. I will have to trim the grill bars a bit as well to get things to fit. As a side benefit, it should also center the wheel better in the fender if my math is right.

Returned from T-day earlier than planned, so I used it to mount stuff. Pedals and MC/booster now mounted. I did modify the booster mount to squeeze in there. Tight sapces! Booster is shot so at least I have a part to work with before I buy a replacement and mess with it.

yah, almost 12" long (I want about 9' long) and too narrow so I will section pieces out and shorten and widen it with those bits.

Picked up a frame for the bed yesterday. Forklift driver was a little impatient and tweaked the front rail a little....guess it's a torch fix on the way this winter if I get to the bed. r

back a few pages you can see the front pivot I'll either do hydraulic or electric motor drives to control it. I have pins planned to have it stop on (not installed yet, hence the wood block on the valve cover).

Getting to be that time of year again when I'll be getting stuff done. Last night I got the extensions marked for holes and got the bolt slots put in and mounted them up.

granted its CNN....but mass is mass https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/business/electric-vehicles-weight/index.html

Not to mention how heavy they are and hard on the road.....it seems here in MN they might finally be getting around to some sort of tax for EV's....but likely will also double dip by applying the millage tax to ICE as well (as you still pay gas tax).

Kinda what we thought.....so the question is: what is the offset difference so I can set the extensions right? Is there a spacer or something to help keep things off the shocks and such? Seems the rim would go a bit further in than would be good?

Had some car club buds over for some suds last night and hung the fender extensions on to see how they look. The one guy pointed out the difference in the rims. The front rims are not the same as the rear duals...is that right?

I can't wait either! In summer I wood work to pay for truck stuff in winter...so HOPEFULLY this winter will see more step function moves forward.

So the weekend found some time to putz with the latches and linkages more. I measured for some bushings to solidify things up at the joints and make things more reliable and am waiting for my buddy to get those back to me, but yah...I might be putting a few access holes in strategically to get these installed. Luckily the interior will be covered in a big removable panel. ALSO I got....an NOS hood ornament in perfect condition! I see zero pits and plan on just dropping it on with no repairs.