that has got to be so expensive...

wat he said, up to now i dont have over 3grands into this truck including the truck itself and maintenance, i dont want to imagine how much a custom paint job would cost on such a big vehicle. ofc it has huge potential but i dont have money for that haha.
2 of my buddys are in automotive bodywork i might get them to try some plastidip on the truck for shits and giggles but nothing more then that if it does happen.

got up this morning, decided i was gonna go buy a sawzall and chop out my stupid bushing bolts and bring back my leafs to a suspension shop to get new bushings pressed in. So that exactly wat i did.
unfortunately for me the shop didnt have any bushings on the spot but they told me they had some old bins that just might have the right ones and id get a call tomorrow after they'd thoroughly checked all the bushing parts bin (Thursday).
also i received my front end goodies on Monday
specs on sawzall is 12amps 3000cycles per min (Milwaukee sawzall ofc) commes with 5 year warranty



This post was edited by BlueAndWhite on Jan 9 2013 04:20pm

god i wish you lived closer lol, would be herra frush to roll deep in that van when its done lol

the truck is stored in WilliamsTown Ontario its about 1hour and half drive for me to go work on the truck, almost 300km round trip but thats really the border of Quebec/Ontario.

just came back from the suspension shop, the guy called me early this morning saying 2 bushing would cost me 50$ + 76$ of labor and he had to special order 1 since he didn't have it, so he offered me a 135$ brand new main leaf that he had laying around in his shop with new bushings in it, i told him go for it. He changed both pack clamps or w/e they are called and put in a new center bolt and punched out the bushings from my old leaf, cost me 26$ for labor. now i have my old leaf as a spare he gave it back and told me to hang on to it, he tried to check and couldn't find any from local distributors. I added up the expenses up to now and im 775$ deep into this project without counting the tools, propane heating and fuel to get to the truck. I know il have to go to the suspension shop again to get the lowering coils in, im praying i wont have to much bad luck with front wheel bearings and tie rod ends/ball joints, luckily for me both upper and lower ball joints are pressed into the control arms.

now pics or gtfo section


This post was edited by BlueAndWhite on Jan 10 2013 10:47am

hey....spend more on audio!

thats first thing i did when i bought the Van

i got a pioneer p8400 head unit
4x100rms soundstream amp
2x90 rms soundstream components in the back
2x 80rms pioneer 6x9 components in the front

got me trough the summer, i regret not buying a 5 channel amp tough and had issues with the soundstream speakers, il never buy those again.
but the keyword in your comment is more witch id love to do

This post was edited by BlueAndWhite on Jan 10 2013 11:09am

the rear is finally in, here are some pics. It is still missing the struts, the seller needed the length measurement between the mounting points after lowering it so he can send me the right length strut for my application.
As is the Van is sitting on the bump stops, il probably chop it out once i get everything dialed in and gain an other 1'' 1/2 of clearance.

damn haha can crusher