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This build thread encompasses a truck that my brother and I have worked on together over the course of the last 7-8 years after he first started building it from his ex-girlfriend's grandfather's farm truck.
After accumulating only 68,000 miles over it's life it is slowly being built back into what we always wanted it to become, with some new twists that we have picked up along the way.
Here was the truck bone as it sat, unmolested by our hands, with only 40k on the clock:
When the truck was "finished" the first time it was just a bagged daily driver my brother Adam cruised around in:
It took a hiatus out of our hands when he broke up with the girl he started it with, and it sat, accumulating scratches and tree sap. Once we got back into the truck and took stock of what needed attention, we realized we were in for more than just a tune up and some new parts. We dug into a complete rewire of everything from the battery back through the air ride system and alarm brain.
There are now easily replaceable relays for the compressor, brain for the door poppers and other remote functions, and a power block that splits out to switches for full FBSS (front/back/side/side) air control.
At some point I went to a junkyard and picked up a 1991-1993 style one-piece grille and a bench seat that I rocked while driving this thing to work:
Painted a few more things black last year and picked up some 16x8 2nd Gen S-10 ZQ8 wheels:
Early this year we painted a few more things black:
And of course, we have almost beat the plate off it driving low.
After accumulating only 68,000 miles over it's life it is slowly being built back into what we always wanted it to become, with some new twists that we have picked up along the way.
Here was the truck bone as it sat, unmolested by our hands, with only 40k on the clock:
When the truck was "finished" the first time it was just a bagged daily driver my brother Adam cruised around in:
It took a hiatus out of our hands when he broke up with the girl he started it with, and it sat, accumulating scratches and tree sap. Once we got back into the truck and took stock of what needed attention, we realized we were in for more than just a tune up and some new parts. We dug into a complete rewire of everything from the battery back through the air ride system and alarm brain.
There are now easily replaceable relays for the compressor, brain for the door poppers and other remote functions, and a power block that splits out to switches for full FBSS (front/back/side/side) air control.
At some point I went to a junkyard and picked up a 1991-1993 style one-piece grille and a bench seat that I rocked while driving this thing to work:
Painted a few more things black last year and picked up some 16x8 2nd Gen S-10 ZQ8 wheels:
Early this year we painted a few more things black:
And of course, we have almost beat the plate off it driving low.
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