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well we started on my girls truck

3.8K views 44 replies 27 participants last post by  Butane08  
#1 ·
allie got a 94 dime with a newer sonoma front clip. allready bagged. this truck was nasty ugly bad. OK ill start from the rear. ok bagged. chassie tech bag on one side re7 on the other. bags dident lift to same highth. also the automan bag rubbed the notch. the notch was kicked out and rubbing the wheel. the notch was cracked in a few places. bearly tacked on. even i think there is some JB weld on this bitch. the driver side frame rail was an inch lower than the passanger side. the axle was kicked over making the truck dog walk. and it was mono leafed. ok moving up to the front. the spring pockets where not even treamed out. crazy? so we get to breaking this bitch down the bushings where shot. ok ok there was no bushings they where GONE!

so here is the good. well after me and my boy Troy started workin on it at his shop in Palisten saturday. we got the rear frame rails stright so i dident have to back half it. whitch was in the plans. but saved time a money since allie needs to get this thing on the road ASAP! so we cut the old notch off. built a one piece notch out of 2x3 box tubbing. turned out 2x2 box tubbing side ways to make it a lil cooler for the bridge suport. so we made our own 2 link bas. kinda wished i would of orderd a few more bushings. and some axle tabs to turn the bottom link bars side ways also. maybe later down the road. where going to make the bags mount on the bars. Troy built the wish bone today. he said it was realy sick. next weekend where going to finish up the rear. get ride of this getto ass tellaphone wire shit they got hooked to the vavles. then trem out the spring pockets pull the spindles off my old red dime and upper arms and put on this truck. notch for tire rods clean up under hood and yank the inner fenders out. to make it lay lil lower. going to get some uper arms for it from that one guy on dfw minis. NOT KEITH FROM NFAMUS but the other guy.

here are a few pics

old notch u can see the crack in it
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WTF A TACK WELD? that broke LOL
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ha notch for sale????
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this is how u make a link bar. right on the dot! level at 0degres bitch is stright
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and the new notch
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well well well. this weekend sucked. LOL naa. we got alot done. cant bleave all this badd on the truck the whole wire on the vavles comp and what ever. the air lines where ran bad. this truck was a POS. we go the rear done the front done for now. going to save up and get the SD front shit. for all i got to do is notch for tierods. yeah the damn Uper arms where so bad. these wheels i do belave dont belong on a s10. the back spaceing is off. need to get at least a 1/2 spacer and new bolts for the lugs. telphone wire for the valves LOL well we got bored friday night after a few beers so busted out the air brush gun and some pink paint and got to town. i really dont like it. but its iight got to do the other side later. but after we get all the body work done i am going to go back in and change up the paint. and do some bad ass paint work on this truck. since we just got us a paint both for cars and trucks at pauls drift shop! so stay tunned but here are some pics fools!

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rear set up we decided to go with panhard bar. but might go with a track bar later we dont know LOL since we built a 4 link set up dident use it. then went to a wish bone set up and dident use it. went to a panhard bar. LOL

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we still got to clean up all the wireing. i got to go buy some wire. they had the vavles ran so weird. hot wire 4ga off the battery to a 14 ga wire then spliced in to all the valves. then the telphone wire ran to the switchs then the wire is grounded off the switchs. but yeah we got to clean up the wireing. put a preasuer switch on this hoe.

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#5 ·
thanks yeah its going to take awhile for me to get the flames down lil better kinda but not to much. still got to many circles in it. but thanks though!


she going to owe me a blumpkin after this LOL
 
#33 ·
I agree some light purple and white would look killer. But that is some badass work bro keep it up
 
#9 ·
yeah the night she got the truck she started to turn and dident have enought psi in the front and rubbed the tires all in the fenders. i am like stop just stop the damn truck dont keep going heel. if u hear any weird sounds lift up LOL. yeah her other car was nice intell she started driving it. i keep asking my self why did i let her get a truck like this and why do i keep putting my money in it. i could be putting in to my camaro
 
#11 ·
I let my ex take my Galant to the store right after I got done with it in the paint booth and... she wrecked it. Didn't have the new shit done for 3 days and it was done. Didn't total it, but it was bad enough to have to replace the whole front end. That's why I don't work on theirs, they can't respect mine, they damn sure won't respect their own
 
#17 ·
Damn, That's a Helluva project you got going there.

And the flame's look pretty good, especially for just screwing around.

Good Luck, and she owe's you some hummuna-hummuna!!!!
 
#21 ·
Damn man, your getting better with the flames for sure!
 
#23 ·
yeah man the dude that we got it from drove it all the time like this. the damn bag was rubbing the notch. it was scary. i was scared to drive it home! but its fixed now so thats allways really good

and thanks for the coments on truck and flames
 
#32 ·
I wish I could bag my GFs car. She told me I can do whatever I want but no bags. Its a cavalier and I have the full setup ready to go off my old cavalier. So I only put my old rims and some drop springs on it :(
 
#40 ·
since ur a newbie. half of the ppl on here know that i cant spell for shit and i dont try to. where ever i type is what i type! got kicked out of school for skipping school to work on trucks! so it paid off! kinda LOL