My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

Finally finished running all new air lines, installed new relay valves and abs modulators on the rear. Split loomed everything individually and then tucked them into a big split loom to run the frame rail. I'll get pictures the next time I get it in to work on...

I have one fitting to replace, but after spraying everything down and watching for a couple of hours, I'm 99% leak free. Truck has been sitting for 5 days now and still has air in the cab and suspension bags.

Backlog of work for a little cash flow, and taking a much needed a break from the 18-20 hour days has left the truck on the back burner while I try to get some fall things taken care of before winter decides to make life miserable.

I finally got backordered battery box/fender mount plates... My wife saw the ones I blasted and primed and laughed at me for even thinking about reusing. The metal was getting a little thin I guess.



A little bump in the road with my bumper that I'm hopeful gets resolved soon. First I noticed the passenger side tweaked out at the bottom.


(compared to driver side)


But then to add insult to injury, I found that my pitman arm contacts the d.s. mount. So I flipped them, thinking hey, maybe I put them on wrong... Nope, nothing seems to line up with much of anything, and either way the mounts are installed makes contact with the pitman arm.





Next on the agenda is finally dropping my fuel tanks to check under the straps for corrosion, and pull my pickup tubes and senders. I'm either drawing from only the left tank, or returning more to the right tank, and right sender is reading open. Fuel lines is the only thing I didn't replace, only because there was a new return valve, and the lines looked like they were replaced shortly before the truck died. Another thing I miss from the 90's, when fuel tanks had crossover lines and ball valves to shut them off.