The old girl is wore out--time for a change.

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Originally Posted by calcagno45

Bravo! This build is incredible. I was viewing through my phone mostly but decided to pull it on the computer and Wow!

Thanks man..... Don't worry there is still allot more to show ya--I am currently like 2 weeks away from tear down and paint....

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And the pads for the pedals. The right will be for rear and the left for front. As you can see there placement should make it easy to hit both.

I am not 100% on how they sit and ya never know till its actually used but I am hoping I nailed --will see...

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So next I figured I would so the accel pedal. I had a stack of toyota 1st,2nd and 3rd gen truck pedal assemblies to choose from and I believe its a 3rd gen I grabbed. I had to rework the mount portion of the pedal first and then made a riser that it sits on.

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Riser mounted now onto the part that holds the cable.

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Made the bracket for the cable and got it mounted.

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Got it mounted and notched the panels for the cable to pass thru.

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So the next part is what I call the backbone and its a very important piece as the hood will butt up to it and the dash will also. So I started by making it and then trimmed the hood to match.

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So the hood is kinda flimsy in the middle so I made something for it to rest on and then trimmed the backbone down to match the hood better with a lip to help keep water from running back.

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so it was time to start the dash and I started with the top part of the dash.

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And from there it just evolves.

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I ordered a custom set of guages from speed hut and finally got them out of the box and finished the drivers side. And there it is the finished dash.

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Wow.

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Originally Posted by Ninomaniac

Wow.

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So I had an idea for what I wanted to do with the electrical center. I wanted it as weather proof as possible and I had a spot I wanted it to go but had to wait for the dash to be done first...

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And this is what I came up with. It was built in that size to fit a certain spot. I originally wanted to use 1/2 turn retainers like I did for my storage but there just wasn't enough exposed height so I went with threaded knobs.

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And there is where it goes. I got a start on mounts for the relays and will do more once I hit that point.

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So now back to my storage area in the back of the rig. Now I played with a few different ideas for a lid. I wanted a lid with overlap and once I figured out what overlap I wanted I had to cut it down a bit so the lid could slide over the bin without the rear tube hitting it.

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So I got the lid built and used a larger retainer. It locks done really nice and I used an automotive foam seal for the lid.. I was really happy with how it turned out..

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Ok so one thing I plan on doing is enough wiring so I can get the mounts on the chassis.

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I got the batteries wired up and the main battery feed started down the driver side of the chassis. That will be finished later on.