Gerbil Fell Off the Wheel(seat/muffler mods)

[shannondeese]

On the way home today from the hanger whereI get most of my big projects done the Gerbil fell off the wheel in sheer extacy. I could hear myself think, and my butt was planted in a comfortable seat. So here's what we got done today. There is now a 4" Magnaflow exhaust on the stack, and a Ford Aerostar back seat as my front seat. So much better than what was in there. It took a few hours but it was so worth the time. I reused the stock clamp so I can remove the exhaust any time I need too. I just welded it on a bit lower than stock. And I used 8 of the holes with recepticals in the floor already for the mounts. I'll take it out in a couple of days and clean up the welds and paint it. I'll also seal up the front of the square tube I used for the base to get the height where I wanted it. It is about 2 inches lower than my stock sorta sprung seat. My spring seat would only go down about 1.5 inches.

 

[66Reo6X6]

Looks good.

 

[wreckerman893]

That's tougher than woodpecker lips.

 

[roscoe]

Seats a good idea but may I recomend reupolstery in worn leather or canvas to match the truck? I guess I just did recomend.

 

[shannondeese]

additional picture

I plan on recovering the seat in desert digital MARPAT to match the paint that I am going to apply. I'm going to paint it MARPAT digital to match my F350 and my cammies.

 

[srodocker]

nice!

 

[4x4 Forever]

Excellent Shannon! Please keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing with us!

 

[saddamsnightmare]

February 1st, 2010.

Shannonedeese:

Man, you must be some painting wizard to do the digital comouflage on your truck! I can't begin to image the pain of either laying and stencilling, or painting that design on something as large as a deuce or pickup truck. As yet, I have not seen too many military trucks done in digital, mostly just solid 686A tan or woodland green coming out of Red River Army Depot.... I am still trying to figure out how, on a large item like a truck, the square edged camouflage works better then the curved line camouflage patterns. It is generally said that there are few straight lines in nature (outside of maybe the New Mexico or Arizona deserts......)?

Cheers,

Kyle F. McGrogan

 

[shannondeese]

There are a few done in digital and we just got the design approved by TACOM for DOD vehicle application. It takes about 4 days to do a HMMWV or a similar sized rig. The Deuce will take a little longer. And actually in a desert environment the digital breaks up the outline pretty well and does a good job of masking the rig. I like both types of camo but since the digital is helping to pay the bills, that's the way I'm going.

 

[roscoe]

I plan on recovering the seat in desert digital MARPAT to match the paint that I am going to apply. I'm going to paint it MARPAT digital to match my F350 and my cammies.

Great idea, that looks good on the f350. Where do you get the digital seat cover material or how are you going to do that?

 

[shannondeese]

Our flight equipment has the NSN for the bolts of MARPAT digital cloth. Using the NSN I am going to back trace to the manufacture and see if they will sell me a whole bolt. Since I need to reupholster the seat in the Deuce and both benches in my Ford.

 

[Somemedic]

Wallyworld sells marpat desert, USMC and the lighter army camo material. So does JoAnn fabrics.

 

[roscoe]

Wallyworld sells marpat desert, USMC and the lighter army camo material. So does JoAnn fabrics.

Is it a heavy upholstery type material?

 

[Preacherboy]

I have some labeled as "canvas" it seems to be very heavy duty stuff, got it at JoAnn fabrics.

Walmart and JoAnn also sell cheap junk to in the digital, so make sure you touch and feel. The good stuff is much more expensive. Also, if you buy the "true" digital stuff, (denier nylon or whatever it is called) is very expensive, high $$.

 

[blacktop_one]

For milspec fabrics and the like, try these folks: DIY Tactical - Military Textiles and Hardware They always have the good stuff (at least when they aren't sold out of it). You gotta keep an eye out for their new arrivals as this is one of the only places you can get certain things and as a result, they sell out quickly!

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