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Going on with the dashboard: We will place radioloudspeaker in the dashboard like civilian Trucks instead using them in the door again. We have a lot of good equipment of our former cars. Never sold one all left after more than 20years and 300000/500000 km to scrapyard and metalrecycling. So we...

12 hours and 2 prototype later is our radio and switch unit ready to connect Radio-Micro is only allow to use in parking position. We will use a bluetooth speaker and micro as freehand unit A door was not possible about the space we need. So it is just a cover with screws. The bracket...

The shifter unit is installed The stainless steel Cover will be paint black... By installing we face the next challenge The speedometer adapter from Dacota digital wil be not work with the shifter cables in the same space So we need to purchase something we call here Tacho Winkelantrieb -...

Last week we got the dustcover and the dipstick for the transmission. Like expected was it not just fitting it need a lot of customizing. We start wit the dipstick. It need a lot of adjusting bending before it end up in front of the firewall in the engine compartment. Unfortunately the electric...

I love it when a plan comes together First check the wiring with the old instrument cluster, if everything works well before being laid neat and tidy and installing Dacota digital now we can go ahead and connect the Dacota digital instrument And as it is not allow in Germany that...

Maybe some have no good expierence by Rockauto but we must say they have a great international customer service. In one sending we missed a part and they sent it additional without costs for us in a few days. Now we got a wrong part It was labeled correct but obviously the wrong radiator hose...

He got his face back the new turnlights was worth the money left the old one, right the new one the chevy sign was build 25 years ago ourself from brass-sheet It was former polished, but now we sandblasted and descide to paint it black as in natural appearance will it not fit to the Truck

The most is added on the truck now Still waiting for the Duramax-Fan and the parking/turnlights... it is in backorder so we need to adapt our approach We had some discussion of the foglightsposition I had removed the old bracket as we said we will take them under the tube of the brushguard but...

Thank you for the Encouragement and Appreciation of all who follow this thread. My last post will be a summary of costs and labor hours at the end with the Value appraisal. Already I'm getting a new truck just for the cost but it's not the same! If you want to preserve classic cars and history...

Another assembly which need patience, how to got the rods in the tailgate locking mechanism seems to be a mysterium or a lot of fumbling and cursing. Finally we was sucessful Still need the final alignment from the doors

After a lot of discussion how to fix additional switches and the CB Radio and going with the AmmoBox was the next challenge to fix it on the floor in a way you can view and reach the panel. We go with a Polypropylen foot which we milled like the Spacer from the shiftunit Edges cutted...

Finished the torque support to the frame it is out again for sandblasting and painting Start with the spacer for shifting First milling the polypropylene block in the right measurements Next weekend we will milling the hole in the center position

We used the Jeep steering shaft swap Rockauto sells them new We choose a new one to havn't trouble to install them, and so it was done in just 2 min.

Going on with the steering column Never had one disambled before and i must confess it is nothing what i want do twice Preparing the cab-wiring for Dacota Digital During our son done this he ask casually if the chevy have possibility for Car safety child seat :love: Well he carried in...

Going on this weekend and figured out we need also a new Driveshaft in front. It must be shorter, never expected this as all information i found was always front is to short and rear to long 😅 we already have in our budget both new. The NP208 has the mount of frontdriveshaft several cm...

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Yes i agree. We found both here for less than 50 Euro if we take an used handset. We prefer a NOS handset and take both for 70 Euro. Additional we need to buy the bluetooth equipment which price is dependent of quality. For sure it will be less than 300. For someone without skills for build...

It was a hard job to got this heavy TC under the Truck. Speedsensor We measured the front drive shaft complete close 78 cm and complete open 88 cm By testing we need just to pull out 1,5 cm to fit in as the distance is 79,5 cm between both mounts. It is a little bit confusing. The...

We gone in the last 18 months through a lot of learning process in our restoration and changed also the route during this process. Specially as we had problems to got our desired modifications here (Germany) roadlicenced. Finally it will be at the end 100% stock oldtimer restoration - roll out...

Today we installed the 4L80e transmission without any problems. Supported with a temporary foot and aligned crossmember, we adjusted the NP205. Now we just need to paint the TC, machine the foot, bolt on the crossmember, add a torque support and the drivetrain is ready except for the...