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What have you done to your 5 ton this week?

Ford Mechanic

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Where'd you find the new seat foam, an upholstery shop? I'm getting new covers for my Deuce and I need new foam for all 4, preferably fairly stiff foam.

Thanks...

Mark
2 inch foam from Hobby Lobby. It doesn't feel very stiff in your hands, but it does sit stiffer than expected. So it fits the bill very well.
 

Another Ahab

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I was putting fuel in and forgot to screw it back on. Bone head move.

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Happens to the best of us. Story locally here the other day of a guy left his kid in the baby carrier on the car roof and drives off.

Luckily it was a great baby carrier, and the kid was fine, but Mama was probably like:


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swbradley1

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I asked Gimpy to put a new spin-on oil filter and gear-reduction starter onto my XM813.

Both very nice. It starts with two low voltage batteries and it starts faster now.
 

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As I posted to my build thread.
Well finally started to warm up and no rain for a few days so I figured I might as well get a couple of the mods I wanted to do out of the way while I had some free time this past weekend. First off I pulled the cargo cover off and stored the bows & uprights in prep for the truck to be used as part of a stage. Then I put my new 5" Donaldson ram air intake on (also have one for the 923). Then I decided I wanted to get started on the (3) Air Ride seats so I put my two group 31 batteries for 24v and the one good 6TL I had for 12v down into the toolbox under the passenger side door. The Power Distribution box with the circuit breakers/fuses fit in the last little bit of space so I am happy! Used the treated wood blocks from the original box to make my spacers and then used all-thread & some uni-strut I had left over from another project to make my tie-downs. (Still need to finish tidying up the solar charger/Power distribution wiring as well as the backup & forward camera wires once the new seating is completed. Now to go find a 22" x 42" x 1/4" piece of steel to use as the base plate for the two seats that will replace where the OEM battery box/bench seat was.
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More to come as things progress!
 
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