And in other news, this is happening too.
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'89 R3500 Crew Cab 2wd to 4wd conversion & beyond
- Thread starter mrk5
- Start date
Started out with 2wd TBI350 with SM465 to current 4wd with 454, 700r4, NP241
Passenger fender was really hurting.
Is it just me or is your hood hinge cut down?
That one broke on our snow run last month. If you look closely you can see the rust where it was broken part way thru for awhile.
According to LT Holman formerly of power nation tv, the stock injectors are stupid small., like 19 lbers. He put 36 lbers in his.Man @ZooMad75 spoiling all my surprises.We are going to run it with a Holley Teminator X which will use the 4x crank signal to do CnP ignition. Nate already hooked me up with some coil packs.
I already have a cam and new valve springs. The other thing I need is new injectors as the factory set won't work for the power we should get out of it. From what I read the L29 injectors are junk anyway and a lot of people trade them out for some Ford application injectors.
Interesting, I’ve never seen one break like that.
I’ve broke multiple lefts and one right fender in a similar fashion. Not nearly as bad, but once that spot welded bracket comes loose from the inner structure it’s the most annoying rattle on the planet.
Mine was from the tire stuffing into the fender under compression multiple times.
I meant the hood hinge breakage.
The fenders, yeah I’ve had to weld mine back together before. And in my brothers old C10 that got some prerunner usage!
I think not doing anything with the fenders did it. The hinges were holding the top of the fenders together. On the driver side I didn't have to remove any of the top bolts.
2 fenders off and I got some good engine mounts.
Not sure if I'm making progress or going backwards. 
Pretty soon you’ll run out of stuff to take off. When you do start putting fresh parts back on. Just don’t sooner than later. Many a truck have ended up as a storage shelf in that state.
I will take one more thing off. I want to redo the shock hoops. Enough has changed since I first set them up, they aren't quite the right height. I also realized they aren't tied together quite like I would like.
Engine cage time!
That's the idea. Before I just had a bar across the engine to the tops of the shock hoops. I learned the hard way on the K5 that the frame will crack otherwise. But I realized the way I connected the bar to the hoops will allow it to pivot, so it's not helping to stiffen the frame.
MORE TRIANGLES!!!
Buggy time!
I still like having the enclosed cab.
Truggy time!
I wish I would have kept mine, have even thought about putting one back on.
