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Ryoken's 89 Crew Cab Tubebed build... aka Mutt....

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I'm bored, so you get build babble... skip or snore... :deal: :haha:

tomorrow is just take the ceiling, with the harness bolted to it, and bolt that in... can't have the track, won't fit thru the door opening.. but that's fine, all i'm trying to do is figure exactly how the cables transition to the back wall, behind the track, and out the left wall and #2 down the wall.... I'll than pop holes in the upper back corner of the left wall for the liquid-tights... :coolblue:

at that point, i can install the rest of the contraption to locate the grd post.. and start mocking up stuff on the left.... I'm still a bit up in the air about routing/exiting for winch leads and the light harness..... once the contraption is installed, i can mock all that stuff up, check clearances...

but the drawer will be functional.... oh, and i'm gonna move the winch control plug to the outside box panel for ease of use....

full LAB™ days coming up.... :saweet: iffy weather tho.... :doah:
 


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hold downs worked out perfect....




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here's how tight it is... that dot is were the grd bulkhead post goes... the grd is tucked behind the track...




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here is how the liquid tights are....


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ignore the grd tucked over there.....




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the next couple days will be spent mocking up the solenoid pack, etc.... need to pull it apart to do the grd post and left wall... plus i'd still like to sharkhide the alum....


it's quite involved installing all of this.... it'll be several hrs alone just disassembling and reassembling what's there now...





one more later... ;) :pimp: :saweet:
 
ryoken said:
wish I still drank, I'd toast myself tonight.... I can't believe I pulled that sh*t off...
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Looks awesome paul! good work.

For some reason, i expected the wire track to be more visible. Looks killer that it is barely noticeable, unless you are looking for it.
 
dhcomp said:
Looks awesome paul! good work.

For some reason, i expected the wire track to be more visible. Looks killer that it is barely noticeable, unless you are looking for it.
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thanks.. that's exactly what i was going for... subtle, but, "Hey, wait, what's that I see" gig.....

cold day today... cleaning The Lab™ ....... working on the solenoid pack, maybe take a few more pics later.. hopefully tomorrow i can get it back apart for the next round.. next time it goes in will be for good....

FTR, from x-mas till now, I prolly have 125 to 150 hrs in... so with the original tray build ya figure this is 200+ hrs...
 
ryoken said:
thanks.. that's exactly what i was going for... subtle, but, "Hey, wait, what's that I see" gig.....

cold day today... cleaning The Lab™ ....... working on the solenoid pack, maybe take a few more pics later.. hopefully tomorrow i can get it back apart for the next round.. next time it goes in will be for good....

FTR, from x-mas till now, I prolly have 125 to 150 hrs in... so with the original tray build ya figure this is 200+ hrs...
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And people wonder why fab work cost so much
 
that's a bit of a bummer that the underbodies are yellower than the drawer lights... I may rethink what i use down there....





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got the front grd and one pos done.. waiting on 1 straight lug to do the last one...



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just ordered my cable boots, hopefully i like em...







here's the solenoid pack going back together..... gonna work on the mounting plate tomorrow....



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3/8" thick plate... 2 pieces of 3/16" lammed... why? :dunno: :whistle:

1/4" was too little, 1/2" too much... and i only have 1/8, 3/16 and 1/4"... :screwy: another hr of my life I won't get back... ;)




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the 2 unused holes are how it mounts.. it'll be countersunk on the outside panel, and black 1/4/20's tapped into that plate...





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had to order another box of the black acorn nuts, nylocs for now.....





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gonna run the winch cables thru the frame rail. it's by far the best exit spot out of the box.... the back wall of the box is only a couple of inches from the rail...

i really wanted to run those out the back headed down the rail, but it's sooooo tight on the bat side, it's just not gonna work....

gonna run a slightly larger liquid-tight straight out the back wall, right above the slider.. to the left of the track..... i'll bundle them together.. i'll also put the rear light harness in there too..







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the solenoid pack is all the wall back and up as reasonable on the left.. the wires will run down, next to the slider bracket, and out the liquid tight.. the sub panel will also be up high in front of that, with the light harness wires going down, and back....








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boy, this thing is gonna be a full day clusterfug to assemble once it's all set up...



thankfully i don't have room for an inverter!! :haha:
 
You could build a bridge over the end of the track and mount an inveterate. Even pushed all the way in, it doesn’t look like it would hit the halfway poi t
 
dhcomp said:
You could build a bridge over the end of the track and mount an inveterate. Even pushed all the way in, it doesn’t look like it would hit the halfway poi t
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only way you could do that, would be to mount it on the tray, above the track.... not on the ceiling... hmmmmmmmm.......
 
ryoken said:
only way you could do that, would be to mount it on the tray, above the track.... not on the ceiling... hmmmmmmmm.......
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yep. Front side to edge of drawer, back side supported above cables. Doable depending on inverter size, but might get a bit cluttered.
 
dhcomp said:
yep. Front side to edge of drawer, back side supported above cables. Doable depending on inverter size, but might get a bit cluttered.
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hadn't even contemplated ON the tray, thanks..... was assuming i would mount it on a wall... heck, at this point i figured i might mount it on the ceiling of the opposing lower box once i build it... the right side of the bats would have darn good room, but the hold down tabs sticking out really fug it... I do like the fact that bat power is right there... it's actually a smarter spot as the only wires potentially wanting to run thru the track would be a small remote panel wire if i wanted it... as opposed to adding a couple to power an inverter on the wall...


i measured it.. i could fit something in the 16, 16.5" deep, x 7, 7.5" wide, x 5, 5.5" high... not much room... it would actually be like 20" deep, but the solenoid pack will be sticking out back there... the front sub panel is shallow....

it would actually work nice in that i could open the door, switch it on right out front and plug stuff in without opening the tray... one prob from my cursory look at inverters is that size and ooomph..... you know me, i want something decent.. but nothing in the 2000 range will fit that... i may have seen a 1500 or 2 that would fit in that envelope tho... really, i just want to be able to run a grinder, buffer, corded tool of some sort, and/or charge cordless bats.. looks like the 1500's do reasonable amps...

i'm looking at pure sines in the $200 to $350ish range... more research is needed...
 
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