Cascade Crew

chevymad · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: A little progress.

You never realize just how many pieces a car has til you go to put it back together. Been working on this thing for months now, but its getting close. Swapped cabs.. started with a completely bare cab. This weekend i've been putting everything back in it. Got the doors and weatherstripping back together. Amazing how you figure out the easiest, proper way to do something, after doing the first one. Doors kinda suck. Put most everything back in the dash, including wiring harness, and welded in the new "low hump". The cab was a 4x4 cab so it had a bolt in high hump. Here's a couple pics. I think things are looking pretty decent for a daily driver.

Here's the new hump.

And an interior shot. Waiting for my carpet to arrive yet.

Did a whole lot of rewiring under the hood today. Trying to clean things up under there. Seems that most of this truck has been wired one piece of a time. The original wiring hardly does anything! lol

GREG DAVIDSON · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

looking good !!!

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

Looks good. New powdercoat touches in the interior turned out nice.

-Schultzy

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject:

Oooooh shiney!

chevymad · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

Hey Paul, any idea what we did with the fuel tank sending wire? Is it still under the truck somewhere? I hope its not unplugged now that the beds on.....

cameron7710 · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:33 am Post subject:

nice

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:30 am Post subject:

chevymad · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject:

A bit more. Last night I made a plate to surround the radio. With just the radio alone you could still partially see the knob holes from the original, and the previous owner had made the hole too big.. so the radio slid around all over. So I cut a plate out of a sheet of aluminum I had.. and powder coated it chrome to match the rest of the interior. I also powder coated the ash tray.

When I ordered my carpet, I also ordered a sound deadener to go under it. Stuff comes pre-cut and ready to install.. only $37 too!

Tonight I finally installed the steering column. Getting much closer!

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

That's looking great Brandon!!

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject:

Very nice. The blue and silver theme is working very well and it makes the red accent that much sexier Wink

-Schultzy

Dewey316 · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

Looks great Brandon!!!

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject:

looking good Brandon!

Just out of curiousity, where did you get your steering wheel from?

chevymad · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

It came from a 72 parts truck that a police officer had hidden behind his hedge. Truck had oklahoma plates.. and he'd only sell it to us if we promised not to apply for a title.... hmmmm...

chevymad · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:38 pm Post subject:

Installed the most important pieces tonight... the amplifier and subwoofer! lol

Sub is getting to be pretty old now. It's gone through a few different amplifiers.. 2 trucks.. and a flood! It's an interesting space saving design though. It was made by polk, and contains 4 6x9s arranged in a push/pull setup. There are 3 chambers, the outer 2 ported and the inner one is sealed. The outer casing is supposed to be a parabolic design. I got it because the shape fits nice either under or behind a truck seat. Here's a pic of the inside of the thing.

Oh and I found the sending unit wire.. I think we'd forgotten it when we pulled the cab off.. cause it appears to be just pulled in two! Laughing

Al Hasse · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:

Looking good Brandon.

I hope you don't mind, I borrowed the pics of the enclosure to show to some audiophiles on another forum and see if they can find some good info on it.

chevymad · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject:

Thought you might find that interesting Al. It's a Polk C4.. Here's one link to some info.

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8573.html

Twilightoptics · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject:

Super close!

chevymad · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

Took a half day off work today since it was very slow there. Got a bunch more done. Basically need carpet/seat, bumpers, and grille and i'm done. BUT seems my new carpet went awol. UPS has lost it. They have no idea where it went. So the vendor I ordered from is sending out another one. Due to arrive sometime next week.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

Sweet. Some bumpers bolts and you'll be set. AWESOME man.

Drive that pig outta the barn!

chevymad · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:

Since its muddy.. and the truck is pulled in the wrong direction.. I'm goin to have to get someone to help me tow it out lol. There's no way its going to back up that hill on its own.