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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby rokhound » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:35 pm

Rock on baby :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Ugly is a state of mind..... and the state of my truck!

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:00 pm

rokhound wrote:Rock on baby :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:



I was trying to find some of that flash orange paint for the chassis but had to make do with plain old black :mrgreen:

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Fakey » Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:59 am

Nothin wrong with good old chassis black :lol:
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby kaney » Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:40 am

Looking flash! 8) 8)
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby kbjj » Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:07 am

Where you up to with this Marty?
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Bolo » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:07 pm

BUMP Update time :mrgreen:
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby skid » Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:26 pm

Bolo wrote:BUMP Update time :mrgreen:


hes been bush for last week and a half

that a good enough update dude :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby mylux » Thu May 12, 2011 9:03 pm

Time for an update on this one.
Where are you up to ? is it road legal yet?
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Thu May 12, 2011 9:15 pm

mylux wrote:Time for an update on this one.
Where are you up to ? is it road legal yet?



you must have known I've been up to no good lately, finely got everything back from the panelbeaters at the start of Feb about the same time I busted my right shoulder out in the bush so its been a slow start to the year. Sig did a bit more playing around and machineing etc and got the clutch fork and release bearing to fit into the bellhousing with the twinplate clutch and snuck the engine and gearbox back in the chassis without even inviting me over to drink a few Tui's and watch :shock: . I've gained enough strength and movement in my arm/shoulder to start reassembling the cab over the past month and have it about 90% complete (interior, dash, seats and all that shit in, doors and guards assembled etc) and are just starting on sticking all the firewall shit back on so its probably only a couple of weeks untill the cab is ready to get bolted back onto the chassis :mrgreen:

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby mylux » Thu May 12, 2011 9:36 pm

Now you mention it I did see a couple of pictures of you with ya arm in a sling.
Bout time to orginise those Welly boys for another working bee I reckon.
It would be good to see some pictures.
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Thu May 12, 2011 10:20 pm

There's bits scattered everywhere so I cant do a lot of photos, the cab is in my shed, the chassis and engine is in Sig's shed an hour away and the deck is on loan to a mate with a 70 series he brought without a deck last year


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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Jerry » Thu May 12, 2011 10:22 pm

Sorry Marty I found your guards and bonnet ...they might fit mine :lol: . you can have my unpainted ones :lol:

Seriously ... whens the next working bee
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby abbo » Fri May 13, 2011 9:13 pm

Sadam_Husain wrote:There's bits scattered everywhere so I cant do a lot of photos, the cab is in my shed, the chassis and engine is in Sig's shed an hour away and the deck is on loan to a mate with a 70 series he brought without a deck last year


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Man thats looking great.....Nice new clean cab there sir.... :wink: Flash big red.... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Don't have 4wd.

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:00 pm

Some more updates, pics of the engine and gearbox bolted into the chassis

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we were able to use the captive mounts I'd had made up for the old engine a couple of years ago, they have been shifted back on the chassis about 60-70mm coz the later chev engines are a bit shorter without the flange around the rear of the block.


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The later engines are a 4 bolt pattern for the engine mounts instead of the old 3 bolt pattern so we bolted plates to the old engine mounts and redrilled them for the 4 bolt pattern. The truck is now setup with engine mounts that can swap between std 350's and LS engines without having to modify anything again



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A couple of nights ago Skid rallyed all the boys together and they came around and picked up the cab, loaded it onto the trailer, drank all my piss and took it out to Sig's place and we mounted it back on the chassis :mrgreen:

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby mylux » Sat Jun 25, 2011 9:41 am

Looking good, :) :) keep up the good work 8)
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby madlux » Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:36 pm

Nice tidy work. Love the tool box!! :D

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:16 pm

Got a bit of shed time today, stuck the fuel tank in and hooked up a few linkages and odd bits and pieces, Sig's been turning a big engine loom into a small engine loom

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby 007 » Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:07 pm

Sadam_Husain wrote:Got a bit of shed time today, stuck the fuel tank in and hooked up a few linkages and odd bits and pieces, Sig's been turning a big engine loom into a small engine loom

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How Is the truck going
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby sig » Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:05 pm

slowly :(
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:25 pm

Been a bit of exhaust work going on in Sigs shed the past couple of days, LH side exhaust is built and RH side is built up as far as the back of the cab and stopped there coz we couldnt find the missing flange despite turning the shed upside down and searching everywhere for it :oops: :mrgreen: its a twin 2 1/2" system down each side exiting just behind the rear wheels, after it looking really tight to get the pipes down the inside of the chassis rails and past the PTO on one side and past the 4wd vaccum accuator and transfer case on the other side it worked out a pretty good fit.... nice work Mr Sig :mrgreen:

Will need a small working bee in the near future to lift the cab back off to swap the gearbox out for a spare one and setup the clutch slave cylinder and sort out a few underneath bits, dtba :mrgreen:

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Drurban » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:35 pm

Nice build, truck is progressing nicely, looks very professional I like these type of build threads, keep up with the good work.

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby KROOZA » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:55 pm

Nice exhaust work ! Looks like it should be well out of the way of getting bashed.

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby abbo » Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:04 pm

Looks very cool sir............. 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Don't have 4wd.

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Slideways » Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:50 am

Looks really nice!

One question though, aren't you meant to join the twin exhausts else it will sound like two inline 4 cylinders with weird ign timing?
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Overkill » Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:38 am

Slideways wrote:Looks really nice!

One question though, aren't you meant to join the twin exhausts else it will sound like two inline 4 cylinders with weird ign timing?
Balance Pipe, pretty sure you do need one, will ask my mate who used to own Midas.....

edit: Balance pipe not "needed" but will give better performance and nicer/ricer quieter sound..... :mrgreen:
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:56 pm

Slideways wrote:Looks really nice!

One question though, aren't you meant to join the twin exhausts else it will sound like two inline 4 cylinders with weird ign timing?



You can join them into a 2 into 1 but then it isnt a twin exhaust anymore or you can put a ballance pipe in but they still sound fine without one. The truck used to have a 2 into 1 with the 350 and my 40 series is a 3" 2 into 1 and I havent had a twin pipe system before so I thought I'd try twin pipes this time around :P


both sides are built now and only need the o2 sensor fittings put in and some mounts made up for the back. Didnt have any clearance problems around the back diff other than having to route the drivers side pipe up over the arm for the brake proportioning valve

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby niblik » Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:45 pm

veddy good veddy noice.... :wink: :mrgreen: lookin the shizzle nizzle..

as for balancing pipes, i dont have one on vomitron.. seems to drive fine and sound ok on song.. :mrgreen:
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby Sadam_Husain » Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:25 pm

niblik wrote:veddy good veddy noice.... :wink: :mrgreen: lookin the shizzle nizzle..




Yep shes starting to take shape now Nibz :mrgreen: and the startup is starting to get closer, the looms pretty much all dissected and ready to take through the firewall to get hooked up to a fusebox and the ECU, theres still a bit of the truck enginebay wireing to sort out, new fuel lines need to be run back to the tank and the new fuel pump mounted, intake needs to be hooked up to the airbox and a few other minor engine bits to sort out and we can give it a startup :D

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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby rokhound » Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:06 pm

8) 8)
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Re: Sadams Red Flatdeck tidy up and new engine

Postby badnuz » Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:19 am

getting excited we are! 8) going to be very sweet once done, i feel a trip to whanga road is needed to test it :)
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