Swapped to Muscle - 75 Duster Daily build
Alrighty, bit of an update.
Earlier in June, I was working on the gauges and some of the electrical. Working with DionR, I was trying to get the Temp and Gas gauges to work. After spending a good chink of time, testing the wires/connections/gauges, they still arent working when running. DionR supplied a new(to me) circuit board and I threw that in. Also threw in some of the LED lights for the dash that I got. Still, no Temp or Gas gauge. Just to make sure, I got a new temp switch to see if that would do the trick for the temp gauge. More to come on that. Hopefully that works. I also worked on getting a Tach installed as well. Had to set my idle again as I was a bit too low.
Skipping ahead, on June 9th, was my wife and I's anniversary and she stated that she had a surprise but it wouldnt get here until the 12th. So the 12th comes around and see what the FedEx guy delivered. She actually got something for the Duster! It was a set of tires that I had on a wishlist. So she got me 2x BFGoodrich G-Force Sport Comp 2 245 /50 R16 (fronts) and 2x 255 /50 R16 (rears). Super stoked that she got those for me!
Another purchase that happened this last weekend was that I found a donor axle out of an explorer to perform the axle swap at a great deal. After driving 100 miles to pick it up, it was in great shape. Its the 3L73 code for the limited slip 3.73 gear. Going to start prepping that to throw under the car here soon.
One last bit of an update, I ordered my front steering and suspension rebuild from PST. That includes: Upper tube arms, ball joints, tie rod ends, idler and pitman arms and the upgraded aluminum C-body adjusters. I also got the Energy Suspension Strut rod bushings as well. I am still researching what torsion bars I want to go with but that and a sway bar is next on the suspension. I will also have to see about how or what the car will look like once the 8.8 is in.
More to come!
Alrighty, bit of an update.
Earlier in June, I was working on the gauges and some of the electrical. Working with DionR, I was trying to get the Temp and Gas gauges to work. After spending a good chink of time, testing the wires/connections/gauges, they still arent working when running. DionR supplied a new(to me) circuit board and I threw that in. Also threw in some of the LED lights for the dash that I got. Still, no Temp or Gas gauge. Just to make sure, I got a new temp switch to see if that would do the trick for the temp gauge. More to come on that. Hopefully that works. I also worked on getting a Tach installed as well. Had to set my idle again as I was a bit too low.
Skipping ahead, on June 9th, was my wife and I's anniversary and she stated that she had a surprise but it wouldnt get here until the 12th. So the 12th comes around and see what the FedEx guy delivered. She actually got something for the Duster! It was a set of tires that I had on a wishlist. So she got me 2x BFGoodrich G-Force Sport Comp 2 245 /50 R16 (fronts) and 2x 255 /50 R16 (rears). Super stoked that she got those for me!
Another purchase that happened this last weekend was that I found a donor axle out of an explorer to perform the axle swap at a great deal. After driving 100 miles to pick it up, it was in great shape. Its the 3L73 code for the limited slip 3.73 gear. Going to start prepping that to throw under the car here soon.
One last bit of an update, I ordered my front steering and suspension rebuild from PST. That includes: Upper tube arms, ball joints, tie rod ends, idler and pitman arms and the upgraded aluminum C-body adjusters. I also got the Energy Suspension Strut rod bushings as well. I am still researching what torsion bars I want to go with but that and a sway bar is next on the suspension. I will also have to see about how or what the car will look like once the 8.8 is in.
More to come!
