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NAH, my foot med's were kickin in. Just messin around.


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man that is sexy!
Yeah keeping a 400 cool while mudding and hill climbing is a chalenge, a guy i wheel whith has a 70 suburban whith one and he has issues whith it, but he just shuts it down or lets it idle alot and its never overheated.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

Check out this brand of radiators. I me
t the reps for this company 2 yrs ago, they really have a top notch product. the site is http://www.rodneyred.com

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1980 4X4 LUV

Rick Smith
They do have some outstanding products and they even have polished aluminium radiators.

But $400-500 is more than I have spent on my whole project. Mine is definetly LOW budget.

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When everthing goes wrong....
What's right is what's left.

Yeah those Camaro headers (Chevelle and Nova too) work great when you dont have to deal with them torsion bars.

You cant use TufLUV, that's already taken.

UPDATE 1/23/03:
Had a minor setback. After getting the front spring perches welded up and the front springs installed, I discovered the front drveline angle would be too severe. The top of my frame is 36" off the ground in the front.

To cure this, I unbolted the factory trans mount from the frame, turned it upside down and reinstalled/welded it. That lowered the back of the tranny about 2-1/2". That meant I had to also lower the transfer case the same amount. Had to cut out the transfer case supports and reweld them.

After lowering the transfer case, the the rear driveshaft was too close to the rear crossmember. Cured this by cutting out a 5" section of the crossmember, made a driveshaft loop out of 3/16" X 3" steel, then rewelded it into the missing section and added gussets on top of the crossmember to the driveshaft loop.

Body WILL go back on this weekend.... I'll take some more pics.

Worked on the body a little this week too. Cut out the center section of the radiator support and replaced it with a piece of aluminium channel for ease of engne/trans removal. Also cut a piece of thin aluminium to cover the radiator opening since the radiator is moving to the bed. Last thing, I modified an S-10 chrome tube grill and installed it.

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When everthing goes wrong....
What's right is what's left.

GOTCHA!

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When everthing goes wrong....
What's right is what's left.