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Thread: Third time's a charm...but it will be slow going

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    I hope that the engine mount move goes well
    Thanks, George
    Joshua 24:15

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    Thanks George.

    No real progress for the week. I'm back to work after the holidays so I don't have as much time as I'd like. I'm still not completely finished with my plumbing but I'm optimistic I can wrap it up in the morning

    Today I took a drive to the middle of the state to pick up a rusty hard top and a windshield. I'm not sure I'll use either but figured I could decide once I had them home. Once the plumbing is done I hope to get the garage cleaned up enough to get the truck inside at last.

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    Well thats fixable. One thing at a time. That ring gear picture. Is the the rear axle? That is a Powr-Loc limited slip differential. In my small insignificant opinion that is the best LSD made. Designed by Thornton and Spicer, Thornton designed the Studebaker cars. They are adjustable with changing the ratio of curved and flat clutch disc's. My rear Dodge came with a Powr-Loc. Funny thing is the serial number on it was 715.. Ha When you put diff oil in, only add small amounts of LSD additive a little bit at a time and only if it chatters or lunges on a hard corner. The additive makes it slip more and sometimes the recommended amount makes them not work as well. You will like that back there in slippery stuff. My first original truck would get stuck on a wet leaf.
    So good progress. Watching with interest and hoping you keep moving along on it. And don't feel bad. I just discovered I have two leaking toilets at the floor seal. yuk.. So, I can relate..
    Liz, covid, murdered 10/19/21

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    No progress again today. Yikes, time slips away day by day.

    Thanks for the info Kaiserjeeps. I was excited to learn the rear axle already had a form of traction aid. It's good to know at least some people even like it. I assume I will be in that camp as well.

    I am contemplating if I will add a selectable locker in the front axle. I don't know that I will though because this isn't really being built to be a serious off road wheeler. I'm sure an open front differential will be fine for as much off roading I expect this will get by me.

    I don't have any leaks so far in my plumbing fix but time will tell I suppose. At the risk of embarrassing myself, the last time I thought I had it fixed it started leaking after about three weeks. I "think" I did it better this time. I didn't get out in the garage though. I'm hoping tomorrow I will have some garage time again.

    I'm cautiously optimistic that this truck build will continue until completion.

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    I'm not sure if a build thread is the right place to ask this question but where are people getting their seat covers from these days? I was thinking I should order some seat covers to make my seats look presentable.

    I just got a response from New Life Canvas. They are not taking new orders currently.

    "New Life Canvas is placing a temporary hold on all NEW orders while we reduce our backlog and shorten our production lead times."

    I'm not sure what my plan is at the moment. One of my trucks had H1 seats. I remember those being fairly comfortable but slightly too tall for the cab.

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    I ordered my top from new life in feb. the lead time was July. I finally got it a week or two ago. Good work, just a long time
    Thanks, George
    Joshua 24:15

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    I ended up getting mine ordered today from here. I think he said 2-3 weeks.

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    Nothing picture worthy today, but I did get the truck into the garage.

    I had the idea that I want to put a communication radio in this truck. I started looking at military surplus radios and got sticker shock.

    I have a lot of reading to do but so far what I've read is the military radios aren't great radios, they are just overpriced.

    I am starting to worry that I will end up resorting to my last choice of "faking it" by making a modern amateur radio "look" military.

    Anyone reading this have any suggestions on where I can fine an affordable surplus radio that would be period correct? Beast has an RT-524 and that seems to be a period correct radio. I'm wondering if there are other options other than the RT-246?

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    Still nothing picture worthy today.

    I started to look at relocating the engine up so it isn't resting on the front axle. Every time I would raise the engine it would shift. After several attempts I decided to try something different. I jacked it up with a bottle jack and just let it shift over. I figured I'd try installing the steering into the cab to check clearance. Now I need to get a steering box in place to be sure. There isn't a lot of room but so far it appears that there is enough.

    The cab I have is very rusty. It was sandblasted many years ago and never treated afterward. It was rusty like it is now when I picked it up several years ago. I would really like to replace it with a better one and will probably trade it out if I find one that works out for me.

    I spent some time extracting broken bolts and chasing threads with a tap. There are a lot of threaded holes in a cab.

    I have a lot of parts but didn't actually start with a parts truck per se. My parts truck is a J truck cab on a M715 frame. Not a ton of parts I can use for this build,

    I'm riding the struggle bus at the moment. It's been too long since I've actually had a complete M715 and I don't remember a lot of the details about how the body is bolted to the frame. I found some hardware in the J truck that I'm pretty sure is the body mount bolts. My memory is that the bolts were clamping the body to the frame with springs. I'm looking for pictures so I can determine how this is supposed to go together.

    I'm also planning to install a NOS front wiring harness from a M35A2 in the M715 cab. I remember reading an old post from Barrman where he did something similar so I thought I'd give it a shot. It seemed easier that building a new harness from scratch.

    I'm starting to think about running a dual voltage truck. My Duramax engine is 12 volt but I'm contemplating running dual sensors so I can keep the stock M715 gauges and fuel sensor. I did dual sensors on a Jeep TJ when I did an LS swap and it was pretty easy. I don't imagine it would be too complicated to do it to the Duramax as well. I'll also likely get an Edge monitor to see what information the engine computer is getting from the stock Duramax sensors. Basically 24 volts for everything M715 related and 12 volts for Duramax related stuff. I'm not settled on this though. Having 12 volt lights might be easier long term.

    I'm still trying to find all the parts I thought I had for this build. I have duplicates and triple of some parts that I don't remember buying, and I'm not finding others that I thought I had.

    I found the seats that need to be recovered and just realized I'm missing the bracket for the drivers seat. I got the passenger seat sitting in place but am not finding the drivers side. I'm now on the hunt for that.

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    Nice forward progress
    Thanks, George
    Joshua 24:15

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