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[yellowbronco]

You must be getting pretty excited now!! Almost there! :greg:

 

[Kiel]

You must be getting pretty excited now!! Almost there! :greg:

Yes, very much so. I hope to have it running in a couple months. Hopefully everything moves. I did rebuild my own transmission

 

[Meat_]

Looks good Kiel

 

[Bart]

Looking great Kiel. Looks like it's going to be a race to the finish. I'd like to be finished in a month, but logic is telling me double that.

 

[notajeep]

Or tripple that if it is anything like mine. :greg:

 

[bryson]

And then?

 

[Kiel]

Lets see, got some sweet knuckles and steering arms from Mike at Summit Machine. The Reid Knuckles are setup for 5 studs but the 5th stud isn't drilled out so you have to do it. So I drilled it out real quick and reamed it to match the other 4 studs so the acorn nuts will seat properly. It went pretty smooth. I had to notch the frame for the air shocks due to the rear seat being in the way. I think it turned out pretty cool. Then I had to fab up a mount for the upper shock which isn't finished, but turned out pretty good I think.

 

[GOAT]

Lets see, got some sweet knuckles and steering arms from Mike at Summit Machine. The Reid Knuckles are setup for 5 studs but the 5th stud isn't drilled out so you have to do it. So I drilled it out real quick and reamed it to match the other 4 studs so the acorn nuts will seat properly. It went pretty smooth. I had to notch the frame for the air shocks due to the rear seat being in the way. I think it turned out pretty cool. Then I had to fab up a mount for the upper shock which isn't finished, but turned out pretty good I think.

Those knuckles are pretty sweet. Need to get some of those.........

looks good

 

[Meat_]

Looking

Gunna be done by next month?

 

[Kiel]

Got my f body oil pan this week. So I threw that on and proceeded to make my fender supports and finish the rear shock mounts. Also got my 1410 axle yokes. I was thinking that I would just get the old ones off. Should be easy enough right. The rear one went fine. The front went awful took 2 hours. Finally after using the oxy ace torch got it loose.

 

[Greg]

Looks good, those yokes are HUGE! Man, that F-Body pan is a massive height difference compared to the truck pan. I didn't realize it was that much, perhaps I'll have look onto that. How much $$?

 

[Tacoma]

1410's are rad.

 

[Herzog]

Looking good man, keep it up!

 

[Kiel]

Looks good, those yokes are HUGE! Man, that F-Body pan is a massive height difference compared to the truck pan. I didn't realize it was that much, perhaps I'll have look onto that. How much $$?

The cheapest place I could find was gmpartsdirect.com cost me 275 to my door for the oil pan, baffel, pickup tube, dipstick and indicator. I measured it and its almost 4 inches difference. Took me about 30 minutes to change everything. It pretty much makes the bottom of the oil pan and the trans pan even which is

1410's are rad.

Bigger is better right

 

[Bodine]

Very

 

[I Lean]

The cheapest place I could find was gmpartsdirect.com cost me 275 to my door for the oil pan, baffel, pickup tube, dipstick and indicator. I measured it and its almost 4 inches difference. Took me about 30 minutes to change everything. It pretty much makes the bottom of the oil pan and the trans pan even which is

Happen to have a part number for that little guy? Bob here at work has a 5.3 also, and would like to shrink his massive oil pan just like you did.

 

[Bart]

x2 on the oil pan. I need to do the same thing.

 

[Kiel]

No problem guys, got this list of POR

12558251 - SCREEN
Part#: 12558251
Manufacturer Part#: 12558251
(Qty: 1 x $33.91)

12558253 - DEFLECTOR
Part#: 12558253
Manufacturer Part#: 12558253
(Qty: 1 x $17.83)

12558762 -1998-2003 Camaro/Firebird LS1 Oil Pan Pan
Part#: 12558762
Manufacturer Part#: 12558762
(Qty: 1 x $164.95)

12551577 - TUBE
Part#: 12551577
Manufacturer Part#: 12551577
(Qty: 1 x $7.04)

12551581 - INDICATOR
Part#: 12551581
Manufacturer Part#: 12551581
(Qty: 1 x $9.99)

 

[Bart]

Does that oil pan still have the big sending unit on the side? I can't see one in the pic. I don't have room for one with the front driveline I need to run.

 

[Kiel]

Yes it does, I will see if you can remove it and plug it since I have the old one laying around