82 stepped retired farm truck

[bh86]

made a lil progress today, pulled the ls out from the depths of the shop. It's pretty damn cold right now so i had to fire up the btu heater while I worked in the shop. Shop is turning into a war zone, it looks like a bomb went off. Anyway so I pulled the harness, stripped the unnecessary junk and labeled everything so tomorrow i can put the relays and fuse panel together. Found out my oil pan is now backed up til tuesday, was supposed to arrive no later than tomorrow smh oh well it'll give me time to prep other stuff I suppose

[bh86]

I apologize for some of the crappy pics btw

[bh86]

Any suggestions on tires? Size, brand etc.

[Tx Firefighter]

Tire size for stock skinny hubcap wheels ?

On a lowered truck I run 215/75/15 front and 235/75-15 rear.

The front tire is short enough to clear the fenderwells down to a full 5 inches of lowering. The back tires are stock height so your speedometer reads properly. Both tires being a 75 series, you can usually get matching front and rear brand and pattern. I'm actually running that size on my stepside with full dropmember and air suspension. They are stupid cheap too. Like 300-350 dollars per set out the door.

[bh86]

Ya I'll be running the stock hub cap wheels for the time being. Thanks I'll check into those sizes and see what I can find!

[killthewabbit]

You asked about the rear bumper earlier. Stepside squares are one of the few vehicles that look pretty good with no rear bumper at all. The roll pans they make look kind of weird, but no rear bumper and no roll pan looks pretty good

[bh86]

Interesting I've never really paid attention im gonna do some lookin and see what I can find for pics

[bh86]

I came across a cheap ls2 cam and was debating a cam swap. I've heard the cam sensor is in a different position but I googled it and didn't see much that made sense lol anybody know what the scoop is on these?

[bh86]

haven't updated much lately. Things have been busy but i've been able to make some good progress and should be able to drop the cab on this week and finish up all the little wiring stuff and get it started up. Got the motor pulled from the back of the shop and put it on the stand, stripped it down, cleaned it, put in new gaskets and replaced a few sensors. I had to replace the knock sensors since one was brittle and the top piece broke off when i pulled the wiring connector off it also was brittle and cracked so i ended up making a trip to the parts store and 150$ bucks later i had both sensors and the wiring harness...ouch. I swapped out the 2 wire temp sender for a three, and made a trip to the hardware and fitting place close by and put an adaptor together for the oil pressure sender also. Swapped the cts-v pan on while i was at it and painted things up a little.

[bh86]

a few more, had to take time out to fix my lil yota that had a front hub assembly go out. It's an annual occurrence lol she gets used

[bh86]

finally got the suspension stuff thrown together and was able to set it down on it's tires which is nice...oh and i did fix the brake lines and ball joint bolts thanks to tx firefighter, thanks again. I finally got the motor and tranny bolted together and decided i wasn't goin home til i got it all bolted in, i was working by myself but it's not a tough job with a good cherry picker and no body in the way. Everything was goin smooth and easy until i dropped it in and tried to throw the bolts in on the motor mounts and that's when i realized that i mounted the mounts in the wrong wholes on the towers...fml. So I had to lift it up enough to get into pull everything out, which isn't hard, but it def sucks getting the bolts from up inside the front crossmember when you don't have an extra set of hands and it's midnight lol i still can't believe I did that but what the hell, learned a lesson and won't do that again. But anyway, it's nice to have things taking shape finally. I have to apologize for the lack of detailed information. I'll get more detailed pics of some of the lil details along the way, I want to put in some actual useful and helpful info that I've come across along the way. I'm new to the online build stuff and I usually just start working and forget to document everything the way i ought to but I'm gonna start doing better with that, i've had a lot of help on this board and need to payback however i can.

[bh86]

I haven't posted anything for a while but the build has been going strong. I'll post more pics and info over the next few days but as of right now this is how she sits.

[Hankster]

I just read thru the Build, Looks good, I vote for keeping the back bumper for the sake that its different, and also, do you still have that No P/S Steering box? If so Please PM me. Thanks

[l92powered77]

Hey man nice 82 really liking the ls swap and body tear down you doing. definitely not scared of the elbow grease keep up good work!!