Project Hardshell

[Tate]

SIDE PIPE BABY. I take back everything I said. It lives.

[TheCrabMaster]

that looks dope! i did something similar on my dakota a while back. you should make a plate for around it, the square cutout looks kinda funny.

I'm going too, I just ran out of time on the weekend to make one, literally finished the exhaust at like 8:30 last night then had to drive home about a hour so I could be up for work at 4am today. But yeah man I love the way it turned out

[TheCrabMaster]

SIDE PIPE BABY. I take back everything I said. It lives.

HAHA YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Some other things ive bought recently.

Fancy Carbon fiber shift knob.... Mmmmmmmmmmm

Copious amounts of gold reflective tape for the bottom of the cab to help keep the heat downish.

Finally cased and bought prebuilt LED headlights because I don't feel like finishing mine haha

Also got a LED third brake light off a 07 Silverado and modified the cab to fit it.
Looks pretty dope, and should hopefully keep morons off the tailgate.
And because I like be as trendy as possible, picked up red LED strip for sweet windshield brake light.

That's all for now, Given the state of Florida is above water after this tropical storm, I should have more updates this weekend.

[TheCrabMaster]

Another walk around/ running clip.

A video posted by Noah Lytle (@dacrabmasta) on Sep 4, 2016 at 3:13pm PDT

Things are slowly going back on, have a bunch more parts going on this weekend!

[Tate]

[TheCrabMaster]

YEAH BOI!!!!
I got a shiny new radiator awaiting my return home tomorrow. So this weekend task is to pull old radiator and hoses. And replace with bigger aluminum radiator with new hoses, thermostat and gonna throw a crank seal in. Then Gonna try and finish painting the truck so I can finish putting all the lights on!!!!!

[TheCrabMaster]

Did some work this weekend. One thing I needed to address was belts and hoses. So figured if I was doing hoses and draining the coolant might as well upgrade the radiator. And since they don't make aluminum radiators for the trucks, I went with a s13 ka radiator. Got a cheaper just generic ebay one which should work fine for the time being.

So obviously to start off I had to drain the coolant. Then when I had it all out, cleaned everything up and gave everything a nice coat of paint.


Then mocked up the new radiator.


Its a little smaller in height but is a 2 row so its thicker than stock so it should be sufficient.
So in order to mount the 240 rad I had to think of something to mount the top. The bottom was easy just drilled some holes and got the height I wanted with cut hose.

So I came up with the idea to replicate this mount on the old radiator.

So took the old radiator brackets, drilled and cut them to make it look like this...

Then with the grommet. And this is how it will make the whole operation work.

I will build ducting for the front to force air through this bad boy.

Also I got another gallon of paint, went a hair lighter in color so truck should be painted over the next couple weekends. That's all for now!

[TheCrabMaster]

Got most of the truck painted last weekend

Very similar color to the other one just a little lighter shade.

Hopefully get more done tomorrow!

Then I started building the base for the front radiator air duct. Just used some aluminum angle, then going to build the rest once I see clearances with the grill and bumper on.

[mx5_matt]

soon!

[TheCrabMaster]

Look air duct thingyyyy!

A video posted by Noah Lytle (@dacrabmasta) on Sep 25, 2016 at 12:08pm PDT

This is where ill leave that for now till I fit the front bumper sometime. Then anything cardboard will be made out of shiny aluminum. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[rice4life]

I've been playing the shit out of the California album since it came out.

Glad to see so much stuff happening to the truck as of late.

[TheCrabMaster]

I've been playing the shit out of the California album since it came out.

Glad to see so much stuff happening to the truck as of late.

Yeah man i wish I had more time to work on it but I only come back in town on weekends so it's been slow for the past 3 months. But in good news should be getting it road legal in the next couple weeks hopefully.

[EricT93]

Roll on paint? Thats awesome! Great work as always. Excited to see this thing slay some tires.

[TheCrabMaster]

I did some things. Got more stuff coming in the mail this week and hopefully a plate coming soon!

A photo posted by Noah Lytle (@dacrabmasta) on Oct 2, 2016 at 5:49pm PDT

A photo posted by Noah Lytle (@dacrabmasta) on Oct 9, 2016 at 5:55pm PDT

[TheCrabMaster]

Made a sweet fuse / relay panel. Hidden behind the glovebox.

A photo posted by Noah Lytle (@dacrabmasta) on Oct 16, 2016 at 5:45pm PDT