Continuing from here:

http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/o...sed-truck.html

I'll get some pictures up asap.

 

one of the best damn looking trucks ever! good luck with it!

 

These are the pictures the dealer took before the detailing. All the aluminum remains unpolished.











Good from far, but far from good.

 

Oh I don't know, She's got good bones. Good rubber and the Air Glide 400 suspension. A little aluminum polish will go a long way. You don't see too many with internal air filter and side exhaust. I drive a '98 studio with a shorter wheelbase, fuel tanks under the doors and a tiny little M11 and I like it alot.

 

I didn't add the specs

2002 T800
12.7 DDC IV 500 HP
13 Speed
3.55 gears (would've preferred 3.70s)
22.5LP tires - all fairly new
Espar Engine heater
Espar Bunk heater
Side exhaust, internal air cleaner
70" sleeper
Grey VIT interior
Davco heated fuel filter (oddly enough there's no main fuel filter?)
120 gallon tanks
236" or so wheelbase
AG200 upgraded to AG400 rear suspension
Some gauges - need to add tranny temp, diff temps, and a pyro

Projects over the next few days:

- Finish DRL install and get RIV inspection done
- Remove upper fairing
- Change all oils and filters
- Adjust wheel stops
- Install TPMS
- Install oil bypass filter
- Headache rack
- Full fenders
- Replace rear fairing brackets with stainless brackets
- Battery/starter/alternator
- Full brake job (Centrifuse drums, Platinumshield shoes, Lifeseal brake chambers, Stemco wheel seals, Stemco pro torq wheel end products, wheel bearings/s-cams/bushings will be as needed)
- Air compressor
- Air dryer
- Polish everything up
- All shocks
- Grease job
- Adjust clutch
- Adjust steering box (looks like it has to be removed to do this)
- Install wheel balancers
- Stemco kaiser kingpins
- Valve set

Trying to keep it reasonable here...

 

Further down the road projects:

- Aftermarket exhaust manifold + turbo
- PPP engine balancer and damper
- Engine rebuild that won't be standard (out of frame with more internal machinework than usual to really tweak efficiency)
- APU (diesel or battery not sure)
- 244" wheelbase
- ~100" sleeper
- Custom enclosed headache rack
- Nice set of pipes
- Custom paint job
- Paint the frame

 

Yeah I noticed that. That little upgrade cost me close to 3,000 in parts + labour IIRC. So it's good that's already done.

You should have a much easier time than I did installing mine on a two-thirty-something wheelbase, sixty something bunk with exhaust behind the bunk.

Where do you get stainless ones? I've been making my own from the corners of farmers gates.....it amounts to 1" square tube bent 90 degrees. Works good. Don't forget to isolate the steel from the aluminum with rubber.

 

Why do you think I insisted on getting side exhaust?

Kenworth part #K275-6001SS

SS fairing bracket LF4

$44.00 each

They even gave me the small screws for the fairings, but not the bolts that go into the sleeper. I'm having a real bitch of a time removing those.

Today(thursday the 2nd):

- Finished oil change
- Finished DRL install and put together dash
- Two front shocks
- Adjusted steering box (required partial removal)
- Dicked around with steering stops, only to realize it's the steering box that sets the limits. It doesn't even come close to the limiters on the axle!
- Removed lower two fairing brackets (with some damage)
- Finished p/s filter/oil change
- Did one rear brake chamber
- Both front brake chambers, needs two new slacks (they were different brands anyways)

Discovered:

- Passenger side step has no provisions for storage
- The truck only has 3 batteries

 

it nice but steering wheel on the wrong side haha

 

Scrapping the idea of polishing the wheels myself. It's way too much work even with a polisher. I don't know how you stop it from jumping around on the holes either.