Gear swap weekend

[txarkitekt]

Dude--what a whip in the arse this weekend was...

Friday night started out with a friend of my boss's wife--her 03 Z71 with 198k miles was running rough and stumbling at low rpms... She had taken the truck to several shops around the area and spent several thousand dollars trying to get it to run decent. Well, the problem was that she hadn't taken it to Dale and I! Long story short, we did our little adjustments--and without a tune, it will ROAST the rear tires...I know, trust me. Also fixed her horn so that she can get it inspected. HAHHA, funny story to that--she had tried to get it fixed 3 times, and 3 new horns...but still wouldn't work. I went straight to the underhood fuse panel and replced the 15 amp fuse...

SO Saturday rolls around and we get Nick's truck (B.O.H.I.C.A.) 3.23s out and set some 3.73s in there. He also installed a CAI--and WOW--the CAI and gears woke his truck up!!! It freakin hauls asp now. He is ordering a set of LTS and ORY this next week. He also is looking into a 85mm TB, pulleys, etc. He already has a 3000 stall and 216/220 .525/.535 114 LSA cam.

And today we did Virgil's gears. He switched from the 4.10s to the 3.23s. Everything went well (except for O'Reilly's giving us the wrong bearings) and his rear end was setup nice and tight.

Here's some pics:

I used Dale's toothbrush to put on the mustard to check the wear patterns as we set up the gears...











Spinning the yoke to smear (that is a gross word) the mustard to check the wear patterns...



And look! The coast pattern looks good...



..and the drive pattern looks good...



AND SUCCESS! Gears were set up perfect the first time! High Five Dale! Oh, and you also get to see my SUPER SEXY legs... Garrisson, stop drooling please.



The gears and TrueTrac are in! Yay--Virgil gets to go home and sleep...



And I am ready to get out from under Clifford....



Well girls, there you have it. Two successful gears swaps in a weekend. I hope these kids are ready for Ennis.

[WARLOCK]

Whats V doin with the 4:10s?

[Botlfed]

was virgil a little sleepy

[txarkitekt]

Whats V doin with the 4:10s?

Dale has them...they might go on his truck, but....

was virgil a little sleepy

Yeah, you must have given him lots of lovin to keep him up till 5 am....

[Botlfed]

Dale has them...they might go on his truck, but....



Yeah, you must have given him lots of lovin to keep him up till 5 am....

it was 7am not 5 man i was wasted

[WARLOCK]

Dale has them...they might go on his truck, but....:

But? lol

[mean05]

yeah it felt great cruising home at 80ish and only being at 3000 rpm's

Yes i was freaking tired, friday night being up till 4:30 then waking up at 8 with the lovely Ian calling wanting to start the cam swap them going to Tulsa for the midnight drags and not getting back to Mac till 7 and going to sleep at 7:30 an then getting up again at 10 to head back to Texas for my gear swap....needless to say when i made it home at 11 last night i passed smooth out

[PEDROG]

good job, must be nicer now Virg

[DBRODS]

Dude--what a whip in the arse this weekend was...





The gears and TrueTrac are in! Yay--Virgil gets to go home and sleep...



And I am ready to get out from under Clifford....



Well girls, there you have it. Two successful gears swaps in a weekend. I hope these kids are ready for Ennis.

Man that has to suck doing gears on the ground, thank goodness for lifts...

[COWL327]

Its not too bad in the floor! We were both under there with lots of room....

And for Parker.......THIS IS ME USING MY FRIENDS spending all of my weekend doing stuff for fellow members for free!.....Dang Im a terriable guy! Anybody else that ever helped me with money when i needed it or supported me when i needed it are also welcome to come to my house anytime for help with anything i can help with....except for Tyler that keeps blocking my garage with the GQ!