04' Colorado LS1 swap (Amy's Truck)

[Frenchy]

Nope thats a 30s-50s Ford logo that looks nothing like the V8 Colorado logo. But hey, it matches the rest of your Pep Boys vomited on your truck look.

[TRPLXL2]

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In the process of working on the wiring in the steering column, I managed to break the combination switch. Rockauto wanted $260.00 just for the switch, so I ended up buying the whole steering column minus the air bag for $100, It is much better now. Until next time!!

[bangbangskeetskeet]

In the newer fords or older ones?? I am thinking your talking about 30's style model A's, but no I did not know that.

The Model A never had a V8.

[Paulster2]

The Model A never had a V8.

He was just mentioning it as this is the "conversion" section ...

[bangbangskeetskeet]

He was just mentioning it as this is the "conversion" section ...

"He" is a she...and go back and re-read those posts pal...I said to her that V8 emblem was from Ford. She said like from the Model A? To which I replied that the Model A never had a V8. Which it never did from the factory so why would it come with a factory V8 emblem?

[TRPLXL2]

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We were out driving it the other day, and all of a sudden the truck just dies. Well we were only 5 miles from the house so I walked back and got the Silverado, and I pulled it back to the house. We found out the fuel pump took a crap, so we got a new fuel module complete through rockauto for $60.00.. Of course it went out when we had a full tank, 18 gallons made it kind of tricky to balance on the jack.

Until next time...................

[TRPLXL2]

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I'm not going to go on and on about the last few months, so I'll just list what we have done so far and then I'll post some pics.

Truck kept stalling, and not starting. We pulled the engine harness, and continuity testing revealed the oil pressure sensor wiring had a break in the ground wire. I removed the whole strand of wire and replaced it.

[TRPLXL2]

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We have been driving the truck for about 3 months now, no problems with it after I fixed the wiring. The gauges don't work at all, so we are going with an IPAD and the dash command app for our gauges. We're going to fiberglass it into the dash, where the factory gauge cluster used to be. Today we pulled the bed off the truck, and degreased and cleaned it.

[TRPLXL2]

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We are going to paint the bottom of the bed floor candy red, and buff out the back of the truck cab. Our current project is the rear axle, currently it has the AAM 8" rear axle. We bought an 07 TBSS 4x4 rear axle complete from rotor to rotor, including shocks, sway bar, panhard bar, and 4 bar thingies? $500.00 from Pick a Part, it had 26,000 miles on the unit and absolutely rust free. It has the 9.5 ring gear, 12" rotors, Eaton locker, 4.10 gears. We are also having a custom 1 piece driveshaft made from Henderson driveline, It's going to take a few months to get this all done but It will be worth it.

We are also pulling the stock gas tank out, and DBRods is going to make a fuel cell for us. I was impressed with his work, we are going to put it up front in the bed by the bulkhead.

Already removed all the brackets from the new axle, purchased new spring perches, Ubolts, shock mounts. Cal Tracs are also on the list of must have's. This is the winter project, until next update!!

[TRPLXL2]

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Ordered the perches, but the center hole was way to big so we had some washers welded in because the Colorado has really small locating pins. Waiting on parts and money, until next time!!