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Been forever since I did any work on the truck. Life happened….still gotta redo the rear brakes. But found a fey bumper on Craigslist, for a Mazda/Ranger but it’ll do its job until I can build a new one. Wanted a dirt bound bumper but shipping is $150 alone. I’m into the bumper $190 with steel I used to make the brackets. Slowly getting her ready to put back on the road.

There’s a bunch of us over in the “epic build” section.

Some pics as it sits….don’t mind the wiring, still trying to narrow down some stuff I can’t find. Need A/C wiring, tach, oil pressure sensor wire, some other odds and ends before I wrap it all up. Things I still need to do… -order missing trim -rear bumper and brackets -new center console for shifter -redo brakes front and rear -finish mid pipe on exhaust

Small update, things have been slow going as I’m back in school and have a kid coming. Truck runs and drives now, doesn’t stop well. Had a small setback with the Holley harness and ecu….trans wouldn’t shift out of first, luckily found out they mislabeled the connectors at the trans. Still have a lot to do before I can call the swap “complete”.

was able to pull it out of garage to try clean and organize. Brakes are spongy, thinking it’s because of the bigger brakes on front axle. Long way from being “finished” but it hasn’t moved under its own power in almost 2 years, so I call it a win.

Don’t mind the mess of wiring, trying to figure out what is still “needed” from body harness. Got the fan relay wired into the holley so tried it out. Temp sits around 185-195 just idling. IMG_1426.MOV

I’ll throw my name in the pool of OG owners. My dad bought our ‘86 brand new, originally he was gonna get a CJ but wanted a bed. Truck has been back and forth from Hawaii to the mainland several times. The truck was given to me in high school, which is when I found CC. It’s in the registry and one of you was kind enough to decode the vin with all its options. There’s some old photos running around, if I ever find them I’ll post em.

Been slow going but got the fan shroud made and mounted, and got the driveshafts made. A pair of fans would probably be better but wouldn’t fit in the area I had. It’s a 16” flexalite lopro fan, advertised to pull 3k cfm.

For shifting the trans I went with the winters sidewinder shifter. Looking back now I would’ve ordered the flat mount instead of with the console. Console didn’t fit so made one. I don’t know how I feel about it and may make another eventually. And for exhaust I ended up cutting the collector mounts and welding on some Vband mounts. Probably one of my biggest regrets. It makes the headers fit in nicer but bolting then collector pipe on in an 8” lifted truck is a pain.

Truck is not driving yet but wanted to make a list of stuff I used to LS swap this truck. Just in case anyone is looking for info. I didn’t go 100% Novak for budget reasons...put that $ saved on the headers, and cooling into the computer system. This wasn’t cheap by any means and it’s not done yet. -2003 5.3L and 4L60e -LS1 intake -holley fuel rails -LS1 injectors -Novak mounts -Novak transfercase adapter -Novak cable shifter (had to bend the bracket to make the cable work) -Novak transmission mount w/homemade plate -Becool LS universal radiator 22x19” (would’ve gone with a shorter one) -2000 camaro manifolds -Ict billet PS and alternator accessory brackets -Holley Terminator X Max computer and harness -C5 corvette fuel filter/regulator

Thanks for the welcome back! Been a long time, figured share a bit of the changes. Debating on making a small how to LS thread to just post up the hurdles and things I’ve decided to do to make it work out. Just waiting on driveshafts and gotta make a fan shroud this week and put in the fan.

Haven’t posted in years, truck has been slow going because of other things. But truck got a waggy front 44 and finishing up an LS swap.

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Possibly, but I would think if it was warped it would give trouble immediately on start up. Flywheel is new, fired it up yesterday after work and it idles fine now...so maybe I gotta go drive and put load on the motor to get it to do it again