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Well this certainly changes things. Wife says ratchet strapping a child seat to the floor isn't acceptable so I had to come up with a better solution for a back seat. Busted out the sawzall and cut the old fairly useless island/table thing out and walled up the sides with 1/4 ply wrapped in the...

Man I love guys like you that absolutely refuse to purchase things. If I can make it myself, I'm going to!

Through out the summer, I had been hearing this god awful knocking sound coming from under the van on washboard and rough roads. Sounded like it was coming from under the pass. side back doors. Couldn't find anything loose, so I kind of ignored it but it just kept getting worse. Finally found it...

Too handsome for us, Neil. Also we are missing about $200k in equipment for you to be able to do your job.....

We were 2 weeks ago! Just missed ya

They do ok in the snow. Not the best. I'll say that I dont have them anymore. I'll post more about that later

Not much changed with the van over the summer of '19. I just used the hell out of it. We put 35,000 miles on the van that summer. Only thing that was added was a smittybilt winch. I went back and forth a lot on what I wanted to do for a winch and I chose this one because all the guys in the 4x4...

So now we are getting into spring 2019, Chris must have been pleased with the job I did on my van because he started sending people my way for conversions. First one was a partial conversion on a old people mover bus Next was a van that Ujoint had done in house that lives here in Denver. Just...

Fun little before and after

Through this I had done some work for Thule on an old Volvo 122 wagon they use in their trade show booth and also helped them out by letting them use my lot as a staging area for the outdoor retailer expo in town here. In return, they hooked me up with anything I wanted from their catalog. I got...

So after getting the new shims in, I had about 6 degrees of positive caster. Way more than enough, and it drove what I considered at the time 'good enough'. I was wrong, another thing we will circle back to. So now we start the interior build out. I should also note that I started tearing into...

So its friday afternoon, and as soon as I figured out that my tires had arrived at the local tire rack warehouse, I sent my old man over to pick them up because they couldn't deliver until monday. The shafts were also finished, so I went to grab those. Was a mad dash of excitement, So I didn't...

Front end all complete! This was an exciting step, really started seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I really enjoy assembling these front axles. This first assembly didn't take though, learned some valuable lessons. I'll touch on those later. You'll see I've got the Ujoint assembly...

Got the shackle bushing sleeves welded in without much fuss thanks to the great cut jig that Ujoint supplies. Also trimmed the engine cross member and mounted up the front bumper. I also cleaned up and painted the frame. While I was waiting on the gears to come in for the axles, I got to work...

As soon as I got shipping confirmation on the leaf springs, the van came into the shop and got torn down, not to leave my lift again until it was 4x4. Now for drilling in the hangers. Not a fun exercise for a dude with two blown out rotator cuffs. Springs were still on the truck somewhere, so...

Hey Buddy! Glad you are still running good! Thought This belonged in your thread!

Alright, now it's running like a top. Time to source some axles. I found a guy parting out a f-350 locally that had the front axle, shaft, t case and other little odds and ends I needed. Bought it all for $800! Got that all back to the shop and tore it apart to start the rebuild Being that its...

As anyone who has done a Ujoint conversion knows, the worst part is coming up next. The 15 week wait for the custom leaf springs. It feels like it lasts a lifetime. Thats fine, there was plenty of other stuff that came up that I needed to take care of. The guy I bought it from must have filled...

After a tough month of trying to sell 3 cars at the same time, everything was finally gone except my Volvo 240 race car. One day while talking to Chris, he realized I was a Volvo guy and started telling me about how he was ready to put in a order on what I consider pretty much the lamest...

First thing I did was gut the interior for some reason. Probably because I was really dreading addressing the roof. Well, cant avoid it forever. I started off with a flap wheel on my grinder but it was slow and tedious work. Also dusty. All bad. So next up was aircraft stripper. This worked...