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Onto some more serious shots.
Here's a pic of what looks to be...some sort of bearing welded to a plate.
In fact, there's two of them on each side.
Maybe it'll make more sense here...
Turns out, those are Toyota throwout bearings. I found a dusty box of them in the attic at the garage. They are the exact inner diameter to fit the rubber mounts on both the intercooler and radiator, and also the exact depth for the bushings to sit in them nicely.
Here's the anatomy: that formed 1/4" plate for the radiator support, where you can see the intercooler bushings sitting in those bearings. The whole support and the front clip is mounted to the body at the stock front body mounts, using these angle brackets we made with a Chevy trans mount bushing in between.
That'll be finished up tomorrow.
The other thing is some pics of the motor mount crossmember...I apologize for the quality, as it doesn't really do it justice...but hopefully you'll get some idea of what we have going on.
This is from the passenger side, looking forward past the oil pan. The cylindrical object is the Dodge starter, which is relocated to the Ford side via the fordcummins.com bellhousing adapter plate.
A shot from the bottom of the passenger side looking up...that nut poking through is on the bolt that passes through the motor mount. It looks similar on the front side.
Here's the driver's side, looking towards the front.
Again, I'll try and get some better pics, but with everything assembled it's a little hard.
We've got it starting and flipping the fuel solenoid via the stock key ignition, which is pretty cool. The clutch is all hooked up and bled...so it's getting very tempting to find a driveshaft that fits and start driving it around. However, we've made the decision to not even look at the driveshaft until it's a lot closer to being done...because honestly, as soon as it moves, it'll be driving around a LOT more than it'll be in the garage being worked on.
Stay tuned.
Here's a pic of what looks to be...some sort of bearing welded to a plate.
In fact, there's two of them on each side.
Maybe it'll make more sense here...
Turns out, those are Toyota throwout bearings. I found a dusty box of them in the attic at the garage. They are the exact inner diameter to fit the rubber mounts on both the intercooler and radiator, and also the exact depth for the bushings to sit in them nicely.
Here's the anatomy: that formed 1/4" plate for the radiator support, where you can see the intercooler bushings sitting in those bearings. The whole support and the front clip is mounted to the body at the stock front body mounts, using these angle brackets we made with a Chevy trans mount bushing in between.
That'll be finished up tomorrow.
The other thing is some pics of the motor mount crossmember...I apologize for the quality, as it doesn't really do it justice...but hopefully you'll get some idea of what we have going on.
This is from the passenger side, looking forward past the oil pan. The cylindrical object is the Dodge starter, which is relocated to the Ford side via the fordcummins.com bellhousing adapter plate.
A shot from the bottom of the passenger side looking up...that nut poking through is on the bolt that passes through the motor mount. It looks similar on the front side.
Here's the driver's side, looking towards the front.
Again, I'll try and get some better pics, but with everything assembled it's a little hard.
We've got it starting and flipping the fuel solenoid via the stock key ignition, which is pretty cool. The clutch is all hooked up and bled...so it's getting very tempting to find a driveshaft that fits and start driving it around. However, we've made the decision to not even look at the driveshaft until it's a lot closer to being done...because honestly, as soon as it moves, it'll be driving around a LOT more than it'll be in the garage being worked on.
Stay tuned.