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Rae Champoux
iZook Guru's Ultimate Project Build Off - Truck Two
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 We
were thinking, at least a little bit here and there. We left that huge smitty
bumper on the front that had the tabs attached to it for the tow bar and the
next day we took it to the wash your own car wash and hosed it off good. That
way we had a cleaner frame to start welding and attaching parts to. That was the
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  Then
I opened my mouth. I asked Mitch, my husband, "We aren’t going to leave the
engine and transmission in the frame are we?" He says "No, we need to take that
out too, since the engine needs to be rebuilt, we might as well pull it now and
be done with it." He says "Why you want to pull it?" Now there are a lot of
things that I do not know how to do in the garage, but I know how to turn a
wrench. So I give him a funny look and say "Yeah". He starts in talkin' about
the impact and blah blah blah. I am not listening, I have wheeled the tool box
out of the garage and started diggin' thru it for tools. I know, I know,
  someone
is thinking she did not take that out with hand tools. Yep, you betcha.
Ok so I lack some sense sometimes. I grab a socket and a breaker bar , I ask
which bolts need to be taken out and start wrenchin' on the bolts. Did I mention
that it was like 90 degrees that day? I was wearing black and jeans? In the sun?
Again, proof that I don’t always use my brain. I was roasting alive and getting
ticked off because I was having a hard time of things. I couldn’t get the socket
and the ratchet on some of them because of the space constraints. So I am
working on things with an open end wrench ¼ turn at a time.
 Mitch
was keeping himself busy fixing some rust spots on our old Dodge Dakota. I was
so mad I could have probably made up a new swear word. I finally gave in and had
Mitch come break one of the bolts loose for me and show me where to attach the
chains for the cherry picker. We ended up getting it out and not a moment too
soon either because I had about had it.
Jim and Mitch have been working on setting up the rear end. Really taking their time to make sure that everything goes right. Have I said to make sure to read all the instructions before you start digging in to putting the Rocky Road Outfitters coil suspension on? Let me say it now. Read the directions. Read them cover to cover. They are not meant to be a step by step manual but if you read them you will be a lot better off than if you don’t.
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Well
we are still at it. It has taken a lot longer than we expected. The delays are
many. Lets start with the run down of the last month’s work on truck two. The
cool one. 
01/10/2006 18:55
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