I was at the S&W junkyard in Lithonia yesterday, and they have a 1990 XLT that isn't on their online inventory. The front bench was in pretty awesome shape, I probably would have bought it if I thought I could fit it in my Jetta :P

There was also a neat storage rack (custom?) behind the bench seat, I should have grabbed it... kicking myself now. There's a Pull-A-Part right around the corner from there, so if you go, make sure to stop at both. Lithonia is about two hours west of Augusta, so make sure your exhaust is 100% before heading out!

 

Well I have my SUV that allows for plenty of parts hauling space. The exhaust pipe will supposedly be in tomorrow morning. I say it that way as I feel like it's a crap shoot. Since it was supposed to be here every day since Tuesday.

 

Exhaust pipe finally arrived, so time to climb under the hood and get to work.



Mufflers to

 

2 minutes in and Rain....



Well played mother nature,
​​​well played

 

Well it cleared up a bit later in the day.
​​day. So I went back at it. 16 exhaust manifold bolts. Amazing they all came out

Couple we're close calls but it was a good day. Old exhaust is out, tontomor the new exhaust goes in.



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Interested to know how you like the new exhaust! Mine is factory, for now.

 

With a little luck I will have intial thoughts on it tomorrow. I'm hoping the header install goes smoothly. The rest from there should be easy.

 

Did you build or buy that front bumper? I noticed the radius on the upper outer part.

 

It came on the truck I thought it was stock.

The starter died I think. I went for the open header fire up and got a thunk.


So installation of the headers was stupid easy. Biggest obstacle was pulling the front drive shaft to install the drivers side header. Cool part was I found the front ujoint had failed. So I will get that sorted with 2 fresh joints.

I will add a few pics later as the upload option is not working.

 

 

Finally took a bit of time out to mess with the F150 today. Pulled the starter boy did that give me a laugh seeing he all pro mounting job.... So much Bubba.



I seriously wonder if the washers cost more than the right bolt would have




I pulled the second one and realized they must have run out of washers...



Yup that is a large nut that took up the extra length...

So the starter our and replaced I moved my attention to the fender mounted solenoid.




Found that it was dead to and that the signal wire was bare and twisted together.... So I soldered it together and heat shrink covered it for good measure.



From there I cleaned up a few things with the grounds getting them to better spots and while I was putting the starter back into place I noticed the power feed to it was missing about an inch of the insulation on the wire. So out came more heat shrink




The last thing I did with it for the afternoon was replace the positive battery cable and repaired and heat shrinked an accessory wire.

 

Following to see how this turns out. I would like to make my 90 into a trial/overland rig. I have about 85-90% needed to SAS the front. I was iffy on doing it as I didn't want to lift it higher but now I am set on a rig the 4" lift wouldn't be bad.