ICT billet. https://www.jegs.com/i/ICT-Billet/33...tent=Evergreen

 

Holy crap you spared no expense on this build. Damn that is nice. Im jealous. Now the next thing you need to do is sell it to me... 😆 Great job.

 

Amazing truck! Love the color combo. Good for you. 😊

 

Man, that is turning out amazing. I agree with wisconsincanman, that color combo is absolutely fantastic. Congrats man.

 

Like the others have said - nicely done all the way around! That truck is CLEAN! I'd love to see pics of how you did the AMP steps if you have a few. I always like seeing how other people tackle things.

 

Ok, just curious: How many gallons of Red paint ?

When I repainted my '77, inside of cab and box, but no color underside, I used 5-gallons of PPG Acrylic single stage paint.
The cab was painted with the box off.

Man a livin, that pickup looks PRETTY. _ _ _ very nice labor-of-love.
You will be smiling like a 17-year old with a new girlfriend.

 

Thanks. I used almost 4 gallons red plus 1 gallon white single stage urethane and 2 gallons tinted urethane bed liner inside bed.

 

The power steps aren’t Amp research. They are new take off Factory Ford. I disassembled them. They are modular. I adjusted the hinge attaching spot spacing ( full length slotted channel) to best fit the 1977 rocker panel. Fabricated these brackets and shortened the little driveshafts to fit the spacing. When they are up they are tight to the rocker. The pic of them up is before final fabrication of the mounting brackets. I got them more than an inch closer. I can put my finger between rocker and running board on up position.
I have a factory PRB module that I am trying to figure out CAN bus triggering out on. If I cannot go that route, I have a back up plan of N/O timed open signal relays to operate motor reversing relays. Still working on that communication and the remote start/ keyless entry part.

 

Dbeers, do you have any more pictures of your running board brackets mounted on the truck? I have the same Ford takeoff boards and was trying to figure out mounting as well. I read somewhere that the boards can be triggered with an AMP controller, but I haven't verified that yet. I'd be really curious to see what you come up with.

 

I can get some more pics. I have spent a lot of time working in the deployment of the boards. I have had a couple long conversations with Amp research and been flatly told that is a misconception. Maybe just their “liability” answer.

From what I know, the amp research module senses the electrical load increase as a signal to shut of motors. The motors are “clocked” to stop at up and down so that movement stops.

Ford uses a Hall effect sensor, basically a proximity switch, for locating where movement is with a couple inputs.

Amp research tech explains that the gear ratio and clocking will not work with their module.
The Ford module has all this in it. Reverses the operation by reversing polarity of motors, position location up or down, error message back to BCM.
So the module is self contained except CAN bus signal for when to deploy or retract.
Here is the in/out signals and power schematic for the Ford module. (



If you figure out something let me know.
I may end up adding a BCM and keyless antenna, connecting it and the PRB module with twisted pair communication and then reprogramming the BCM. I have a friend at Ford I have been bouncing ideas off of.

 

@ChaseTruck754 BTW I have the Amp power steps I got from you installed on my crew cab. We ended up not using one or two of the brackets you provided and fabbed up some new ones.

I've been telling myself for weeks that I need to create a post about the install

 

Whenever you get to posting let me know. I'd love to see what they did.

 

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures / documentation of the amp power step installation on my 75 crew cab. The steps I used are part # 75113-01A, which are for '99-06 Chevy / GMC crew cab trucks.

Here are some of the brackets used for the mounting. The black bracket is what we used for the front arm mount. Stainless steel angle brackets are used to mount to the pinch weld seam and required notching the seam for the allen head bolts /screws to go through. As I think about it instead of notching we could have made holes but with the mounting locations the inclusion of a washer will help hold the bolt to the seam. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the larger / longer rear brackets off the truck.




Here is the drivers side front mount. You can see that it bolts through the cross member where the front seat mounting bolt holes straddle and to the side of the inside cab seam



This picture gives you the best view of what I mean by the 'inside cab seam.'


Here's the rear passenger view:


This shows you how far back the step is mounted. It goes to the middle of the back of the cab, roughly lining up with the center of the in-cab fuel filler cap.


This picture is looking up at the bracket supporting the rear motor to the cab step. We used nutserts for the mounting bolts into the cab. You can see it took more than one attempt to get the placement right on the drivers side which was the first side we attempted.



Steps tuck up quite nicely:


I opted to have them tuck up tightly, which means the steps are a little angled down, rather than perfectly level as you step in / out.


Here is the drivers side step fully retracted / up :


Front passenger mount. Again you can see that the arm is mounted in front of the cross member where the front of the seat bolts are located. The left bolt is mounted to the top of the arm, so this view is looking from a little above and closer to the frame.


Here's the front passenger side with the step down so you can see the mounting setup a little better



Here is the rear passenger side mount as you can see written in sharpie on the bracket:


Rear passenger motor mount. You can see the wiring loom running outside the frame rail, zip tied to the edge of the long bracket where the seat mount bolts are located.


I still have an in-cab fuel tank so you can see we had to make sure the rear passenger mount did not interfere with the fuel return line. I don't have this tank hooked up at the moment hence the steel line is not connected to anything next to the bracket.


Drivers side step in the down position:


We added relays and diodes for both the driver and passenger sides to get the door controllers working with the interior door jamb switch wiring. I'll amend this post once I get pictures of those.

Link to Google Drive: Video of amp powerstep going up

 

Fab up a removable mount and installed the roof tent. Picked up the like new tent off of marketplace. It is easily removable when I don’t need it. Can’t wait to use it this spring.

 

That looks like a pretty good tent setup. Going to hit the Rubicon with that setup this year?