Cold Weather Progress

It was another wet and nasty day.  With all the Christmas stuff done, there wasn't anything standing between me and progress.  It was in the low 40's this morning so I cranked up the new heater and brought it up 20 degrees in 20 minutes.

My first order of business was to find out why that dang fuel gauge wasn't working and determined that the instrument panel voltage regulator (IPVR) is bad.  There might be one in the donor truck but I wasn't willing to go out in the cold rain to get it.  So on to the exhaust.

In small increments of time over the last couple of weeks I managed to get some of the needed angles cut to get the 2.5" pipe to the back of the cab and get one set of hanger mounts made.  Today required a tremendous amount of patients that paid off.  Working with the door closed on the garage is like working in a closet but the heat was worth it.

Bolt it on and take it off was the process and it happened about 5 times for each side.  My focus was to get good clearance and have a position at the back of the cab to mount the mufflers.  By mounting the mufflers under the bed, I am hopeful that this will help with the noise reduction inside the cab.

I picked up some generic exhaust mounting bands from O'Reily's and made the brackets for them out of 3/8" hot roll steel that I had left over from another project.  So far I am happy with the result.