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Old 05-30-2009, 07:37 PM
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Super glue fuses the parts together almost instantly so for the best repair try to only push them together once. Also, there may be some excess glue that will run away from the crack.

For the best repair, let the glue cure overnight.
 
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Pick up a new stock A pillar from the Junkyard if you need to. I just drilled holes in the stock A pillar where I needed to pass wires through. I recall it did take just the right push and twist to get the A pillar to seat correctly.

The Mopar interior paint doesn't need an adhesion promoter, it's mixed in and is some of the best interior paint I've ever used. No issues at all with peeling or fish eyes on a clean surface.

I have had good luck with the 3M emblem and trim adhesive on my 2 pillar pod.
 
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Thanks on the heads up on the mopar paint. And I said squrew it with the gluing stuff I just face sqrewed the stock apillar on and will mount my After market one to it. I also drilled holes through the stock apillar to rought my wires through.






And yeah thoes are just fish wires.
 
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Hey guys I am going to be adding three gauges to my truck(water temp, tranny temp and oil pressure all 2 1/16") I really like the look of something like a (autometer) cobalt 2 gauge look but I want the background to be black at night like the phantom 2 does. I would get the phantom 2 but I cant spend 170 right now on guages. Any help finding somethig similar would be great.
 
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You can check these guy's out http://www.speedhut.com/ A little cheaper and a lot more custom
 
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Hey thanks man they look like very nice gauges but they seem to be almost twice as much. I will keep looking

They are all too expensive so I just went and bought the phantom by auto meter. Getting my engine quest heads the end of this week! And my cam and programmer soon
 

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Well I bought the regular phantom but they still cost a crapload. We have about three weeks to have this thing road worth. The heads are in the mail and so is the cam!
 
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Yeah autometer **** ain't cheap lol
 
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well putting in my suregrip grear end today and pullings some wires for my apillar. Also getting a bung welded on to my intake for my temp sensor. Willl be picking up mmy freshly rebuilt rearend(Thanks dad!) also need a bung welded in that pan for the temp sensor. Will post pics soon.
 
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okies, an update for my project.

i was originally gonna try and set a budget, but after doing research and knowing i always blow things outta portion anyways heh this is what i got so far.

I picked up a Eagle 408 stroker kit
Competition cam with 112 degree lift,
all the gaskets from mopar,
lifters from mopar,
set of edlebrock performer aluminum heads. - that blew the budget outta whack... which is total over kill, i know... i know...

a couple reasons why... i read here a lot of ppl had problems with the stock heads, with the amount of power the new engine is making, i didnt want to have to re-do anything and screw myself in a month because i was trying to cheap out. The old ones had 114k miles on it... if i wanted to use the old ones, the engine shop would have to machine them out, use a lower compression setting... as crazy as it seems... it just didnt make any sense to use them.

just trying to figure out what rocker arms/push rods i want...

i also wanted to get a few suggestions... i figure the new engine should make 380+ HP, which brings me to my next dilemma ... how much hp can the stock tranny take? what have other ppl done when upgrading the engine? i dont want to twist the tranny outta bottom of the truck the first time i put my foot into it. I like having fun, i know i wont be able to keep my foot off the pedal and baby it either...

i will be taking the engine into the shop once i get heads either today or tomorrow.
 


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