Putting in a window

Okay, so my friend thought it was a good idea to ram his four wheeler into my door... And my window was down and it blew up in my door

Tools you need:
• Philips screw driver
• Needle nose pliers
• Flat head screw driver
• Sockets and wrenches

Parts you need:
• a window

Removing:
• Take the screws holding the door panel out
• Take the little metal clip out of the window arm and pull that out
• Remove the door panel
• Now take the little bolts out holding the window assembly in
• Remove the whole assembly from the door

Prep:
• Vaccume out the glass from inside your door
• Take the new window out of it's assembly

Installing:
• Attach the new assembly in place and hand tighten it
• Slide the new window in and connect it to the assembly
• Tighten everything down
• Put the door panel on and screw it in
• Put the arm on and put the clip in
• Roll your window up and down a few times to make sure it works
• Then ur good to go

Blinker problem

Are you having a problem where when ever you turn on the head lights, one of you blinker lights on the dash stays on and your running light doesn't work? even after you changed the bulbs? Well i figured out what was causing the to happen, you need a new light socket for that running light. Its really easy to fix.

• First take out the light that doesn't work
• Take a wire snips and cut the 3 wires
• Take the socket to your nearest auto parts store and get a new one
• Connect the wires with heat shrink butt connecters
• Make sure you connect them to the right wires
• Put a bulb in the socket
• Put it back in the running light assembly and it should work

That was a problem that i could not figure out for the life of me, then my friend told me how he had the same problem on his truck

Putting in spark plugs and wires

Tools you need:

• A ratchet and corresponding sprak plug socket

Parts you need:

• 8 spark plugs
• 8 spark plug wires

Removal:

• Do one spark plug at a time
• Take the wire off the plug
• Remove the plug without breaking it
• Look up the gap specs to your truck and gap the spark plugs
• Now put the plug in and tighten it by hand
• Take the ratchet and tighten it until it gets snug, then tighten it a quarter turn
• Now pull that wire off the distributor and put a new one in replacement
• Do this same procedure all the way around

Putting in an aluminum intake

So I traded my subs for an edlebrock aluminum intake manifold. so i'm going to tell you how to put it in.

Tools you need:

• Torque wrench
• Various sized wrenchs and sockets
• Pry bar
• Screw drivers

Parts you need:

• Edelbrock aluminum intake manifold (preferably set up for carberated, TBI sucks)
• New 4 barrel carberator (Edelbrock 600-650 max on a 305)
• Intake gasket
• New HEI distributor (non-electronic if you are swapping to carberated)
• New distributor gasket
• New carb gasket

Taking off the intake manifold:

• First off, disconnect the battery
• Then take the bolts out of the carb/throttle body
• Remove the fuel and vaccume lines
• Unplug the throttle body
• Set the throttle body off to the side
• Take the distributor out
• Disconect everything else bolted to the intake mainifold
• Take out the thermostat
• Take off the hoses for the heater core
• Take out the intake bolts that go in the heads
• Once EVERYTHING is disconected, pull off the manfold

Prepping for the new manifold

• Clean all the gasket stuff off the heads
• Match up the intake manifolds (old and new) to see if the have the same bolt pattern
• Make sure your new manifold has the same set up for the carberator you got, because you can get ones set up for a 2 & 4 barrel carb, and one for a TBI. So make sure you get the corresponding carb/tbi for your intake

Instaling the new manifold

• Put the new gaskets on the heads
• RTV the crap out of where the manifold sits
• Place the new manifold on
• Thread the bolts back in hand tight
• Once the intake bolts are hand tight, Torque them down in this order
• Now put your carb gasket on
• Put the carb on and tighten it down

Now you have to put the distributor in, this is critical if you don't do it right so here's a video on how to do it

• Once your distributor is in, put the hold down clamp on and tighten it
• Now hook all the fuel lines back up to the carb NOTE: If you are going from TBI to carberated, you need and inline fuel pressure regulater for the carb
• Hook up your throttle cables to the carb
• Hook up the coolant hoses
• Run the spark plug wires
• Connect everything else and tighten it
• Bleed the cooling system
• Start it up and give 'er

Putting in a starter

So i was letting my buddy borrow my truck, all of a sudden i get a call saying, "yeah, your truck won't start". So i book it over there and see what the problem was, (this is in a McDonalds parking lot). I crawled under the passanger side with a hammer and began pounding on the starter untill it started. Moral of the story is, i needed a new starter.

 

Tools you need:

• 16, 14, 8 and 9 millimeter sockets w/ wrench

Parts You Need:

• Basically you can take a starter off any small block chevy motor that is PRE-Vortech

Disassembly:

• Disconnect the negative battery cable




To the left of his hand is what you're looking for

• Crawl under the passenger side and take the 2 bolts off holding the starter up
• Then Disconnect the possitive battery cable from the starter and the controll wire
• Set it off to the side

Re-assembly:

• MAKE SURE the terminals are clean on the new starter
• Put the wires back on their corresponding terminals
• Tighten the nuts down
• Put the starter back in position and slide the bolts in
• Tighten them down
• Plug your battery back in
• Be on your merry way =)

Installing subs

NOTE: This is the same procedure for pretty much every other car

Tools:

• Drill w/ 8th inch bit
• Philips screw drivers
• Wire strippers
• Wire cutters

Supplies:

• (For a truck w/ a regular cab) Shallow mount subs
• Sub box
• An amp
• Thick speaker wire (go to best buy or walmart)
• Amp power wire (get the thickest kind)
• A small roll of wire for the amp controll wire
• NOTE: you can get a kit at walmart that has all the wires you need so you don't have to buy them seperately

Running the wires:

• Disconnect your custom stereo deck and pull it out
• Connect the sound cables, Black-Red Gray-White, they just plug in
• Connect the amp controll wire with a butt connecter, (the blue wire hanging off the radio that didn't plug into anything)
• Now, what i would recomend is hiding the wires under the floor mat or carpet if you have it
• Run the wires behind the seat
• Now take the thick power cable, DON'T FORGET to put a fuse on it, (50-80 amps depending on how many watts your amp is)
• If your truck is as rusty as mine, you can run the wires through the rust holes. If not, you'll have to drill a hole in your fire wall on the battery side and run it through there, unless you find a hole there that would work
• Run the power cable into the cab, under the floor and behind the seat
• DON'T connect it to the battery yet

Plugging everything in:

• Get your roll of speaker wire and plug the subs into the amp (+ to + and - to -) also make sure you plug the right sides in
• Plug the sound cables into the amp if you havn't alrerady
• Plug the amp controll wire in
• Attach the ground cable by drilling a hole in the floor next to the amp and taking a self-tapping screw and wrapping the wire around the screw and tightening it up
• Plug the power cable into the amp
• Put your stereo back in place but make sure everything is plugged in
• NOW that everything else is hooked up, plug the power cable into the positive side of the battery

Things to keep in mind:

• Most amps have a power switch so you can controll the power to the subs, if you have a high wattage amp, make sure you have high wattage subs or you will fry the subs and possibly the amp.
• New subs need a break in time before you can blast them, so read the instuction book that comes with
• Make sure you secure your amp and subs to the truck in some way
• But most of all, when you get subs, you will gain alot of respect for dubstep. haha

Putting in a custom stereo deck

Tools you need:

• Philips screwdriver
• Wire snips
• Wire stripper
• Butt connecters
• Utility knife
• Sharpie

Stuff you need:

• Stereo deck
• Wiring harness adapter
• Antenna adapter

Taking out the old radio:

• Take all the screws out of the dashboard
• Take the volume and tuner knobs off the old radio
• Put the truck in neutral and pull the dash off
• Put the truck back in park
• Now you wanna take the support bolt out of the old radio and disconnect the wiring harness, remove the old radio

Prepping it for the new radio:

• Take the new radio and put it over the old radio hole and mark the size with a sharpie
• Take the utility knife and cut on the inside of the line (you might have to make a few passs with the knife until you cut through)
• Take the dashboard with the hole cut in it and loosley put it on
• Then take the sharpie and measure where to cut the hole in the metal on the dashboard
• Grab a cut off wheel or a dremel tool and cut the hole out of there
• Now take your wiring harness adapter and wire up the radio to it, NOTE: the radio plug and the adapter have the same color wires, so just match the wire to the right color and butt connect them

Installation:

• Put the dash back together minus the radio
• Once its all tightened down, plug in the new wiring harness
• Plug in the antenna adapeter
• Slide the radio in
• Try it out :)

P.S. This isn't the most proffesional way to do it, that's just how i did it