Good job man. Any plans for the black buckets ?
yeah. the black buckets are currently just borrowed from the 86 comanche....it has an OEM black bucket interior (took me YEARS to piece together) and I just needed buckets to get this thing back together. I'll be doing an interior swap on a buddy's xj from tan to green in the near future, so I'll be getting his nice tan wing back buckets to put in this truck.
the 86 (a.k.a. 3800) will be getting rebuilt very soon now...and I am debating on whether or not I want to leave it the traditional body style, convert it to just a 97+ front clip, fenders, flares, and mirrors,...or if I want to do a full on 97+ conversion. the only thing stopping me from doing the full on conversion is that then I would have the added cost of needing all aftermarket gauges, as I cannot adapt the 97+ gauge cluster to function w/o the 4.0 ECU....and since I'm not using the 4.0 (the buick 3800 I put in the truck is BUILT and much faster than a 4.0, not to mention the 24 to 29mpg I got with it)....I can't make it all work together.
IF I do a full on 97+ conversion, I will probably keep the black interior and store it until I get a nice clean short bed 4.0 to put it in. I might be convinced to sell it though.