Square Body Crew Cab Gets Front Runner System!

that's right a guy is finally back to work on my ls swapped square body crew cab tonight i'm going to be installing this beautiful chrome and billet front runner kit from vintage air i mean it's got everything let's get started [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm sure a lot of you are probably wondering well what happened with this truck anyway why'd you stop working on it and it should have been done by now yep basically long time ago i had mentioned for you guys that have been around for a while i was just feeling really rushed with the project we were always last minute thrashing on it trying to get it ready for power tour or something else and i just felt like i wasn't doing the build justice because i always do everything on a budget or hack this or hack that or do it as fast as possible and cheap as possible and the intentions with this truck is to haul my family around my wife and kids and take it to shows and pull cars to shows and do things like that so i really do want it to be done correctly be safe and also have some nice parts in it so i wanted to just pump the brakes pan it up there for a little bit until i felt like i had the time to invest to do it correctly i think i'm finally ready to start chewing on this thing a little bit more you know and again that leads me to the vintage air front runner kit now i could have went to the junkyard and cobbled this together and got that used and did this and made that work and whatever else but i don't want to cut a bunch of corners so i ran into the front runner kit from vintage air as you guys know we've got the vintage air in the cab already and this kit is not only absolutely gorgeous made in the usa but i know it's going to perform very very well let me show you this thing real quick so this is a complete kit here it comes with everything you see on this table and you can get them with or without the power steering by the way this comes neatly packed in one big box but of course me i had to rip and tear that apart and look everything over and i went with the billet and chrome and you could see how nice these pieces are they're a little dirty from laying around for a while but i think this is going to look really nice even comes with the new super damper all the bolts hardware even got a charging wheeler cable kit the belt i mean everything so this is really going to simplify things for me just bolt her up follow the instructions and it's going to really put that into overdrive from that point we could start putting the intake and things like that on and it's really going to start looking like a complete engine i wanted to back up here and show you how i got this pulley off maybe save you a little money and some frustration there they make special pullers for these for ls i guess i don't i don't know much about these at all but they're grab these jaws right here and then they got a long extension that goes into the crank there so you can pull that off well all i did was use the bolt round that in a little bit use just a basic small three jaw pulley pinned up against that you can actually see the mark pulled it out as far as i could loosened this up a little bit pulled it out a little more then i just ran a basic socket extension which that three-jaw pulley sits perfectly in here and it pulled it the rest of the way off like that so that seemed to work just fine now i am going to use just this universal polar installer to put the new one on because this is the one that they call for it's gonna cup that front better and drive that flush and then we'll put our crank bolt back in these are one time use by the way fillers this is a new one here so we'll be using that torque elated on it and whatnot so that's where we're going to start let's get this super damper put on there's a little bit of prep work we got to do before we start slamming parts together here both on the torque twister and the new damper here this damper has a keyway in it but we don't have a keyway set up over here on the ls so i'm going to run some high temperature silicone through here and get that basically filled up so when we do put this on we don't have oil working its way through this and then out the front bolt there so i'll do that in a minute we'll let that tack up the other thing that i'm doing here is taking some 1500 grit sandpaper and i don't know i'm just using some spray away or whatever you want to use for a cleaner i'm just cleaning up this crank a little bit this engine is a fresh rebuild but as you guys know it's been laying around for a long long time and this thing is actually pretty dirty and then lastly before i press that on i'm going to put some anti-seize on here as well that way if a guy needs to can we at least you know get this back off that would be that would be nice once this dries up a little bit i'll run that sandpaper through there as well and just clean it up just a little bit and speaking about running some sandpaper through there if you've got an aftermarket crank you might want to put a dial indicator on it and they have a list of tolerances that come with that you might have to use a small break home and hone this out just a tickle so it slides on but with the stock crank i'm guessing like any other it should slide right on there's a separate set of instructions here that show you how to put together the damper some come in three pieces some come in two i guess depending on your vehicle and applications and whatnot fun fact these are nhra ihra and nascar accepted so you know this is like bolting on another what 8 million horsepower accurate i'm using the old bolt right now to slowly draw this damper on just a little ways and then as soon as my threads reach with my installer there i'll put that one on because i just feel a lot safer not risking stripping the threads out and the torque twister there how that one works is it threads in and bottoms out and then you have a nut that draws it in from the outside here let's see if that's far enough maybe i don't know find out i guess per the constructions here some of this assembly is just easier on a bench or table before you get it on the unit here starting with these two pipe plugs go down here then i got this block off kit with the o-rings and bolt that are going to go in right over there i need some teflon tape yeah click click oh yeah that's she's dialed sounds like a christmas ornament box on the table here i kind of like it click oh yeah that one's good too oh ringage okay i think that's over torqued perfect next is the power steering pump pulley here and if you don't have an installer tool a lot of these newer style pumps and aftermarket pumps it's actually threaded on the inside so i just took a 3 8 bolt lubed up a couple washers threw them down and just used the bolt to walk this down something to pay attention to is this pulley does have a front and rear so make sure you get that you know right and then we just bring her over here bolt her up i'll be tipped i just realized all of this nice hardware here this 12-point hardware is actually arp stuff good quality this poor engine used to be so nice looking got to clean all this up of course with the cheek poker get in there and just whirl on it also take a flap disc i test fitted it see where it's just barely touching the timing cover there and they mentioned that in the instructions you might just have to zip you know just take her easy and just take off just a scooch there throw the gaskets in it comes with studs three on this side two on this side and we'll get it mounted up [Music] [Music] i got this cleaned up pretty decent but the threads are in pretty rough shape i'm gonna run a thread repair kit on these and clean these up a little bit before i run those studs in there a little juice you know never hurt nothing threads taste studs are in of course i had that s that was really bothering me down there where it was chipping off i think we're ready to go ahead and slide this unit on just kind of get the gaskets out and get those on quick here we go yep nice and if you're wondering this one over here doesn't have a stud because the bolt goes in that way these need to protrude 5.08 inches according to the constructions i just kind of parked them on in there you know what i mean find these nuts quick get that bolt in it's on starting to look like an engine actually somehow lost a nut already so i'm gonna have to order another one i want them to match i don't have a lot of this fancy 12 point stuff laying around but i left it on this one here should be able to get in there when we're finished and knock that on quick crank pulleys next by the way i haven't put the thermostat in yet which they recommend doing you know off the rig because i'm going to pick up a chrome water neck instead of the cast one [Music] charger rollers next here that's nice detail on the front there next is the ac compressor here [Music] wow i'm not quite sure where this wire needs to be i'm going to send it out the back though easy fix if i got to move it i guess there's a chrome cover for this get on [Music] [Music] where did the go you know of course the water roller pulley here [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is coming along great and looking really good normally shiny stuff scares the guy but this is blending in with the pipelators and then i think i got a shiny valley cover cupboard tray thing up there that does stuff before we put the belt on and the cover over here i got to put a fitting it's more of a line on for the power steering over here i should have done it when this was off dang it but nonetheless it's got to be done it actually goes in here with like a banjo bolt sneaks around back comes around and then comes down to here and then this is where i'm going to have to make a connection to come back up here and then this will swing around like that of course i'm going to be replacing this and probably have a line made for the high pressure side on that take care of that i actually had a really difficult time finding this special fitting that goes into these pumps for independence it took a lot of calling around and interweblazing and researching before i finally found something this one is really nice because it goes around the back here really cleans stuff up there we go this is actually the same pump i want to run on independence too when i change it out i'm having so many issues with the other one and then i'll have the reservoir right on the pump here instead of dealing with that mickey mouse one up by the radiator that's always leaking on us and causing issues see if i get this snake belt figured out here let's start here [Music] bring her up around the tensioner i can't yep there we go and then let's see that must drop down there this swings under there that comes over here wow just stay put okay [Music] all right now we just need to give her some ranch probably like two onions yep [Music] boy i don't want that puppy soothing there we go last little step here is this chrome cover for the tensioner upper maybe down i don't know what you got going on well there we have it vintage air front runner kit i know it looks like a lot going on but the installation was actually really straightforward i know this is a shorter video but don't worry there's a lot more crew cab coming you know what they say how do you eat an elephant yeah hire a good chef for whatever we're just gonna keep taking bites out of this thing coming up next valley cover valve covers intake maybe even injectors we'll see how crazy it gets thanks guys for watching appreciate it very much we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Vice Grip Garage

Views: 461,766

Keywords: motortrend, roadkill, vice grip garage, vise grip garage, vgg, vintage air, front runner, accesssory system, crew cab, 3+3, chevy, chevrolet, square body

Id: VECY894mWOQ

Length: 17min 44sec (1064 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 12 2022