Since Project 300 sat for almost 2-3 years without being driven it needs some help.
One thing great about pickups is that when you are working on them you can just toss all the parts in the bed. With cars you fill up the trunk and then if the paint isn't spectacular start piling the parts on the roof or any flat surface you can find. Sooner or later that space fills up then what? Then you must clear off shelf space or start putting pieces in boxes. The next step is you lose the boxes, the parts on the shelf disappear, and you can't remember where you put that headlight switch.
Here is what I currently have in my truck bed.
Different size coil springs to fit the larger 285/75R16 BFGoodrich All-Terrain tires
A spare 235/85R16 tire that I removed from underneath the truck. It has an indention from where it was rubbing against the exhaust pipe.
The front anti-swaybar. It was rubbing on the new and stock tires. Plus it gets in the way of wheel travel. We'll need wheel travel for desert racing.
Two cheap spindly jack stands that I do not trust.
I like cutting the side out of old oil and antifreeze gallon jugs. They make excellent drip pans and they hold little parts great. Whenever you have a junk container holding miscellaneous parts make sure it is wider than it is deep. You want to spread everything out. Piles are bad.
A diesel can with those new crappy spouts.
A square breaker bar with a ground down side. It is 4 feet by 1 inch. Second best tool I own.
"Hammer of Thor" This is the best tool I own. If I don't fix what I'm working on it feels good to smash it with the big hammer. I would rather hit something once really hard than hit it a bunch of times with less force. I think you have less of a chance nicking stuff that way. I've had this hammer since I was in 6th grade. One day my friend Jay and I were throwing the sledge hammer around in my backyard...again. It was a lot of fun but eventually something bad was going to happen. It did. But with good comes bad just like Al Pacino said in Scarface. Anyways the handle snapped in the perfect place, I added some tape and that's how I got the hammer.
Ammo box I got from John Cappa editor of JP magazine.
The oil pan is Mike McGlothlins' and I have been meaning to empty it. The oil filter is from my Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Check out the brake calipers. Yikes probably shouldn't have been driving on them. Notice the rust on the piston. They were stubborn coming out. I hooked up my Craftsmen hand held air compressor and blew them out. It made a loud bang. Make sure to put a rag and a block of wood over the caliper when doing this.
Also notice the fluid which had leaked past the piston seal. The dust seal was toast. Plus the backside of the driver side rotor had worn about a 1/4 inch because of the stuck piston. The caliper was filled with sludge.