I had no idea when I converted my front seats from a bench seat to bucket seats in my 1997 F-350 that there was an acutual conversion plate that was needed. No wonder the seats I pulled out of the junk

It seems like these repairs have been happening quite frequently as of late. 🤔 The ol’ 1997 F350 has been on and off the road for 23 years! Things wear out and things break, especially since this truck

The last tool has finally arrived to finish up my recent ball joint and U-joint project on my truck’s front axle Talk about a hunk of metal... DANG!! This tool is used to seat the outer axle seal. But....

I really need my own shop, or at least clean off my work bench I have in the garage. That might help. Instead I spent the other evening tearing apart my driver side wheel hub assembly in the driveway.

Wow, it seems like I have been working on this for years!! Maybe I have been thinking about it for years?!?! Either way, this project took some serious blood sweat and... Men don’t cry. It’s done!! It’s

After digging through about 10,000,000 photos I finally found it. A picture of the Ol’ Beast the first day I took ownership. I thought I had lost it and I was honestly a little worried. One thing I will

Typically this job would be straight forward. A Plug-N-Play and away you go. Of course that never seems to be the case with Th Ol’ Beast and I. This truck once worked the Right-of-Ways of Pacific Gas &

The Ol’ Beast was in desperate need of new headlights. The lenses are super yellow, making it very hard to see at night. I could maybe see 20 feet in front of me with my low beams on. I could have my brights

Being that this is my first time performing an axle swap, I think it went pretty smooth. Well I still have all my fingers and toes and nothing seized up or blew up during the first test drive around the