IH 54 R-100 4X4

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Yeah, looks like y'all are going to get hit again. I have a brother, and highschool friend in the panhandle area. Both were lucky this last time. Helene just missed both of them. I have lived in South Louisiana all of my life, I know how it is. Good luck.
 

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That looks rite. Here are a few pics I just took for you, on my 79 Corvette. It has its numbers matching 4 bolt main, L-82, 350. I have seen the AC compressor, and alternator on opposite sides, like you have yours set up. What's really important, is that the pulley's line up correctly. You should have a straight line on the belt, on each pulley, but I'm sure you already know that.
 

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Had a Mickey thrown into the soup with belt tracking on this motor !!

All the pulleys had to be moved outboard 1/4" due to Milodon's cam gear drive that I installed a number of years ago ...
Had to modify the compressor mount for this gear drive unit ..

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Took off a 1/4" from the backside and made a 1/4" spacer to weld to the front of compressor mount ..
Thinking it should work ok ... Will know for sure when the double groove pulleys get installed ..
 

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Small problem with the power steering pulley ..

The one that was sent to me was a bolt-on ... What I needed was a press-on ..
Called the company and told them the pulley was the wrong one, they said they don't have the press-on ...

Not a biggie .. Found one on eBay ..

Hoping the compressor won't have problems with room in the engine bay ??

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Found this photo showing a good view of what room is there ..

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Think it will be okay ..
 
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I really like all of the custom touches you have done, on your truck. I have done a bunch of the same kind of custom designs on my 97, c1500 Chevy. I bought my truck, used in 2002, with 80,000 miles. It now has almost 270,000 miles on it. I have done so much to the truck, that I can't remember them all. I sat down once and tried to write them all down, and quickly filled up a full page of mods. Most of the mods, I have done a very subtle. Like I swapped out the instrument cluster, with 1 from a GMC Denali. So I now have a 120 MPH speedometer, and not the 100 MPH, that the truck came with. I spent a lot of time, buffing, and polishing under the hood, on the rims, and on the aluminum tailgate banner. When the seat started getting bad, I got lucky, and found a set of bucket seats, out of a 95 Tahoe.the7 are a perfect fit, and the fabric even matches the OE fabric that was in the OE 60/40 seat. The 2 mods that do stand out, however , is the custom shifter, I built, and installed. So I now have a floor shifter, that looks like the horseshoe shifter in a 1970 Chevelle SS, or a Camaro. I built everything except the u shaped handle, itself, on the front half of the console. The back half of the console, I got out of a 2004 Tahoe, in the junk yard. I even built the plate with the notches that lock the shifter in gear, park, or natural. Then I had the bright idea, to make it a slap shifter. So you can shift all the way down to 1st, and the slap the shifter up to 2ed, and it locks in place, until you pull the bar, to shift the gears. The other big obvious thing I built, is the bowtie, under the hood. I first made a smaller one, the thought, it was to small, so I made a bigger 1. Then got the bright idea, to put the smaller 1 over the bigger 1, and put some LED lights between the 2. I made them switch on and off, with the OE hood light switch.
 

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That was a rough one !!

My area dodged the bullet with it making landfall about 100 miles south ..
Still had big time wind & rain, lot of trees and power lines are down ..
But for the most part we were lucky ..
 

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