ACC Carpet install

[JKreiss]

Got this done a few weeks ago, just finally got some time to post the write up. I was scouring the web for a quality carpet and after reading many suggestions for ACC that's who i went with. I'm very happy with the quality but felt the fit could be better. All in all i think it looks great and is definitely better than the vinyl floor.



I used some aerosol spray on bed liner i picked up from Summit for the floor pan to help protect it from future water leaks. Being a Californie truck it had very nice floors.

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Then i put down some sound mat. Thanks Eric for the tip on the Fat Mat rattle trap stuff. Worked out great and seems to be a good product.



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I then spent the next 4 hours taking the carpet in and out lining up the spots to cut and trim. Finally got it where i'm happy with it and got it all put down. I must say that after its had a chance to sit in there a while and a good vacuum job it looks much better.



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When the seat covers get here i'll take some pics of the finished interior. Marathon said about 3-4 weeks for them to get here. I'm excited to get the Inside all buttoned up, lord know the exterior is BEGGING for some attention:-laf

 

[GCroyle]

Joe,



Nice job. Now you'll be telling riders to knock the mud off and no more power washing the floor at the car wash.



At least you did it with new carpet, I pulled the carpet out of my '97 to dry it and fix a door seal leak, what a nasty job, pulled seats major clean up etc.



I can appreciate what you had to do.



2 detail observations, a steel clutch pedal, later trucks got plastic and I see an adult beverage bottle helping make the job tolerable. Is it a Sierra Nevada? Label color makes me think so.

 

[JKreiss]

:-laf:-laf:-laf You are VERY good Gary! Yes that is a Sierra Nevada, It's my payday beer and my favorite. Yeah the job was pretty messy beings that it had a few other leaks i had to get rid of. Still need to have the windshield re-sealed but i'm waiting till it goes in for paint to have that done. I hope to have everything cosmetic wise done by the end of summer. I've been saving for a few years and i've managed to appropriate all of it in the last 2 months:{ I'll be thankful when it's all done though, i've wanted one of these since dad brought home a brand new 89. I can still remember that "god awful racket" as my mom referred to it, the sound of that Cummins was music to my ears. I was only 5 then but I've been hooked ever since

 

[ENafziger]

Lookin good! I noticed the same thing about initial fit on flooring. A few days in 90+ ° heat and things usually smooth out alot!

BTW, I seen in a couple years you're heading to my part of the country

--Eric

 

[GCroyle]

Joe,



Something 'bout a blind squirrel and an acorn come to mind, but Sierra Nevada is a darn good brew and I had the pleasure several years ago to have dinner and sip a few at the brewery, Chico CA, IIRC I hope.



Made the mistake of attending a tasting way back in Cleveland OH put on by the pres. of Great Lakes Brewing Co. After that commercial megabrews lost a lot of appeal and my cost per ounce went up. I really like an honest IPA. and a rich porter with an iced choclate brownie is a nice desert. I didn't make that one up, the pres of Great Lakes served it to us. Got to tip a glass in the direction of Sam Adams brewing also.



Joe, my first ride was in a 1989 with an A/T but it was right at introduction of the truck, it was a training vehicle for techs and we got it for a resturant run one evening, I remember the rumble and how if you just goosed it a bit, the whole front end twisted side to side trying to contain the mighty Cummins.



Gary

 

[JKreiss]

Yeah Eric i'm heading out that way once my enlistment is up. I don't have any family there but my whole family is moving. Mom Dad, brother, sister, wife's brother, and my wife. We haven't decided on exactly where, we just know it won't be west of Nashville. I'm from the mountains out here so i definitely want to be in the Smokies, East Tennessee for sure. Two of my dreams are a night race at Bristol and playing Alabama at home and feeling the 100,000 plus at Neyland. I'm a big Vols fan. We've tried to get out there at least twice a year to look around at houses and different areas, most importantly to see what there is for work. My wife and i are counting down the days that's for sure, it's the only thing that keeps us sane out here in this zoo.





Gary, that would have been a great experience seeing that truck and taking it for a spin. Grandpa used to have an old 6. 9L Ford but there was just something special about that Cummins. And man, all the beer talk, it's making me thirsty. I'm definitely a beer enthusiast however my palette isn't ready for IPA's yet:-laf I like porters a lot and love a good stout. There's a restaurant called Yard House, has like a hundred beers on tap, it's nice to always be trying a lot of good beers. Great, now I won't be able to sleep tonight! I'll be staring at the alarm clock begging for 5am and to head up the hill!:-laf



Enjoy your 4th of July guys!!!

 

[GCroyle]

Joe,



I have had a chance to travel a bit and after the work was done, usually hit some non-chain resturant if possible, usually with our local salesman and I'd ask for a local beer, try something different, it usually worked to some degree or another.



One day I'm in a major city in Missouri, ask my usual local beer question, waitress looks at me a bit more strange that usual, dryly states B U D. Yup, I was in St. Louis, Duh.

 

[RedRamAndy]

I know this is a turn for the 'wort', but as a homebrewer, and being from the general St. Louis area, I have to post. First off, I have to agree. Most are too happy with boring brew. That's why I turned to homebrewing. I really enjoy a beer with flavor. And I agree Gary! My wife (now of 22 years) was shocked to find me gnawing on an old chocolate Easter bunny and sipping an Ayinger Maibock. Beer and chocolate are wonderful together.

Back to the original topic: Good job on the floorboard! But why would you want to deaden the sound of a Cummins?? I pulled my carpet out, powerwashed, and coated the floor and reinstalled. My wife gave me a big Kenwood stereo that I put in the truck the next Christmas, but still choose to listen to the engine and turbo. Sweeeeet!

 

[GCroyle]

Andy,



That was a really yeasty comment, lots of bubbles. And ya got me on the maibock, never even heard of that one.



About the only brews that I don't enjoy involve ANYTHING with fruit in or on it or the unfiltered stuff, just don't cut it for me.



What gets me is if I go to W-World it is STOCKED full of this lite and that lite but ours only has a few slightly better real beers let alone a selection. Finding an IPA is a special trip to the next bigger city. But I guess they have it cause that is what sells here.



Back to the Great Lakes Brewery, Great Lakes Brewing Company: Beers we have a neice from OH (hi Jacky) that when she visits she brings as much of the GLB as the coolers hold, ale, IPA, Dortmunder and Edmund Fitzgerald porter. GLB has named almost all of their brews after local (Cleveland, and area) things or people like Elliot Ness lager, they had one called Holy Moses, not who you're thinking, remember the Cleveland Connection? It is for Moses Cleaveland (SP?) founder of the mistake on the lake as it has sometimes been called and the label on the Edmund Fitz shows the mighty and long ago sunk freighter plowing though a strong Lake Superior storm on her way to her and her crews fate. Burning River Pale Ale, remember the Cuyahoga River that caught fire long ago? The Commodore Perry IPA, famous Great Lakes battle hero. And I earned the right to use the mistake reference, grew up just west of the mighty Cleveland and still speak kindly of its offerings. BTW, the pres of GLB started us off with their Dortmunder Gold and BBQ chips, oh yeah! So Mr. GLB Pres. do you think that evening tasting with a small group of locals left an impression from some more than 15 years ago?



Joe, now about the IPA, it's like learning how to wear jeans or boots, you buy it and get started.



Don't get that nice carpet all trashed. This is way more fun than fixing a KDP.