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Review Interior, Pedal, and Chassis Modifications

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Brian Keselowski’s Vintage Dodge Ram NASCAR Truck Resurrection! Reunited After 18 Years

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The interior features of the truck are discussed, focusing on the changes made to the dashboard, which now includes electric gauges to prevent fluid lines from running inside the cabin—a past practice that NASCAR later prohibited. The gas pedal was custom-made, and the brake/clutch pedals are original. Master cylinders were replaced due to age. The custom fabrication of the B-post, roof, and A-post using original truck parts and careful reshaping is highlighted.

Goal: Examine interior updates, pedal details, and chassis modifications for safety and performance.

Tools and materials

  • Electric gauges — Monitoring engine parameters
  • Master cylinders — Brake system components

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this thing from the inside? Actually, not that much. It's original dashboard. Uh none of the gauges really were in it. Um and the wiring was such a rat's nest. It just was best just to take it all out. There really wasn't anything there that was worthwhile. And I the big thing for me is I wanted to make it look like older stuff, but it wasn't going to be. So, we put electric gauges in it, which actually we just bought them new and they still look like the old gauges that we had in this truck. But one of the reasons I wanted to do that is I didn't want any of the fluids to run inside the truck cuz everything used to be mechanical and you would run fuel pressure lines inside. You'd run oil pressure lines inside. It's been quite a while now, probably 15 years or so. NASCAR made all that stuff illegal. like you they didn't want any of fluids inside of it and actually actually one of the things I definitely agreed with. So we just put electric gauges in it but we wanted them to be the big style ones and look kind of original. >> So that's like I said only about two or three of the gauges came with it anyway and they were nothing good. So we had to redo all that. And then obviously I put my own seat and and legboards and stuff in it. But everything we tried to buy we're trying to buy from used parts places. I very rarely buy anything new. Did you make that pedal, the gas pedal? >> Yeah. Yeah, we we had to recreate the gas pedal. I did buy it from SRI cuz it didn't come with a gas pedal in it. I don't know what the guy did. He took it out, but um so I had to recreate that and I actually still need to work on that some more. It's not totally comfortable. Those are the original brake and clutch pedals, though. Um we did have to replace all the master cylinders because 25 years of them sitting around with brake fluid was not good for them. First time we hit the brake pedal, they literally all fell apart. All the all the internals all come apart. And we replaced all the brake lines, too, because originally we didn't have like the high dollar stainless steel lines. We just had steel lines that we made. And we always did all of our own stuff. >> So, we flared and everything, you know, put all the stuff together. >> When we started tearing into this thing and I had it 90% torn apart, we're just like, we better just replace those two cuz they might be rusty on the outside. I have no idea what they look like on the inside. >> What is your…

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