austin ran over gas meters....those things could kill a rockwell
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austin ran over gas meters....those things could kill a rockwell
Those meats look good on there Ed. :gigem: Nice seat mounts.
Thanks for the props guys, I have been bustin my a$$ tryin to get this thing workin, I still have yet to get to the pane conversion, the oba, or the new reciever hitches for tha winch. I have the parts, but no time, I had to get the snorkels on the atvs, and fix the drive belt on the one I burnt up last weekend. My problem is I am tryin to make sure the family can wheel with me, as they are really starting to enjoy it. I see a trip to co. some day in the future with them.
I will be makin a run to austin monday to pick up some axles, so if anybody needs me to haul somethin down, or pick it up, let me know. I will slide back to aggieland to pickup the axle that afternoon.
I did some clearin with the sawzall today, so the meats should be in pretty good shape. A plasma cutter is next on the tool list, and that will give me a good reason to get tha IR air compressor I want. :cool:
If all goes well in the mornin, we will be on the road by noon back to shiloh. Hope every body has a good 4th weekend, and if you have tests next week
suck it up and drive on. :flipoff2:
They cant be any worse than havin to head back to the big badhdaddy. :cheers:
let me know when you want to go to CO, Ide love to go
Ok, I am debating finding a new body for the cheby and am wondering what to do about the body lift when it gets swapped out.
1. Go ahead and take it out and just chop the ever livin, ever lovin, compound, complex shiat outa the fenders (and maybe move the front axle forward 3 or 4 inches to help clear the cab floor)
2. Put it back in and just chop a litte like I have now.
3. Find a 8" or 9" lift to replace what I have now to get it about right.
I am leanin towards choppin the carp outa it, but I hate to have to do that and I am already right at the floorboard now. I really do want to get the cab back on the frame but need some light shed on the situation. I guess I could always cut out the cab floor and weld in some plate to assist with the clearance.
cuss and discuss please :D
No. 1 sounds good plus you would have a better approach angle with the axle forward
Keep your current body. Swaps are a ***** and I can definately see you tubing the whole thing out later so there's no sense in finding and swapping a better body. DEFFINATELY ditch the body lift and replace your body mounts though, you have some severe frame flex cause your body mounts are prety much ****, with good ones the body will help stiffen it up a bit.
I would not lift it any more. Its already fairly tall, so I would recomend taking the body lift out and leaving the suspension lift alone for now. The problem is that if you want to run your 44's on ~5-6" of lift like you have, you will have to remove most of the front fenders, and you will still have firewall clearance issues. I have a friend who runs 44's on 4" of lift and he has no front fenders at all, moved his axle forward 2" and beat all the seams in the firewall flat and still has tire clearance problems.
You should pony up $25 and buy a membership on coloradok5.com. It kicks pirate's ass on chevy tech and the guys arent redneck duechs.
I think you and Rowdy are right. The body is in bad enough shape that I don't mind choppin it some more, but it also is leaning on the left side due to the brace being rusted to crap under the floorboard. I am worried that this will give me more problems in the future. As for the trouble of swappin cabs, I have that one covered. Gonna get my mechanic to do it when he gets a chance and he will install the 'pane and the axles too.Quote:
Originally Posted by afroman006
The truck is sure gonna look funny when I drop the body back down. It already looks low to me as it is. I still have a little of that ol' rednech in me though.... :flipoff2:
you should do what we were telling sharpe to do to his in the wal-mart parking lot.
My memory is a little fuzy, and there were alot of things we told him to do with pigpen. Plus I have about 9000 miles under my belt since then and as I pretty well drank away my last few remaining braincells in 1996, I don't remember much....Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
Unless she is blonde with big....what?
the cj truggy
Do not speak such blasphemy!Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
I think I fawked my shoulder when I fell outa my chair. I completely forgot about that. I guess I could put the yota body up there. ***Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
Ed, I can help with what ever mechanicing ya need after the end of august, cause ill be back in the wako area.
Sounds good, I am gonna order the hydro-steer stuff soon so there will be a few projects left on it I am sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reckless