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The Down-N-Dirty trucks are awesome! Id get in some trouble with one of those ;) :lol:

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http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...hBKlC3gcfQ.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...t-BBK9DQ3e.jpg

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I'm not (as much I use to be) a 4 wheel drive guy but its something about those dually crew 4X4's that makes me think there is one for me in the future .....

Neat trucks ghetto ......

Ratty 46

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Woah hold the phone!

I never said I didn’t like air ride suspension, I love air ride, I would take a bagged truck over a sprung truck every day.

This is my old ride, I put down damn near 500,000 miles in it in the time I owned it.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../killerkw3.jpg

I had dump valves on each of the trailer axles and I could use them to walk the trailer sideways allowing me to back into holes that most people could never dream of.

The thing to note in this picture are the tool boxes under the trailer, I had 8 of them on there when I started out, they cost 650.00 each. At the front of the trailer I had 6” of ground clearance. The trailer was a huge pain being set up that way because I always had to be crazy careful because I was always hitting the tool boxes on the ground. The reason there are only 4 of the boxes on it in this pic because one night running down the road in western Missouri I went over a set of train tracks doing 65 mph and ripped them off tossing about 6 grand worth of boxes, tarps, tools and rigging all over the place.

Eventually I would wind up removing all the boxes from the truck and placing a new set between the spread axles to protect them. This was because everywhere I went I was always having problems with setting the boxes down and scraping and busting the mounts. I cringe to even think about how much money I spent patching that thing up.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...lTA/BigBad.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...TA/Bigbad3.jpg

I also spent about 6 months driving an 8 axle haul truck that had 5 inches of ground clearance, when fully loaded, grossed out there were times I would weigh 136,000 lbs and it was a huge pain all the time setting it down on driveways and humps in the road as well as train tracks.

This ties into why I said I don’t like taking a crew cab dually and slamming it, because it makes the truck less functional as a hauler, when you have a long wheel base low to the ground you have to be very careful not to scrape, and even with air ride and the ability jack the truck up you are still going to have to be really careful not to scrape and jack your truck up.

Also when running the semi wheels turned down to 22” so you can run a super lo pro tire, they don’t have a good weight rating, for instance a tire like the Kumho Ecsta 285/30 r22 it only has a 1,819 lb load rating, times 4 tires that’s only 7276 lbs, where as the Michelin XDS2 that I am going to run on my dually is a 245/70 R19.5 with a 4940 lb load rating, that means times 4 tires you are looking at 19,760 lbs capacity.

That coupled with an air ride suspension that will handle the weight that means I could get 12,484 lbs more on the back end of my truck.

So when I say that slamming a dually is destroying the functionality of it as a hauler, this is what I am referring to. And to be honest I have seen a couple of em that I really liked the look of. Like Dragnasty’s truck,

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../dragnasty.jpg

I love the look of it, man I think it looks mean. I wouldn’t mind having it, but I also wouldn’t want to drive it cross country for the reasons I outlined above.

And I have a semi lowered dually.
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...dudentruck.jpg

I have also owned a couple of half tons that were lowered, I had a 95 1500 x cab short bed, and a 71 c/10 that were both lowered I really enjoyed em, My grandpa has the 95 now, when he passes on I am going to get it back, then I will restore and bag it.

Another one I really like is your truck.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1154883295

I used to have a 78 that is identical but a 4x4, 4x4s4allie has it now.

And for my girlfriend I am looking at getting her a 2WD K5 and lowering it with air ride.

I hope that this clarify’s the point I was getting at, and it might be worth your while to check out the build on my 85, im putting air ride on it and stuffing a Cummins in it, as well I am building a 48’ tilt deck tripple axle goose neck to pull behind it that will have air ride as well.

Also my 94 3500hd wrecker is eventually going to get an air ride suspension.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...A/firsttow.jpg

I have to get my other wrecker built first.

Just one thing though, please dont say I dont know what I am talking about because I have about 700,000 miles worth of towing experince behind me. I have done it in 47 states, 3 canadian provences and mexico, in about every weather condition imagineable.

I think it is safe to say I am speaking from experince.

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http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...TA/dually1.jpg

I almost bought this one last year, kind of sad I didnt. It was a pretty cool truck, but it came out of michigan, it has some serious rust on the underside.

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Holy Cow!!!
that is becoming the perfect truck :metal:

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so you are going to put 15,000 pounds in the bed of your truck? :confused::lol:

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Oh, I will need the capacity, the truck is getting one of these stuffed under it.


This unit puts a ton of stress on the back tires, it has a 4,000 lb lift rating, but it is putting that weight 10 feet behind the rear axle so that is one heck of a lever.

As well once my 48' tilt deck is finished I will be picking up a contract towing motorhomes and medium duty vehicles, so it will be a constant that I am sticking 10K+ loads on that trailer, expecially if I am picking one up that has been in an accident and can not be towed on its wheels.

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That was a quick hook ....... the non payers better watch out!!

Ratty 46

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Makes you realize how full of it Operation repo is doesnt it. :metal:

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Can the average public buy those, or do you have to have a repo/wrecker service?

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Anyone can buy em, they cost about 6800.00

They make a version that is not an auto hooker for about 5 grand.

The catch 22 with these is that you have to reinforce your frame.

On my 85 I am plating it with a piece of 3/16" cut to contour with the frame starting from behind the front cab mount.

I really like the setup though because I can still use my truck as a hauler, and because it will have the wheel lift it will mean that I dont have to push vehicles that I am picking up, and since my trailer is a 48 footer, instead of having to back it in some place really occuard taking a whole bunch of time, I can unhook from it, grab the vehicle I need to load, pull it out, and then load it in an more conveniant spot.

I am toying with the idea of starting a salvage yard here, if I do this truck is gonna be great for going and picking up any vehicles that I buy, expecially if they are non runners.

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http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...tBLBwNVZcT.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...jBLB54nt_3.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...bs/20rtw86.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...bs/10gfjpd.jpg

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The blue truck looks familiar....;)

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Ok, you have proven that you do have knowledge of air suspension. I was incorrect.

With that said, I go back to my point. Posting pictures of trucks stating "I hate this" is considered posting in a negative manner and is not acceptable.

With that said, please keep all posts on topic here. The topic is "How about some pics of 73-91 crew cabs" .

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Here is one I found up by dallas for sale, it is a 4x4, has a small block 400/th400 in it, I am seriously thinking about buying it.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...A/bluegmc1.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...A/bluegmc2.jpg

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Looks like a decent truck, how much are they asking?

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2500

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a few more pics of my 1990 V3500

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haha.. maybe one day. Gotta figure out how big I can go while keeping it a comfortable daily highway driven truck. The way it is now with 6" of lift and 35" tires, it doesn't handle much different then before I lifted it. Its a work truck, not an off roader, but even so, I wouldn't mind doing a coil spring conversion up front just to soften the ride. Also, gotta trade my pitman spacer block for a left to right pitman? arm setup to get rid of some bump steer. Does anyone know if thats a stock option, and if so, what the correct name for that "pitman arm" part is? As for the front coils, someone suggested modifing a Dodge 2500 long arm kit, and I haven't found anything easier short of building it from scratch..

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that doesn't sound to bad...

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if I buy it im going to offer 1500 no motor or tranny. I dont need the headaches of a 400 small block.

I think it is a perfect cantidate for a NV4500 and a Cummins through! :metal:

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one i found in the nieghborhood as i was driving by

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Whoda thunk it

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Here's one locally that may be up for sale in the near future. I believe it's a 454/TH400. If it does go up for sale, what would be a reasonable offer for me to make on it?

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...8091332-00.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...8091332-01.jpg

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Wow, I wouldnt really want to give a lot for that truck, it looks like a rust bomb.

I paid 1,000 for my 85 with no rust.

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http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...S2300030-1.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...S2300036-1.jpg

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Couldnt resist Fixer upper for sale cheap... http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...ndOldTruck.jpg

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I came up on this Girls Truck! Tried to take some pics but she was driving it like she stole it! lol
had a few cool custom touches like the 15" lift and 44inch swampers, skull fender emblem, pink rearend cover, had a cowl hood and billet grill with pink country girl across the windshield. We live in Kansas City so dont see trucks like these ever.

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That truck is outta sight. I'd kill to have a truck like that, but then my mom wouldn't be able to get in it or drive it.

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best looking shortbed ive ever seenhttp://i48.tinypic.com/2lc4hs3.jpghttp://i48.tinypic.com/11b1ycp.jpghttp://i45.tinypic.com/16m3703.jpghttp://i45.tinypic.com/11v32j5.jpg

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^^ I don't know if it's the best ever, but it is damn nice

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YOU BASTARD!

You shouldnt show things like that to me, now I want to build one! :waah:

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Isn't that the one for sale on cl in Los Angels?

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Please explain to me how you can walk the trailer sideways by just dumping the air out of the bags please. And also since when have American trucks been allowed into Mexico? Last I knew American trucks were NOT allowed into Mexico period. And why were you only 136,000 with an 8 axle combination? And why were you setting a heavy haul trailer down in a driveway? I would never want to see a heavy haul trailer set down in my driveway. And going over railroad tracks with enough grade to rip your toolboxes off seems kinda unsafe at 65 mph?!? Lucky you own the truck huh? I also have hundreds of thousands of miles trucking. But the majority of my miles is well over 200,000 lbs. And with ground clearances at times less than 5 inches I have yet to get hung up on ANYTHING. Thats the great thing about airbags and hydraulics I guess. So saying that a truck with low ground clearance is worthless is kinda like saying 136,000 is grossed out with an 8 axle. Not even kinda dude.

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It is actually really simple, you have a dump valve on your front and rear axle on a 10'6" spread, you cock your tractor sideways to the trailer at between a 30 and 60 degree angle, then you dump your back axle, pull forward slightly sliding the axle about 3 inches, then you dump the front axle and air up the rear, back up until it walks 3 inches in the same direction, repeat the process as nessacary.

Doing so allowed me to park in the back row at the flying hook in Tacoma when it was packed with a 48' step deck and a W900L with a 265" wheel base.

Well my trips to mexico were recreational, My truck stayed in Anthony Tx at the pilot, I went to Juarez and tijuana, but Us trucks are allowed in, I dont know who was filling your head full of that load of bs, but there are a ton of goods made in mexico, how do you think they get here? Now it is the other way around, mexican trucks are not allowed in the US. Hell half of everything chrysler is building these days comes out of mexico.

I was actually permitted for 140,000. 4 Axle pete, trail king tripple stretch hyd detach DD rgn, and a single axle stinger.

What happens when your drive way is the one that the load is coming to? Or a loading dock that you are trying to back into.

It was at night on a road posted 65 mph. I was doing the limit, the road was level until it got to the tracks and banked off on the other side. but you were standing there so you know better than I do right?

As well outside of that incadent I never so much as had a fender bender, nor have I EVER had a freight claim.

Actually with the 8 axle if the company I was working for was willing to pay the money should have been able to load up to 152,000 lbs, or somwheres in the neighborhood, I havent driven the truck for a few years. 136,000 lbs was the heaviest I ever got it with a grove crane on the back. It was the heaviest thing we had to haul.

I know the types of trailers you are talking about because I drove one, But you know what it had its limitations too, and a lowered pickup yanking a gooseneck is going to have nowere near the capability of a hydraulic detach rgn.

As well with those types of loads you have the luxury of pilots to block traffic for you, and often times police escorts, and alol damn day to get them where they are going, and plenty of time to catch your z's with curfew.

I have set a trailer down many times, I am careful and I havetn wrecked em, a great example of setting down on a drive way was when I was hauling a 55 ton crane into a walmart so as that they could set air conditioners on the roof, the driveway was so steep that even with the neck lifted all the way I still touched the trailer down just before the trailer axles.

But you know what because I have common sense and I do know a thing or two about driving, instead of flooring it and trying to drag it over, I backed up a ways, got out, put down some lumber and drove up on it giving me the clearence to make the driveway.

I also used to run a Lufkin double drop mechanical detach tandem axle spring ride, I had plenty of times I couldnt get that old piece of crap in a driveway, often times I was throwing blocks under tires to get it in places.

Getting to the fact of the matter, I never said that hydraulics or pneumatics wernt amazing, I never said that they did not make a vehicle more capable, because I sure as hell know that they do. What I said was that I would find driving a slammed crew cab dually cross country, or as a daily driver for that matter rather unpractical, and that it is not something I want to do.

As well if you read a little closer you would find that I am building an 85 with air ride that will be slightly lowered that is if I dont convert it to a 4x4.

Now all that being said, could everyone get over being buthurt at the fact that I said I didnt like the color 1 truck was painted, the way it was lowered and that I wouldnt want to have to drag a trailer cross country with it.

I am speaking purely what works for my puropses, I really dont care if some one else is doing it, if they are more power to them. I know that everyone here has seen something done with a truck that is absolutely atrocious and had something to say about it.

I mean if I took a short bed, slammed it on hydraulics and stuffed 14" gold wire wheels on it, and then painted it yellow and pink with a mighty morphin power rangers mural on each side. Then if I came over here a postin pics talking about how cool it was, I garuntee some of you all would have something to say about it, and it wouldnt be nice.

That being said, I didnt like it when a guy took a truck that was black (which is my favorite color) painted it purple with silver flames, Is that really such a crime?

Or is it because I am not into rolling in a truck that is laid out, does that make me less of a person here with out the right to an oppinion?

This whole thing has just entered a level of stupidity that makes me not want to come on here at times. And that is a real shame because I love these trucks, the 80's crew cab dually is my favorite truck of all time, it is that one truck that I just love, it is the pinacle of trucks for me.

What I was really hoping when I opened my big damn mouth with my post talking about what I did and didnt like there was that I would meet some like minded folks that I could talk trucks with and become friends with. Was I really in the wrong place?

We all have our own oppinions, there are people here who emphasize on puttin em back bone stock, who cringe at the thought of cutting a dash for a radio, there are guys on here who cut em up into truggies and wheel the snot out of em, and those who ride em low, those who ride em high, those who use em for play, and those who still work em hard.

Just a thought but why dont we celebrate our differences of oppinion a little bit instead of chastizing anyone who has one. Because call my crazy if everyone drove a truck that was done exactly the same way as the next guys, life would be pretty damn boring.

I am going to step off of this rant now and put it to bed, I really dont see a point in continueing it further, so could we please just stick to posting pics of trucks?

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I agree :agree:with N2TRUX about staying on topic, you girls are ruining this thread.:haha:
Now lets see some more bad ass crew cabs.:lol:

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Well summed up MrBeast, and as stated before, lets see some crews!

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yeah its for sale in la. i like the lift height and tires

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Don't feel to hated, I kind of agree. While I don't hate the slammed trucks, I do think that makes the truck useless so I would never own one. But to each their own. Now I would love to have a 4x4 like the last one. Your are right, that just looks good.