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Sounds like you're getting close man! Keep up the good work!

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Well the shocks are on but i let out too much pressure so tomarrow we will have to fill them up again.

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Well its on its own weight. Flexed to 40ins to the bottom of the back tire, on 31s if it matters. But we ordered the heims for the front I guess.

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Well today I believe we are going to get a set of 38s on 8lugs. I will drill them out and start getting ready to swap the dana 70s in. And going to have to think about how we are going to lik the front. I want to do a double triangle 4-link. But it might not be possible, so I may have to do a 3link with panhard. At full bump it will be where the front sits front maybe a inch higher.


And for the black tow rig we are going to get a 454 today.


Edit: I don't know if I said this but we are getting a 02 vortec motor for it, we just have to pull it out before the person sends the truck to the junkyard.

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Cool! Nice progress! It's coming along nicely!

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Well we picked up the 38s not the best but will work for now. The Rims are 16.5x12s so I'm going to jack up the black truck and swap them for the ones that are on my boggers so they don't wear uneven.

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We got the 38s on the rear d70, tomorrow we will put the 38s on the front d70. We ordered the heims and coilovers and springs for the front. They will be the 2.5 fox 16in travel res coilovers. We ordered the coils based on a full size with a 454, so we I believe we will be swapping in the 454 we picked up.

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post up some pics of your axles and the tires.


10 lug sounds interesting!

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The d70s aren't 10 lug, but they have the 5/8 lug bolts. And ythe ones from earlier, But I will get some pics.

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ohhh i thought it was 10 lug.

5/8 lug bolts? how are you going to drill out the rims? drill press or hand drill?

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The rims we got with the 38s fit it fine. We went to hand drill if but the bit went thru. So we put them on. THe stock rims and the spare for the black truck didn't fit but the these did, maybe someone driled them before us?

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so your going to run the 38's on the truggy and leave the boggers on your black truck?

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Yup never planned to run the boggers on this, but I was going to swap the rims.

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Well the seat is going to finally be all the way in, and this weekend we plan to sandbalst and paint. The color will be black, same as the black truck.

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any pics of the tires?

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I thought I posted the pic but here it is, they aren't tight because we were just making sure they fit. And we stll need to the brakes.

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i just got some bfg all terrain 35s
those look a ton bigger does that 3 inches make a big difference

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I think the rims make the difference, I had them next to my boggers and they seemed huge. Still on my way up in size, I want to go to 44in boggers.

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what size rims

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16.5x12s, the tires are 15.50. My boggers rims are 16.5x9.75, and the tire 16 wide. And the 38s seem to sit wider by a lot.

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dang so 38s will fit fine on a 10 in wide wheel right

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Yea, I see no problem with it, just the looks you aquire. to narrow of a wheel will give a sucked in, and in cases a balloon looking wheel. And to wide a balloon. But a 38x15.50 should wear pretty good on a 10in wide wheel.

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i have 38x15.5 on a 10" rim and i have to agree with onlyifihadachevy
its got a good contact patch with this combo.

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Well we are going to sandblast it today. We have 200pds of 20 grit. So we should be able to get the backhalf and some of the frame. We got the winch line lead extended, By about 5 in, 2 inches to much. But should work.

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Well the sand ran out prety fast but we got the backhalf, rest of the cage running into the cab, the dash, and the rest the stuff we need to weld too. I started sanding while my dad went to get some more paint, but they where closed i assume because the superbowl. So I just sanded most the truck, except the top, and a the back of the cab. So tomorrow my dad said he would sand the little thats rest, and paint it.

Here is some pics.
First the fairlead thing.
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Then A pic of my dad blasting, and what I blasted. Looks bad but is good.

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And what I sanded, you can see the portion of the hood I didn't get.
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hows the rear axle truss? you going to gusset it?

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Its good for just driving it on and off the trailer, but we will gusset it. Most likey this week because I want to try and go wheeling this weekend. But still need a few things: The gusseting of the truss, Painted, rear driveline, and the exhaust.

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are you going to put the 70's on before or wheel the 1/2 tons?

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Going to wheel it with halfton, because it would just be easier to swap the axles and 454 in at the same time.

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Well My truck is all black except the interior, which will be painted black tomorrow. I will get pics tomorrow when it gets home. well hopefully comes home, my dad wants his coworkers help doing the exhaust, so it may stay another day. When it get here We will hopefully hook up the winchline, and the electrical on it.

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You can see the inside didn't get painted, but we will get spray it later, my dad missed a few spots, kinda hard to see but missed so I will have to get Some undercoating and spray it. Hopefully our sprayer works.
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Very nice! It is looking great!

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Well we got the pipes ran for the exhaust ran today. And hopefully getting the driveline made tomorrow. Still need to hook up the winch line and electrical for it, and gusset but hopefully we will test it on sunday.

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Well from the looks of it we are going to go do some testing sunday. We got one cherry bomb on and we have to cut the pipe on the exhaust down about a foot and a half so we can put the other one on.


Edit: we got the driveline made and are going to put it on tonight. Got the hiems fr the front just need to get the full hydro stuff and the coilovers.

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Well almost everything is on and ready to go, we need to do everything for the passanger seat, but just put the drivers side seatbelts in and gusset the truss.

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Well it did great, until we were ready to go then It messed up the fan belt to the alternator. So it heated but still drove onto the trailor. The back tire went flat, because the screw that was in it flew out. I will post the videos from youtube in a few minutes.

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The videos, The only things we did, because we got there so late. And no friends or people were around if something broke.



You can see the flat tire we got. And how we gusseted the truss.

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that thing flexes like crazy!!!

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I was waiting to go over in the first video, I thought I was going to flop but it didn't. As soon as I put a lift on the front and better bigger tires, it's going over, I'm going to try rock sqeeze.

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Cool project dude.