Daily Drivers

[Tx Firefighter]

This is what I drive back and forth to work (80 miles round trip). It's an old long bed that I shortened and threw together with junk out of all my friend's scrap piles. 350/350/3.08. Gets the best mileage of any old truck I've ever built. I think its the skinny tires. I usually always run fat tires on my junk. It's sitting outside my shop in this picture getting a master cylinder so I can drive it to work in the morning.

[Willowrun]

Originally Posted by Tx Firefighter

This is what I drive back and forth to work (80 miles round trip). It's an old long bed that I shortened and threw together with junk out of all my friend's scrap piles. 350/350/3.08. Gets the best mileage of any old truck I've ever built. I think its the skinny tires. I usually always run fat tires on my junk. It's sitting outside my shop in this picture getting a master cylinder so I can drive it to work in the morning.

Your stepper has a nice stance. Mind sharing the drop, wheels, and tires specs?

[Tx Firefighter]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

Your stepper has a nice stance. Mind sharing the drop, wheels, and tires specs?

Front is DJM 3 inch drop spindles and one coil cut from the stock springs. 215/75-15 on stock 6 inch wheels

Rear is flipped with a homemade setup. I bought weld on axle saddles for 13 dollars from a Summit and did it myself. Rear shocks are Belltech. Rear tires are 235/75-15 on stock 6 inch wheels.

It's not perfect, but I did it to prove how cheaply I could throw a truck together. There's about 900 dollars sitting there. The drop spindles, new gas tank and sendings unit, new brakes and ball joints ate up a lot of that. All the important stuff is new. Every seal, every hose, every brake part from front to back is brand new. All suspension is new or tight.

[rs74]

Originally Posted by Tx Firefighter

There's about 900 dollars sitting there.

Do I need to send you a check for $900 for the truck.

[Willowrun]

Originally Posted by Tx Firefighter

Front is DJM 3 inch drop spindles and one coil cut from the stock springs. 215/75-15 on stock 6 inch wheels

Rear is flipped with a homemade setup. I bought weld on axle saddles for 13 dollars from a Summit and did it myself. Rear shocks are Belltech. Rear tires are 235/75-15 on stock 6 inch wheels.

It's not perfect, but I did it to prove how cheaply I could throw a truck together. There's about 900 dollars sitting there. The drop spindles, new gas tank and sendings unit, new brakes and ball joints ate up a lot of that. All the important stuff is new. Every seal, every hose, every brake part from front to back is brand new. All suspension is new or tight.

Thanks!
I like trucks with character and yours has it.

[Tx Firefighter]

I probably overstated the costs a bit. It was 900 when I first got it on the road. Since then I've put a new carburetor and battery on it. Plus some little nick nacks like tailgate chains, a saddle blanket seat cover, battery cables, door and window rubbers, and now a master cylinder. Probably 1500 now.

[82chevdiesel]

Heres my dd, I put about 300 miles a week on it. Its been reliable so far it has an isuzu 4bd1t with nv4500 5 speed swap in it.