My new build thread: Stage 4!

[swyfor5]

Only 6 days left for Santa shopping! CHECK THAT LIST, and CHECK IT TWICE! K5's are always's naughty and nice. K5 presents are coming to town! HO HO HO!

[drunkbus]

Get to work! This has to be the record for the longest thread with the least amount of work done.

[swyfor5]

Yea, I hear ya dbus. Thank's for reminding me of this fact. I feel I have made some good progress over the summer. Bought a lot of needed parts for the resto, and figured out what exactly I want to do to finish my K5. I spent a lot of cash, but have most of what I need to do the frame off. My major setback is I do not have a location to tear it down and work on it . Now I just need to work up the cash to finish it up. Life makes it hard sometimes to stay on track. Three teenage kids, two with fresh drivers licenses, a wife, house to maintain, today's economy, lack of funds, the list goes on. By the way, my K5 is my main focal point-but you do what you have to do-day by day. I feel I am on track for this build, and in the spring it comes back out of storage for major progress! Thank's everybody for following my long thread!

[swyfor5]

Right on BigJ! Sad, no progress here, but MERRY CHRISTMAS everybody!

[swyfor5]

Nice presents for me from Santa! My build is on track, fab work next, lining up welder work for new metal floor/rocker/etc work come spring!

[swyfor5]

Happy New Year to Everybody here! Going to work on my leftover K5 parts that will be for sale soon. I need to sell some stuff to fund the spring makeover major project! Just need to sort thru all this stuff, and get some pic's for ya'll!

[swyfor5]

Well it's been a year today since I got the 1 ton axles home. I need advice on what to line up for driveshafts . Really want to go with the High Angle shafts, I want to go with the strongest yoke/flange setup. Any advice on whether to go with the 1350 stuff or 1410? I am willing to upgrade the t-case yokes, and etc., but am kinda lost on what to pick up used and modify to fit my lift/angle setup. Quick update- Dana60 frt, 14blt rear, m465 4 speed manual, np205 t-case, 8" lift, any help on what to pick up before I can afford the HAD stuff? If I could find some used shafts to modify now, it would allow me to proceed with axle swap sooner and get the K5 mobile with the 1 tons!

[swyfor5]

Anybody got any used 1 ton shafts laying around gathering dust? Just frt and rear yoke setups would be a start. I can fab up the temp shafts for now and at least be mobile. Thank's guy's! Swapping in axles out of a "84" K3500.

[swyfor5]

Sorry, not trying to break the rules here. Just looking for some advice on these shafts, thank's guy's!

[swyfor5]

Just ordered up a set of top u-bolt plates for the Dana60 frt axle, pic's asap! Wish I had a big polebarn to work on my project, this spring things are about to change, gonna build area to house the K5!

[swyfor5]

Got the u-bolt plates today for the dana60 frt! Man are they beefy looking, 1/2 in thick steel. Came bare steel, so I need to clean and paint them up this weekend. Looked at some stock ones but they come with the sway bar mounting holes, and am planning on not running a sway bar. Now just need to round up a set of new u-bolts for the 14 blt corp rear. I'll try to get some pic's this weekend.

[swyfor5]

Alright, looking at the axle yokes again. What is best here, the 1350 or 1410? Looks like the the 1350 is more common, but am looking for some advice here! Want to upgrade all the 1 ton yokes, and looking for strongest setup.

[swyfor5]

Guess I just answered my own question doing some searching. Looks like High Anle Driveline has everything I will need for the shafts. Gonna go with the bigger 1410 u-joints, yokes, etc. Too bad I don't have any money to drop on it right now, but it will happen. Always too much month at the end of the money!

[swyfor5]

Read a real nice tech article on the HAD shafts over on Pirate 4x4. Looks like just what I need. Real pricey though, but what isn't when it comes to this stuff? I got a real nice dash bezel today, black with the chrome, looks real nice! Also got a little good news from work, looks like I'll be busy there for awhile. Thats good news for now, need more funds!

[Burt4x4]

Take pics!!


HighAngle Driveline did mine:
1410 U-joint and DIY4X guard


Kinda hard to tell but it's a flange mount at the Xfer oh and 1350 U-joint...works very well!

[swyfor5]

Right on Burt! That's what I'm looking at. Not much to take pic's of right now but about two feet of snow. In the spring when my K5 comes back out those 1 ton axles are going in and I can give Jess at HAD all the info to build mine. Hope to have saved enough cash over the winter to get both front and rear shaft setups plus the driveline e-brake too! Thank's for more pic's of your's, love it!

[coggonobrien]

just curious but how much would a guy be looking at for had driveshafts

[Burt4x4]

YEARS ago I think I paid 390 rear and 250 front..probly 2002-3 err somewere in there

[swyfor5]

Thank's Burt! In my case, I don't have the 1 tons in yet, so don't have all the specs yet to get a actual quote from Jess yet. I plan on front and rear saft setups running around $400.00-500.00 each, plus the driveline e-brake setup for $299.00 + the flange off the t-case for around $109.00 + etc = around $1500.00 or so! Hopefully I can pick it up cheaper, but just ballparking it high for now. Seems like a high price, but what a setup! Plan on doing it once and doing it right for stage 4!

[bigbadchev72]

I paid $550 for my rear shaft and flange a couple years ago. Best money I spent.

I believe my buddy was $1400 for the front, rear, flange, and driveline brake

[swyfor5]

Thank's BBC, looks like the only way to go here to do it right! I am going down this pass no matter what the cost! Any more pic's of your stuff?

[bigbadchev72]

Mine is dismantled at the moment.

Did a ton of sheetmetal replacement, Gonna re-paint charcoal mettalic, Als liner on the engine side firewall and throughout the tub, Ditched the hardtop in favor ov a soft top, My 14bolt is getting the detroit installed at the shop, New camshaft in the motor, Getting ready to do a full family Rollage, and ordered up a pair of PRP suspension seats

[swyfor5]

Wow, sounds like were kinda on the same page as far as builds go. Except your way ahead of me! Bought almost all the sheetmetal I need this summer, along with a lot of other needed parts. I like the bedliner idea for the tub firewall, planned on doing the interior and a lot of other areas that way! What do you have in mind for a family cage? I have some pic's of what I have in mind, but am always looking for new ideas.

[swyfor5]

Not much happening here, just saving for more parts. Driveshaft setups, etc! Anybody got new pic's of 1 ton drivetrain setups?

[swyfor5]

Stupid question, I see we have the new build thread forum, and want to move my thread over there. How do you link it, I am trying to figure this out and just don't get it. Can anybody walk me through it?