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My neglected 72
My dad picked this truck up for me when I was 13. I drove it through my junior year of high school until I blew a head gasket and the engine we replaced it with. 2 years later I joined the navy and the truck sat at my parents house while I squirreled away some money to build an engine and transmission for it. I got it back on the road again and used it as my daily driver until I was deployed. While my dad was driving the truck from San Diego to Northern California the freshly built 700r4 gave out. The “great shop” that built the transmission rebuilt it under warranty and I paid to have them rebuild the transfer case at the same time. They kept the truck for 6 months, didn’t touch the transfer case, and “blew up” the rear end on a test drive. I got the truck towed back to me in San Diego and built a rear end while I was waiting on the truck and installed it when the truck got to my house. Excited to be reunited with my truck after a long deployment I was disappointed to find out the transmission was left untouched for 6 months and was completely inoperable. After this the truck has sat and kinda been picked apart for other projects and left neglected until I game up with a decision on what to do with it. As the years have gone by my hobbies have changed but my passion for exploring the mountains and difficult trails has only grown. Many won’t like the direction I’m taking a classic and say I’m ruining it, but at the end of the day it’s my truck, it’s been part of my life for almost 19 years now and will be with me until I die. At that point it will be my kids problem to deal with me ruining it. Last February I sold my duramax and started funding a big budget build on this old truck. Last month I finally got the last of the parts I have been waiting to come in on back order.
Here’s the build plan. Dana 60 front arb locker Yukon chromo axles and super joints. Yukon hubs. 14 full float arb locker 40x13.5r17 nitro trail grapplers on method beadlocks 14 in travel king coilovers with ORD 4 link 14 in travel king smooth body with custom 63 in leafs (may link later) West Texas steering box and redneck ram hydraulic assist ORD cross over steering. Ruff stuff 7/8 heim high steer Built 350 with Holley sniper efi Nv4500 with np203/205 doubler Tom woods drive shafts Internal roll cage with prp suspension seats. Vintage air Dakota digital cruise control Raptor lined paint Custom built bumpers
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Re: My neglected 72
Here’s some pictures from being neglected back to being love and back to neglect.
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Re: My neglected 72
Thank you for your service truck is in good shape I think it’s going to be bad @ss truck keep us posted on the process.
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Re: My neglected 72
Went to ruff stuff Black Friday and picked up the tie rod and hemis. Also got the hydraulic assist in from West Texas Offroad. Some other parts that I’ve started collecting for the build this summer.
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Re: My neglected 72
Took a couple of days off the other week and made some pretty good progress. Front clip and bed removed. Had the carriage bolts spin in the bed and didn’t have help coming until the weekend. I tacked the carriage bolt to the bed and got the nuts off the bottom. Then I used a cherry picker to lift the bed and pull it out of the way.
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Re: My neglected 72
Thanks, I’ll keep posting results of the build. All my big money stuff besides tires and wheels I have bought and received. If all goes as planned I’ll be hitting the trails and driving it to the carpool by late June.
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Re: My neglected 72
With the front clip out of the way I was able to start removing the old suspension and getting the link brackets from Offroad Designed tacked in place. The drivers side jigged it self in good using that spring perch and bolts from the Dana 60 diff housing. The drivers side took quite a bit of time to get tacked in at the same angle as the passenger side. After a little swearing and some taps with a mini sledge I got the two link brackets tacked in place within 0.05 degrees.
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Re: My neglected 72
Thank u for your service nice truck
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Re: My neglected 72
I didn't see what trans you are going with?
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Re: My neglected 72
Early nv4500 with advanced adaptors bellhousing and np203/205 doubler
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Re: My neglected 72
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Re: My neglected 72
Got a couple hours in on it tonight. Need to get some more drill bits and an air hammer so I can get all these old rivets off. Hopefully will have the frame side link mounts installed tomorrow. Then I can start working on the new steering and pan hard bar.
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Re: My neglected 72
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Re: My neglected 72
Off Road Design frame link mount is the same mount for 67 to 72 4x4 that they sell for their square bodies. Finally got the body mount removed to find non of the wholes lined up. I was going to drill new holes in the link bracket but decided against it. I got the link bracket tacked in place and will weld the body mount in place after everything gets cycled. I think the cab may have to come off tomorrow as just unbolting one side and lifting the cab made for some interesting words while trying to remove the top rivets.
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Re: My neglected 72
Very cool build and nice truck! I wouldn't call it ruined. Build it how you want it and enjoy it! Also, thanks for your service!
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Re: My neglected 72
Having the front clip removed made changing the steering box with West Texas Offroad box super easy. Got off road design crossover steering installed and realized the high steer from ruff stuff specialties will interfere with the pan hard bar. I’ll have a Dana 60 drivers side high steer arm for sale soon.
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Re: My neglected 72
After getting the steering in last night, it was time to get the suspension set to full bump. This was a lot harder than anticipated due to the weight and and noting to keep it from rolling. After dropping a dana60 a few times and some redneck ingenuity with some ratchet straps I finally the axle pretty close to where I wanted it. Taking the longest of all the link measurements I cut the links and tacked in rock jock Johnny joints. Now all 4 links are cut and installed and the axle sits right where I want it.
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Re: My neglected 72
I understand the truck connection to your dad. Another thanks for serving us. Great you are making progress. You are somewhat going the route I am with my build. Looks great. I know how much work it is. I am in the midst of finalizing my front four link, check out my build if you would like. Getting parts seems to take some time fir me. Why using heims on steering? Is this a competition rig? IME they require lots of maintenance and may only last a few thousand miles on a driver. Am ditching the Heim on at least one end of the ORD trac bar myself. An x cut in head of rivet and hitting with long stroke air hammer has rivets out quickly as I have found out.
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Re: My neglected 72
First and foremost...THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE..freedom is not free.
I like your build plans, especially since I'm an old rockcrawler from back in the day.. it's your truck so do whatever you like..I've included a pic from "back in the day" when I won the world Supercrawl in Farmington NM |
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Re: My neglected 72
Richard, I took your advice and borrowed a better air hammer from my father in law and it made all the difference in the world removing these old rivets. I was going back and forth on using heims or TRE on the steering and got a killer deal on heims. I may just use the bigger heims I got for replacements on the track bar and still go TRE on the steering.
52napco Thank you. I’ve done a few jeeps and Toyota wheeling rigs and found I really enjoy crawling so I figured I might as well build my favorite truck to go do my favorite activities. Farmington is on my bucket list.
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Re: My neglected 72
Had to do a little bit of rework as I moved the axle too far forward and was getting the track bar and coil bound up together. Now that those clear I’ve started cutting the shock hoops. Axle to frame and shock height are set at ride height. I’m going to have to run brake lines and power steering lines a little different. Shock is going to be very close to master cylinder to get the 3 degrees needed for shock placement.
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Re: My neglected 72
Awesome truck! The truck is going to be great when its done! My dad bought me a 1972 K20 as my first truck when I was 14. Sadly we did not keep it and moved onto other various projects. Its the one vehicle that I have had over the years that I wish I would have kept! Good for you for keeping the truck around through all that BS, making it your own is the best decision a guy can make.
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Re: My neglected 72
After a long Saturday I got the shock hoops cut and tacked in and the shocks mounted. I’ll be working on the tie in today. I haven’t ordered my tires yet so I’m going to barrow my buddies spare and get the suspension cycled.
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