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was it hard to make that front end work on a 76? i want to do this to my 76. i have everything but that cowl panel behind the hood.

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The fenders and rad support are cake. The hood and hinges require cutting the firewall and making holes for the 81 up hood dinges. Then you have to adapt the hinges to the firewall. You slao have to make mounts for the cowl pins to set in. I decided that was more work than I wanted to spend on this thing, so I purchased a 74 front clip for this truck. The hood is just setting on there in the pics.

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Would you still sell the truck? I really liked it better with the big lift and tires.
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Yeah, everything has it's price. :lol:

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Attachment 955103
in this picture how much lift did it have? i know where there is a 4x4 80 model dually for sell and i would love to make it that big.

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It had about 20" of lift and the tires were 52". Some people say they are 53". I never really measured them. :lol:

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What all did u do? I seen it said 12 inch springs
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He has a 4x4 welded to the bottom of the frame for the front springs to mount, and a longer shackle for the rear of the front spring and also looks like a 4 inch body lift.

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You're almost right.

It had a 3" body lift, shackle flip in the rear with 8" springs and a 4" block. It had 12" springs in the front with a 4"x4" 1/4" thick tube that the spring perches are wlded to, and the front shackles were longer. I moved the shackles back in the frame to give it more lift as well. It sat 22" taller with 235's on it that a stock height K20 did with 235's on it.

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I think I'm going to just do 12 inch springs and 4 inch blocks and run like 44s
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Well Ryan. thanks to you, I have just thrown another iron in the fire.I posted it on my crew cab thred.

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August is almost up, are ya done yet? :lol:

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Hahaha I don't think this thing has been touched sense he posted that tbh!
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He has been focusing on a customers truck this month trying to finish that conversion.

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Between that and the Longhorn, plus we just finished our friend's pulling truck. We need more hours in the day.

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I know what he's been up to, I seem to get random pictures sent to me of his progress on stuff.

I think there is a cummins that needs to be torn apart and put back together if I remember correctly :devil: and if I had a dollar for every time you said you need more hours in a day I'd have you payed off by now! :lol:
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I know what he has been doing too, I keep tripping over it...

It will help when I have all the right parts for my truck so I can stop playing with it. Maybe ill ake a head off a Cummins someday and see what it looks like...

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Haha I bet he has a ton of stuff and he keeps telling me he is thinking about buying another project... That's all he needs. What all are you
Doing to your truck?
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Tryin to put a bigger drivershaft in, reverse light, front bumper if its ever done, new "regulator" for fuel system, and a few other things to have done for this weekend.

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Is there something this weekend or just trying to get it done? Are you going to the truck show with Ryan the 8th?
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Im pretty sure im going lol and there is a 2 day sled pull this weekend

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Sounds like fun, if you are there then I probably will see you there. Is Ryan making you work on my motor? Lol
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Listen to you two ladies. Blab blab blab. Get to work punks!

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You keep saying there is not enought time Ina day, so why are you wasteing time on the computer? :devil:
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Cause I should have been sleeping ITTO. :mm: :lol:

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I've been compiling a list of parts for this truck so I can try to get it going before the new year. I did get a 73-80 front clip for it, so the newer one is off of it. We happened to get a rebuilt diesel 47rh, so now I have to get my triple disc billet TC re stalled for this truck. I've been talking with the wife and the sun visor is coming off, and the truck will be a magenta color with upper and lower mouldings. The interior is going to be black now. Since this is her truck, she's getting to make some calls. (I hope the color doesn't bite me in the...)

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i doubt it. it was great meeting you in person too

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For a while i was wondering if this was going to get sacrificed for your 67-72 crew build
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That's a lot of work to get done. You and your dead lines :lol:, really looking forward to seeing this one!
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when this truck was lifted the 22inch?(ithink thats what you said) was it drivable? as far as steering and stoping? im thinking about doing this to a truck/suburban and i need to get a parts list. Did you ever have shocks on it? what all did you have to use to correct the steering? as far as drop pitman arm, steering block? what all did you have to use for that? Thanks and awesome truck

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If ryan doesnt mind i think i could answer this question haha. First off you need to think about what direction you want to go with the truck... e.g. mall crawler, mud bogger, ect. If you are considering going with that big of a lift and tires (12" and heavy military 53's) i would strongly look at going to at least 2 1/2 tons. the 6.72 gear ratio will allow you to compensate with a under powered motor if thats the case. Again really depends on what your intentions are with the vehicle, as well as budget! But leafs run pretty bad when they get that arched cause they typically add leaf packs as well as if its going on a truck or even a suburban i would look at a dot tire cause the military tires are really friggen heavy and dont flex on rocks at all i think some of the bias ply ones are like 12 or 14 ply. I would look into a set of coils or nitrogen shocks and do a single or double triangluated 4 link. Also i would look into hydraulic steering unless you are wanting to do a frankenstein steering setup that at the end of the day your still counting on a stock pump to turn big heavy tires with alot of stress on the whole steering setup. Brakes if you run rocks go with pinion brakes 6 times as strong as wheel brakes but spin 6 times as fast so they heat up pretty quick.

I speak 100% from experience ha, i built my truck with big gawdy 25" leaf springs and 54" boggers and it ran like crap really stiff, very unstable and sucked driving anywhere.

So i pulled it apart built a tube frame chassis, running a double triangluated 4 link setup a blown alcohol injected 572 big block boggers and race blown nitrogen shocks.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=510400

If you have any questions at all please just ask and ill do my best to help as much as i can, hope this helps ya out a bit... sorry ryan for hacking your build thread its pretty schweet!

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Hey man, no problem here at all. If anyone argues with you, they don't have a clue. :lol: I'm all about putting the info out there so the more the merrier. :metal:

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Great build, subbed, hope you finish it

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grerat built wish i had my truck back with the 10 inch lift i had and 44's it road rough but was beautiful truck

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Very cool project Ryan. I didn't realize you had so many irons in the fire....subscribed

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Mike, this truck is really on the back burner now. :lol: It's storage and a yard ornament until further notice. Haha

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Do you have enough burners?

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No, that's why they're all not done. :lol:

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this is an awesome project ryan! im kinda new to here but ive read this forum and ive decided to switch my plans! i got a question for ya though. ((on the bottom picture)). I love the stance of your truck, at that stage. could you tell me the size of lift you were running body and suspension? and also what size tire rim combo were you runnin?

this is an awesome truck man are you still wrenching on it??

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i think it will look great as the 76 it is... although im partial to the round headlights. and high hood. i have only owned 2 short beds.. and wasnt too fond of them as I tend to use my trucks as trucks.. that thing will be cool as hell but not sure about Magenta... but I guess that will discourage you from using it....lol