Got a new truck

[onlyifihadachevy]

There not great so i will get a pic tomarrow, and yes my dads friend has some weird storage places ,but hes pretty cool. And yes we used a cherry picker to put it in the truck. Its from a 79 chevy dump truck or something the lug nuts are 1in and it was in the truck at 10:30 and then we helped put some stuff away got home at around 12. I ate went to sleep and woke up at 6 in the morning to drop it off at my uncles shop. Worked most the day on my trucks. Found out it has 4.88s, found that by dividing 39 by 8 found it came to 4.875 which rounded comes to 4.88s.

[70 beast]

looks sweet.

[onlyifihadachevy]

i have to take off the bumpstop because it didn't fit with in it because of the power steering pump on my donor motor. But i should have it moving by the weekend.

[70 beast]

you going to run the 4:88 gears? or go lower?

[onlyifihadachevy]

4.88s should be good for offroad only and eventually 44s, the only gears i could run is 5.13s or 6.27s if they make them for the 60 and 14b. If i find my gearing not to be low enough when i switch to a th350 i will build a 203/205. I found that 4.10s and 35s and th350/203 in low and 1st was great offroad but could spin them pretty good when needed how i broke it and could do about 75-80 on the highway reving it out.

[70 beast]

sounds good.
what about suspension?

[onlyifihadachevy]

Air shocks 18in of travel in rear with a 4 link and the front stock 52s and and shackles to raise a little if need the and the rear shackle will be longer to push the front end front a little.

[onlyifihadachevy]

Me and my dad got the engine in bolted up just need a few more things to have it running the rad,clutch rods, brake booster and master need to be hooked up. put the front end in when i get the matching rear end. ANd a roll cage and rear 4 link when i get some more money.

[shilo]

Dude your rolling right along. wish i had the motive to work on my junk like you!

p.s. i wasnt calling your stuff junk, just mine

[onlyifihadachevy]

Its junk, i would take a pic of my rockers but there mainly gone and the hole in the roof, but its because i get mad when i don't have a release so i was paintballing every weekend spend 2000+ on guns, tanks hoppers,cloths, and around maybe a lot more than 4-5000 on the playing in the place on balls and air fees and air fees, then me and my dad found that during the winter we couldn't play so we decided to go wheeling more then we just got my first truck i broke it then we got the tow fee and then we decided to get another truck for offfroading only and use the other as a tow rig and they're both coming together at the same time. Which forces me to get as much done as possible and my dads friends are going a lot more and saying that i'm building it wrong and the axles will just sink but I'm going to do my best to prove them wrong. And the summer is almost over then i won't be at my uncles shop as much then i won't get much done except wheeling and fixing what gets broke.

[70 beast]

trust me...there's always time for these old irons.
i got to college full time and work full time so with a day that starts round 6am and ends round 11pm , finding time gets tough.
but somehow i always find time.
just keep on chuggin

[onlyifihadachevy]

My goal is have it drivable and go wheeling with it on the 25th for the maiden run. It will be 1/2t still and most likey no cage yet then build the cage before i go again.

[70 beast]

sounds like a plan.

thats about the time i want to have my jimmy driving also.

[onlyifihadachevy]

did you find out the hubs i think you only need the hubs if the wheel stays on with out the nut kit because i was messing with my other trucks front end and i needed the kit because the rotor and hub i have.

[onlyifihadachevy]

I cut something for the clutch down shorten it 1 3/4 " and had it welded back together and put it on and the tabs are in the wrong place, so monday im cutting a tab off and going to have it welded on. And My uncle,His worker and me are going to start on the cage, and the rear 4 link, near the end of the week i think. Because not much before its running. I learned how to media blast so i was blasting a few think i was puting on and painting them black. Pics in a little.

[84 400]

cool build. Should make for a crazy rig when done.

Check out this build over at wheelingdixie.com...... linked rear and i think he is runnig n 52's up front on 42's.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...i/DSC00679.jpg

http://www.wheelindixie.com/forums/s...t=2134&page=56

[onlyifihadachevy]

i want more flex than him but same set up, but better bracing of the shock mount looks a little small, maybe its just the pic. I may also cut the top off but i have been think of what will be on me.

[onlyifihadachevy]

this is like the cut top i would do, and the stuff i helped build for my truck.

My 60 but i can get a d60 housing for like 1000 and build the thing from the ground up but i don't have the money.

[dammitmitchell]

good work dude.. nto to be a dick.. but at first iw as like "well thsi kid's tjsut throwing money at stuff"
now it's like..
well crap.. this "kid" is making gold out of wood....
way to go man....

keep it up.. and stick with it.. sometimes the old timers just are stuborn "dicks"...

i proved my old man wrong.. i bought a jeep that would be "cubed" in a mater of weeks..
it's been well over 1 years and it' sstill 75% origional..
eat it old man!
hahahhaha
p.s. their advice is sitll awesome usually
good luck..

hey.. stop mud bogging it until it's 4wd again.. otherwise yer just wating gas and time..

laters!

[onlyifihadachevy]

in total i have spend 960 for this truck. And yes everyone i know thinks its trash but a few people. i feel why get something nice just to mess up, sure it was a lot for what it was but i think its worth the experince. If i got something nicer i wouldn't be able to learn some of the stuff, and wouldn't apperciate as much, because i didnt know what when into building it.

And yes i learned well sort of i didn't hit the bog i went on a few trails crack the case amd some other stuff but i fixed most of it still need the d-line and new perchs but thats what i'm doing monday. Then next weekend since i don't think this will be done, going to help pick up some trash in hollister then spend the rest of the day wheeling. My dads barrowing his boss's trailer just in case.

[onlyifihadachevy]

wait my grandma gave me the 60 back so i spend 900, i help at my uncles shop and i have a tab that shows everything i bought and they pay for the small stuff, i pay for tires,wheels, the more costly stuff. I get the stuff for their prices, plus tax. But in total 960 has been spent on it.

[70 beast]

Originally Posted by onlyifihadachevy

did you find out the hubs i think you only need the hubs if the wheel stays on with out the nut kit because i was messing with my other trucks front end and i needed the kit because the rotor and hub i have.

yah. i took some hubs off another axle i had laying around and they bolted right up.

[84 400]

cool man. yeah i will never go as "extreame" as you are with the link setup and all. I am just happy with my 1/2 and showing up the jeep guys. Here is a pic of what that truck started as....


Not what i would have done but hey to each there own. your truck should make for quite the capible rig when complete.

[onlyifihadachevy]

nice truck i see many people think that i should do as much to it but i figure do everything then change what i don't like. the axles will be last i don't plan on running them yet. I priced the leaf springs and found they're about 200+ea for the proper leafs for my trucks thats wholesale price. Fox airshocks will end up being 230ea if i don't get them for wholesale. And the labor for the linking and cage will be free. The i would like to show up jeeps.

I'm only linking the rear and the front will come later if it gets done. The 44s if i get them i'm running in the muddy times only because the tag that comes with them.


And i'm going to tow no matter what so i think i might just make it as best as possibe with the lease money as possible. If i get the leafs then i find i don't flex i would like then im out of the springs cost

[onlyifihadachevy]

well i finally got everything for the clutch made, i only need to put a rod in then, i will start on getting the wires hooked up and then it should start.