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1968 c30 "Papa Smurf" prerunner build. links, beams, and turbo

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Got the truck street legal...ish Friday and drive the truck to my work steak fry. Drove home and loaded up headed to silver lake for the weekend. My brother showed up early Saturday and I took him for a ride in the dunes where I sheared 5 studs drifting a corner doing 50ish into some deep chatter at the beach. Tire went flying and dented the box. Left some rubber marks on the door and bent my mirror. I spent the day Saturday at a shop fixing the studs and had to put a new caliper on. My upper link bent from the force of dragging the axle thru the sand. Got it fixed and ran it Sunday no issues other then some soft brakes from putting the new caliper on. Short work week this week and I’m prepping the truck to head back to the dunes Fri-Sun for Jeep Invasion weekend. Terracrew is coming and is having a booth set up and asked me to bring my truck so looking forward to terrorizing some Jeep people this weekend.

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Bummer, how did you get it out of there?

How does the wheel tapered holes and the studs look, you should be able to tell if the studs were a clean break or they had any rub marks on them from working loose before they sheared?

Be interesting to know.
 
Just a heads up, I used p30 van studs and was able to get all of them from summit, they’re extra long though. I needed them for the aluminum wheels.
I actually have a set of piloted studs if you want I’d sell them to ya cheap.. (80$) I have absolutely no use for them?

I have also been told by a few guys even with the 5/8 studs on the steel wheels they pull the nut through the wheel flange sometimes so I’d keep an eye on that..
 
folkenheath said:
Bummer, how did you get it out of there?

How does the wheel tapered holes and the studs look, you should be able to tell if the studs were a clean break or they had any rub marks on them from working loose before they sheared?

Be interesting to know.
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To get it out I took the caliper and rotor off and pinched the brake line with vise grips. I pounded out 2 studs for the other side and put them on the broke axle and drove it out and back to camp that way.

So all last year I had 2” wheel spacers on the 9”. Never had an issue. This year in order to clear the bedsides I ditched the spacers to be able to tuck at full bump. My best guess is what happened is the studs where stretched from last year and now that I put a steel wheel at the base of the stud and under the force I came in sideways it was too much and snapped all of them clean flush at the axle. I relaced all the studs when I fixed it on both sides and the spacers are still off. I also think the lug nuts could have been a little loose. I only had put them on with my electric impact me I noticed when I was taking off the driver tire to steal studs the lug nuts where barely tight. The holes in the wheel are fine not egged out. I am hoping the new 1/2” studs make it thru one more weekend of dunes and I’ll take some time after that to start swapping to 5/8”. Getting some aluminum beadlock wheels is on the list for someday.
 
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Mr.Clean said:
To get it out I took the caliper and rotor off and pinched the brake line with vise grips. I pounded out 2 studs for the other side and put them on the broke axle and drove it out and back to camp that way.

So all last year I had 2” wheel spacers on the 9”. Never had an issue. This year in order to clear the bedsides I ditched the spacers to be able to tuck at full bump. My best guess is what happened is the studs where stretched from last year and now that I put a steel wheel at the base of the stud and under the force I came in sideways it was too much and snapped all of them clean flush at the axle. I relaced all the studs when I fixed it on both sides and the spacers are still off. I also think the lug nuts could have been a little loose. I only had put them on with my electric impact me I noticed when I was taking off the driver tire to steal studs the lug nuts where barely tight. The holes in the wheel are fine not egged out. I am hoping the new 1/2” studs make it thru one more weekend of dunes and I’ll take some time after that to start swapping to 5/8”. Getting some aluminum beadlock wheels is on the list for someday.
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I checked mine last trip and when I got home they were loose also. I now check them before I put it on the trailer every trip.. I keep the breaker bar with me also and check a few when I am out just in case..
 
sreidmx said:
How fast are you going in that spot
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On average 80ish thru there. I’ve done 100 thru there when it was empty and no traffic. The fastest section thru the dunes. Big stretched out rollers. Uses all the droop and bump running thru them but it’s smooth and smurf takes it. Once I do some stud and brake upgrades I think I can hit it faster under control. The first corner coming to square up to the rollers is about 70mph 2nd gear on the rev limiter usually doing some 3 wheeling. Probably my favorite section in our dunes.
 
Mr.Clean said:
On average 80ish thru there. I’ve done 100 thru there when it was empty and no traffic. The fastest section thru the dunes. Big stretched out rollers. Uses all the droop and bump running thru them but it’s smooth and smurf takes it. Once I do some stud and brake upgrades I think I can hit it faster under control. The first corner coming to square up to the rollers is about 70mph 2nd gear on the rev limiter usually doing some 3 wheeling. Probably my favorite section in our dunes.
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Awesome.. totally awesome.. I can finally relate to what your saying, best feeling in the world is wide open sideways through stuff you shouldn’t be wide open and sideways in..
 
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