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1982 C/K 6.0L Caitlyn Mall Crawler (Interior time)

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campfire said:
That's great, as long as building your truck is the dream. But if using the truck is your dream, the build time is subtracting from that.

Neither way is wrong, it's totally up to you what you wanna focus on. I just wanna make sure that the dream is being lived. :thumb:
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It's both and I'm not going anywhere just yet. I have also enjoyed this truck sense I was 5 years old. I have had plenty of fun with it driving.
 
Babaganoosh said:
I can stare at this thing in the garrage and be happy. I look at what I have done and sense a great feeling of accomplishment.
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Awesome! Keep living the dream!:thumb:

(and don't pay too much attention to us in the peanut gallery)

Babaganoosh said:
It's both and I'm not going anywhere just yet. I have also enjoyed this truck sense I was 5 years old. I have had plenty of fun with it driving.
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:thumb:
 
Mr.Clean said:
Whats the point of having a truck if it spends its life sitting in the garage waiting on more fab and parts rather then using it.

For me personally i dont know how some of you guys on here do it the 2,3,5 + year builds that seem to never have an end. The reason i have a blazer is cause i want to use it. Even of it doesnt have my "Dream" set up. I still have more fun then i should with how it is.

Get it streetable. And then coninue mods if it needs it.

My .02
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Preach brotha
 
I'm willing to bet I have owned my truck way longer then most have on here. Not that it is a excuse to get it done but this is another piece to the puzzle of owning the truck. I have always wanted to do a full rebuild and I'm doing it.
 
Babaganoosh said:
I'm willing to bet I have owned my truck way longer then most have on here. Not that it is a excuse to get it done but this is another piece to the puzzle of owning the truck. I have always wanted to do a full rebuild and I'm doing it.
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Not hating on that or for you wanting to do it right.


But at some point, you gotta go have some fun in it.
 
Ben, I think what we're saying is right now you are close. You're close to realizing your dream- and even if you run some nasty ass dump truck leaf springs in the back, you're still gonna have a bad ass truck that is gonna be able to smoke those grabbers and put a smile on your face.
 
I know and I have said it a few times I'm putting the 56's in this weekend. It won't get me my goal but it will get it close. If budget allows me to I'll get the springs. Only reason the rear has come up is I'm starting to work on it and wanted some options to get the rear to work as well as the front.
 
Babaganoosh said:
I know and I have said it a few times I'm putting the 56's in this weekend. It won't get me my goal but it will get it close. If budget allows me to I'll get the springs. Only reason the rear has come up is I'm starting to work on it and wanted some options to get the rear to work as well as the front.
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It will take some solid hours of work to make it work no matter what springs you end up putting in later. Heck you might end up doing this mysterious ORD rear link setup.

So get those dump truck springs in. Get it rolling, do some smoky burnouts , haul some junk around in it so you can call it a "work truck" and then do the final rear suspension and tuning. :D
 
I think with everyone talking it has been mistaken what I'm actually doing.

I'm going to strip the dump truck pack down until it's a half ton setup again. I'm going to cycle it and see what numbers it creates. If my budge allows it I want springs to match the front with shocks and bumps. The talk about custom springs came up only because work is starting on the rear.
 
Goto junkyard and pickup a few ferd packs and integrate them into your 56s I also used some Cherokee xj springs in mine, mainly just to have as much arch as I could. 56s have more arch than the 52s I have seen anyway but still it's only like 8-9 inches. You need like 12-14 to get the travel you are looking for.
 
Desert ranger guys use a harbor freight bender to re arch the springs. You need to make a few rollers but after that you can tune it how you want. Supposedly it works pretty well and if you match the whole pack they don't sag much at all.
 
Interesting, my 56's have been 're arched. This weekend I'll get some travel numbers. I took the center pins out last Sunday and the pack literally fell apart and the main was exposed, then I had the wild idea of cycle them to set the shackle angel up.
 
sreidmx said:
Desert ranger guys use a harbor freight bender to re arch the springs. You need to make a few rollers but after that you can tune it how you want. Supposedly it works pretty well and if you match the whole pack they don't sag much at all.
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How long do they stay re-arched? I've often wondered about doing this but never knew if it would work. I didn't know if they would settle back down to their original arch eventually since they're tempered steel.
 
Deuling said:
That's cool. I has one of those.... hmmm
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Might as well, it's useless for anything else.

Well, not exactly. I did all of the bends on my sand rail with a kinker. I did take the time to ramrod the tubes full of glass bead media from my blaster and they came out fine because there weren't that many bends.

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I think they do okay for exhaust pipe as long as you don't want a nice, smooth mandrel bend or whatever. They do okay on schedule 40 iron pipe sometimes.
 
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