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1990 K5 - The Dent Side K5

90 K5 Blazer on tons and 37’s
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Stephen said:
It's tight making the outboard shock thing work with big tires and bigger shocks. Pushing the mount forward off the axle tube will help along with tipping the top forward enough to clear the top of the tire when it articulates. Some wheel spacers might be your friend also. We've also done it by rotating the caliper to the front and putting the shock low and behind the axle then taking it through the floor behind the seat. That way it's a relatively small intrusion into the interior.
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Yes listen to this guy.


don’t go inside the frame and angle them towards the front. My truck doesn’t work along with those 2 link traction bars. :haha:


In all seriousness listen to Stephen and make it work how you want it. I had to compromise on my shock mounting cause I absolutely wasn’t cutting into the bed.
 
I really do hate to be the guy that comes in after it's built and says it's wrong but...

That crossmember layout is the tranny cracker champion. When the bushings are at the frame rail it makes the whole assembly so stiff that it is essentially solid mounted and when the engine is not solid mounted and you have a chassis that will flex some, you're going to crack stuff. You can keep using the base crossmember but I'd look at mounting the Magnum foot to the crossmember with the puck system that was with it so that it has some bushings to flex closer to centerline. Something like this pic which is from our Convertible K30. It's a left hand 205 so the mounting system to the Magnum is very different but the mounting idea would be the same. In the pic, there is a urethane puck above the mount foot and then the one that you see below the foot. 2015-05-30_12-36-26_777.jpg
Again, sorry for swooping in after the work is done but better now than after you need a new trans housing or that one welded up.
 
Only ~1” over the junk yard 63’s i had before which isn’t too bad. The truck should settle a bit once it’s driven and the rear bumper goes on. Hoping once it’s all back together and the weight of the spare tire/bumper deal will bring it down another 2” so i can lower the front some more too
 
skunked said:
Looks good :saweet: We need to connect sometime for a trail run.
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Sounds rad dude!

Need to do a couple more things to button this phase of the build up before it hits the trail again.
  • I am rerouting the front brake lines so I wont worry about pinching the flex line in the coil or the air bump.
  • Removing the eldorado rear calipers and cables to install regular JB6's and the ORD ball valve line lock.
  • Vintage Air (the engine bay is a mess right now)
  • Final install of the cable shifter
  • Patch back the hole cut in the rear for the shocks and bumps
    • Going with a Send Cut Send oval and some rubber from McMaster
  • Trimming fenders
  • Align the front end
  • New exhaust. Had to cut part of the old one out to fit the NP205
 
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