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2000 GMT400 CREW CAB SFA SWAP-The Warden: Fuel leak fixed and awaiting surgery…

The ultimate goal for this truck is tow duty/family camping trips/small offroad adventures.
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Man guys get your terminology straight it's not jumping into the truck.

It's a stretch. Good for the muscles ya know.

It's a whole body workout if you build a grab handle of some sorts.

Also limbers up the body for the long drive ahead.

Only benefits from lifted trucks.

All benefits
 
blazinzuk said:
Man guys get your terminology straight it's not jumping into the truck.

It's a stretch. Good for the muscles ya know.

It's a whole body workout if you build a grab handle of some sorts.

Also limbers up the body for the long drive ahead.

Only benefits from lifted trucks.

All benefits
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:haha:

I'll present these thoughts to da Boss and see what she thinks. :thinking:
 
She's the perfect height to me to punch me right in the wiener. I think I'll keep the weight loss stuff to myself. She is super skinny btw. She has no weight to get rid of.
 
GWeakland620 said:
She's the perfect height to me to punch me right in the wiener. I think I'll keep the weight loss stuff to myself. She is super skinny btw. She has no weight to get rid of.
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Hahaha. Enjoy keeping your weight-loss to yourself.

Speaking of which...you're AWOL over in the weight-loss thread. I expect an update within the next 6 minutes. :deal: :deal:
 
GWeakland620 said:
I wanted to have the overall height a little lower, says the adult in me. But the teenager/kid in me says to run it on 35's haha. I do like how the front sits. It looks good. Wife was a little caught off guard on the overall height. She's short. 5'2" and doesn't like jumping...
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Yeah, I thought the same thing until I got the lift done completely...now I love it. And my wife said the same thing (she's 5'4"). So I think I will end up building slider/steps for her...I kinda wanted to do that on my land yacht anyways.
 
Kay86K5 said:
Yeah, I thought the same thing until I got the lift done completely...now I love it. And my wife said the same thing (she's 5'4"). So I think I will end up building slider/steps for her...I kinda wanted to do that on my land yacht anyways.
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I'm slowly talking myself up from a 2" lift to a 4" lift on the camping trip. But I'm still not willing to run large tires. My small Wifey hasta be able to change the tires, and 31s are already a lot of weight for her to muscle around. She can just barely lug around 33s, that's the limit at this point.

I lifted Dave's 39.5" spare several times last week and also lifted Luke's 37" spare. Doing so has only reinforced this desire to avoid heavy tires.

PSA - make sure you bring a jack tall enough to actually lift the truck off the ground when a tire is blown. We wound up piling up firewood and using 2 jacks to get Luke's tire changed.
 
campfire said:
I'm slowly talking myself up from a 2" lift to a 4" lift on the camping trip. But I'm still not willing to run large tires. My small Wifey hasta be able to change the tires, and 31s are already a lot of weight for her to muscle around. She can just barely lug around 33s, that's the limit at this point.

I lifted Dave's 39.5" spare several times last week and also lifted Luke's 37" spare. Doing so has only reinforced this desire to avoid heavy tires.

PSA - make sure you bring a jack tall enough to actually lift the truck off the ground when a tire is blown. We wound up piling up firewood and using 2 jacks to get Luke's tire changed.
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Try changing 44" boggers on full steel recentered h1's.....I now look at 35's or 37's and throw them around like rag dolls :D

And I have to pull my boggers off and put rollers on just to fit the truck in my current garage every single time I take it out....I need property with a shop something fierce!!
 
Kay86K5 said:
Try changing 44" boggers on full steel recentered h1's.....I now look at 35's or 37's and throw them around like rag dolls :D

And I have to pull my boggers off and put rollers on just to fit the truck in my current garage every single time I take it out....I need property with a shop something fierce!!
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Yeah, changing those out each time would get old. Fast.

And no matter how much time I spend around large tires, she's still not going to touch a 37. At least, not at this point in time. Maybe in a few years, but it's never going to be easy for a small person to bench press heavy stuff. And losing sight of this fact would be a costly mistake. :deal:
 
Did some steering mock up tonight. Missing a couple adjuster sleeves. Going to have to find a drag link end that fits the taper of the pit an arm, and be short enough to make up the gap. It's looking good with steering under there though.

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Truckman4life said:
You could always redrill the taper if you need too. Maybe a different pitman arm would work also.
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I just bought this pitman arm...

It came with the kit. The pitman arm shank on the drag link is really small, almost too small. But I could always drill the pitman arm and the put a tapered insert in.
 
I just got a reamer from ruffstuff.

and did a steering arm for a project I am working on . ( NOTE : use a mill / drill press low speed ! don't try it by hand wont work right . almost screwed mine up past repair point ! ! ! )

thankfully it was just a bigger hole size and same 1.5" per foot tapper.

looking at your ends and layout I would tend to just order a few parts from one of our vendors and make something correct from the start .

with adjuster sleaves the drag link looks like it will be maxed out already before adjustments . . . no inword movment .

I have played with a few beefy steering kits from ord / ruffstuff and WOW nice feel and strong as he!! .
 
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