Happy Birfday you old fart!
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77 C20 hauler to crawler
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You’re going to catch me quick and pass me at 80mph 
That mileage number is impressive! My bone stock 2013 2500HD gets 12.9 like clockwork and it’s not even remotely as badass as this truck is
HBD!
Thanks man!!!!
80 is fun in these trucks, my mpg is about 10 and 8m turning 2400. Happy birthday old man.
Thanks dude! Yeah I love driving it! It’s going to be fun to wheel too!
Not a lot of changes, but I have done a few things with it over the past 4 months.
First off.... August GMOTM! Woot lol
Wyoming state fair parade with Vince. We didn’t win any awards but the people absolutely loved my truck.
I dumped the clutch one night after work and the worthless lockrite unloaded violently and I swore I broke something bad. It was bad..... couldn’t find anything wrong and it kept moving so I kept driving it. I finally got sick of the locker engaging and disengaging constantly so I made the decision to ho back to an open diff. Poor thing. Good news is I have a hookup for a grizzly locker at wholesale cost so that’ll be happening some time soon.
I’ve taken lots of poser shots. Needs a bumper
Couldn’t find any external damage until I noticed one of the tabs on my torque mount was broken off. I fixed that right away.
Went on a trail ride with a buncha jeep guys. Established dominance.....
after that trip I found more damage....
snapped all the mounting bolts on my 203. Drilled them out and stepped up to a 3/8” bolt.
And since then I haven’t done anything to it other than drive it. It has been parked in the garage for a couple weeks while I drive bad grandpa back and forth to work but it did great as my daily for a few months. I even averaged 12mpg! Going to build a bumper soon now that my plasma table is up and running but other that that I kinda like how it turned out. Wheels and tires will be happening before long too. And I guess that’s it?
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First off.... August GMOTM! Woot lol
Wyoming state fair parade with Vince. We didn’t win any awards but the people absolutely loved my truck.
I dumped the clutch one night after work and the worthless lockrite unloaded violently and I swore I broke something bad. It was bad..... couldn’t find anything wrong and it kept moving so I kept driving it. I finally got sick of the locker engaging and disengaging constantly so I made the decision to ho back to an open diff. Poor thing. Good news is I have a hookup for a grizzly locker at wholesale cost so that’ll be happening some time soon.
I’ve taken lots of poser shots. Needs a bumper
Couldn’t find any external damage until I noticed one of the tabs on my torque mount was broken off. I fixed that right away.
Went on a trail ride with a buncha jeep guys. Established dominance.....
after that trip I found more damage....
snapped all the mounting bolts on my 203. Drilled them out and stepped up to a 3/8” bolt.
And since then I haven’t done anything to it other than drive it. It has been parked in the garage for a couple weeks while I drive bad grandpa back and forth to work but it did great as my daily for a few months. I even averaged 12mpg! Going to build a bumper soon now that my plasma table is up and running but other that that I kinda like how it turned out. Wheels and tires will be happening before long too. And I guess that’s it?
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Not sure why the Chilean miners are in there but what the heck.... they earned it
Lmao I was wondering what that pic was for! Do you think you are getting binding with the rear mount on the t-case the way it is and how it broke the mount and then also broke the 203 bolts? Like either it is not allowing it to move correctly in relation to the engine or maybe the engine is moving too much.
I think the bolt was loose and it was underbuilt. I also had a bad driveline vibration that I needed to take care of sooner. Dumping the clutch and burning 40s probably didn’t help either. Lol it’s holding up now so I think it will be ok. But I really do need to swap the motor mounts out for some poly mounts.
Great update! Glad to see you putting the truck to use. Also one must ALWAYS establish dominance over heeps. Good work.
The funny thing is I didn’t have my overflow hooked up on my radiator so it squirted some coolant at the one on the other side.
Thanks man! I’ll have to make a review for the table but so far it’s pretty awesome.
Where do you all usually run trails?
Usually in my sleep.... lol
There aren’t any good trails around here. I used to go to Moab a couple times a year but life changes put a put a kibosh to that. Planning on doing some snow wheeling this winter up around the same area as the trail we ran this fall. Hopefully @530BLAZER will be able to join us! Other than that I’m going to try and make it back to Moab, the black hills, and Colorado over the next year.
I still haven't had time to try and figure out my engine troubles 
I hope to be able to make it!! I haven't got to play in the blazer since spring...
I hope to be able to make it!! I haven't got to play in the blazer since spring...
I need inner fenders.
