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6480
Gawdamn. My crew cab weighs 6540.
I didn’t believe her and made her repeat the weight to me.
Dude your 1500 lbs heavier than my long bed!
How is this possible?
Between the tires, rim protectors, the cage,the doubler, I figured as much.
Forgot you also have a winch right.
It adds up quick
Yep and the boxed frame, added a bunch of crossmembers and skid plates too. Definitely adds up.
Doesn't surprise the guy that owns a pretty similar truck in a crew cab version that weighs 8100lbs.
Adds up quickly, too! How did the 6500 lbs line up with your expectations?
There’s an ongoing conversation some friends and I had about weight, and how it’s hard to factor in wide ranging control when our formulas are all starting from a similar point - LS/400/Magnum/tons/40s/winch. That alone is 1/2-2/3 of the overall package in terms of weight. At that point, we only control the body and frame selection, material and design for any cage, bumpers; and we’re not race teams looking to rebuild a chassis every season, so durability is a concern.
This coming from a guy with a lot of steel and glass and an 8500 lb rig.
David
Yeah I agree we all are building for strength and longevity not weight shaving for racing.
I just like to keep it from getting too top heavy for stability off road and adding too much weight to negate all the power improvements we do.
That reminded me of something back home, the army could afford to buy a dozen tanks with lightweight armor or 2 dozen without, so they bought 2 dozen.
Then the local engineers went about designing a bomb proof armor and used real fire bricks sandwiched between steel plates and ended up with a very heavy but impenetrable shield.
The problem was the tanks could only move in lower gears because of the weight so, between the slow movement and the bomb proof shield the enemy thought they were ghosts and took off and retreated.
I didn't think it would crack 6K with me in it. Then again it was a spur of the moment decision to weigh it while recycling motor oil so I hadn't thought a lot about it. Now that I have thought about it more, it does make sense......
and you're right about the basic weight of the drivetrain, even JK's are well over 5500 pounds with tons and 40's.
Haven't touched the truck for a while unfortunately however I have been thinking about a few winter projects.
-Need to figure out a center console, move all the shifters and install a stereo. I'll probably buy smaller JMR die for the bender, haven't figured out what size yet?
-Install heater
-Re-install the winshield wiper motor, linkage and a new switch
-Figure out a shorter column, possibly an aftermarket with a quick release wheel.
-Gauges, might go aftermarket.
-Upgrade shocks, might need taller hoops or rework the ones I have. Also need to tie the shock hoops together.
I picked up a heavy duty finger brake from SWAG, welded that up Friday night.
-Need to figure out a center console, move all the shifters and install a stereo. I'll probably buy smaller JMR die for the bender, haven't figured out what size yet?
-Install heater
-Re-install the winshield wiper motor, linkage and a new switch
-Figure out a shorter column, possibly an aftermarket with a quick release wheel.
-Gauges, might go aftermarket.
-Upgrade shocks, might need taller hoops or rework the ones I have. Also need to tie the shock hoops together.
I picked up a heavy duty finger brake from SWAG, welded that up Friday night.
Finally got a chance to work on the truck a little over the weekend and power wash all the Fordyce dust off it.
I found my windshield wiper motor, couldn't locate the hardware so I had to run to lowes for that. Also mounted the Mojave heater on the firewall and plumbed the 5/8" heater lines. I have the duct kit along with the vents that I'll run later after I get the dash/center console figured out.
I found my windshield wiper motor, couldn't locate the hardware so I had to run to lowes for that. Also mounted the Mojave heater on the firewall and plumbed the 5/8" heater lines. I have the duct kit along with the vents that I'll run later after I get the dash/center console figured out.
As I've mentioned previously, I have a tilt steering column that is absolutely hammered and following apart. It's to the point now that I have to tilt the wheel a certain way to get the ignition on and I need a pair of pliers to pull the linkage to kick the starter. The wiper, blinker controls are long gone and the ergonomics with regards to the column have been poor since the PRP's have gone in. For ease of access I need a tilt wheel or removable steering wheel so I started by looking at aftermarket replacement columns however I quickly found those to be more than I wanted to spend. After looking at a variety of universal columns from Jeg's, Summit, Speedway, Sweet, PSC etc. I settled on a collapsible universal column from Speedway with a 20 spline output and quick release steering wheel hub. I need to buy the u-joints and a shaft to connect the column to the steering box, hoping to dig into that this week after the column is out and I have a confirmation the new column will work.
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I'd like to see how it works out, I'm considering taking the factory tilt column out of my k5 in favor of something more robust like this
