85 K10 - lightning

[bsgreen]

I bought this truck from my grandpa when I was 17 after spending several months trying to convince him that he really wanted to sell it to me. Sooo 10 years later it's finally time to start tearing into it and building my dream ride. It's not gonna be a crazy rock crawler or anything. Just an awesome daily driver that I can use to get to work, tow my ATV's to the trails, and do a little wheeling every once in a while. Here's what I'm starting with.

 

[78SWB]

Looks nice. What are your plans?

 

[bsgreen]

plans are to lift the truck 4 in and put it on 35s. I just ordered a ram jet 350 that should be here tomorrow . I've been debating on whether I should keep the sm465 or swap in the nv4500 since the truck will spend a lot of time on the highway. Keeping the 208 but I'm putting a SYE kit on it. Gonna get rid of the blue interior and make it mostly black and grey. Ditching the bench seat for a set of corbeau baja RS seats.

 

[78SWB]

Sounds like it will be a sweet truck. Keep us updated with pics!

 

[bsgreen]

Bed is off. frame wasn't too bad. Just a lot of surface rust.

Bare metal

painted

 

[bsgreen]

ORD shackle flip and HD shackle


Axle cleaned and painted


springs rebuilt and DIY4X shock relocate installed

 

[Deuling]

Looks great, subscibed

 

[bsgreen]

bed sand blasted


undercoated


back on the truck

 

[bsgreen]

@ dueling. thanks man. got a loooong way to go

 

[Deuling]

@ dueling. thanks man. got a loooong way to go

You have the same plan for ur rig as mine really, so im excited to see it come together

 

[bsgreen]

back is pretty much done so I started taking the front apart. Now I need to pile up a bunch of parts, get everything stripped off of the framerails and firewall and get the front looking as good as the back.

 

[magik235]

You have a solid platform to start and a great plan. I will be following the build.

 

[y5mgisi]

Subscribed! Looks nice already!

 

[bsgreen]

thanks man. I got pretty lucky with the complete lack of rust.

 

[Chevy305]

Very nice truck! Sounds like it'll be like the twin to mine but fleetside

 

[max 02]

Sweet! You are lucky with the rust...I wish.

 

[mill5471]

You are lucky ! Trucks looks very clean, nice job.

 

[82355]

I'd ditch the ugly grille and leave it just as it is. I like the blue interior.

Martin

 

[bsgreen]

haha. grilles already gone. Sold it to somebody on craigslist. Blue interior's gotta go.

 

[bsgreen]

New motor!!