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96 s10 blazer, getting a 5.3L

ssyork said:
Running a NV4500 tranny out of a '96. Just the regular one, not the super lower first gear. Wife can push the clutch since its hydraulic, instead of the old 4 speed. It was changed when it was still a DD, 5 years ago or so. Crawl will be 160.1. Will do some vid when we take her out the first time, hopefully the second wek in May. They just called drive lines are done!:saweet::saweet:. Just have to do some shift linkage next.
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used this http://www.grimmjeeper.com/gears.html and if your running 36" like your profile showed then its lower than 160.31 to 1

thats nv4500/241/205/5.38/36" tires.



that .31 can be a real bonus at times better count it.
 
sweetk30 said:
used this http://www.grimmjeeper.com/gears.html and if your running 36" like your profile showed then its lower than 160.31 to 1

thats nv4500/241/205/5.38/36" tires.



that .31 can be a real bonus at times better count it.
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You are right with the combo. I ran the numbers back in Feb or jan when I was putting it all together and just remembered the 160. I really like the grimmjeeper calculator with being able to compare side to side and changing so many factors. I also remember @ 1000 rpm I will be doing 59 feet a minute.
 
sawzall said:
sweet, with a sm465/241/205 and 4.56's mine is going to be at around 160:1 as well. what size tires do plan on running?
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Nice. Your trannys a bit lower than mine so we are looking pretty close. I will be running My 36 iroks for atleast another year. They rub My frame on the front @ full turn full stuff. I didn't even grind My steering stops down. So hopefully next winter I'm going to tube the front frame section and go 3 link with a panhard. So I can goto some bigger meats then.
 
Here are my new drive lines. The slip parts are from High Angle Drive line. Both are 1410 joints. Then I had a local drive line shop cut off my 1350 cv's and weld the tubes on. Front is 36" at ride height, rear is 44" at ride. Now they get to sit all weekend while I'm gone to a school.:crazy:

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So here is how the rear drive shift linkage ended up. It still will a bit of cleaning and painting. And of coarse a bolt instead of the section of u-bolt going thru it. Only thing I had long enough at home, bought a grade 8 and nyloc this morning. The plan is to put another tab going up on the drivers side. The front drive linkage will then be bolted to it and the middle tab, just lower than the rear linkage. Any body have any thought on the durability of doing it this way? I can add more gussets if need be. Thats why I added the top tube in the last pic. A pain to weld it, but got it 90% of the way around. This one shifted good last night. A little tough, but with no movement and no lube up on the gears yet, I wasn't too surprised. Any suggestions before I burn the other tab on tomorrow night would be great.

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Your doubler is solid mounted to the crossmember correct?

If not, movement between the doubler and crossmember may give you problems.
 
No, the 205 is on 2 poly bushings, the 241 is on a new poly tranny mount in the stock location. I was hoping the 3/8 heims would be able to deal with any twisting of the frame. Good point though, something I will be watching.
 
Here is how the shift linkage turned out. I used 3/8 heims, and all thread. Then sleeved the all thread with schedule 80 pipe. I was going to put a tack weld on the pipe at teh jam nuts. Figured that might be a pain to get off, so I just put a dab of rtv to keep them from doing any rattling. I did mess up by putting the tube across the top above the rear flange. I will have to cut it out when I have to get the doubler out.
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. Thats what you get at 1AM on a week night I guess though. Seems I did something else wrong too because everything works. Shifts, twin stick works, wont let me go high/low at the same time. I also added a little 3/16" skid plate where the 241 hung down the lowest. Had it laying there figured I might as weld it on. I'm pretty happy with the overall turn out. See how it does this weekend w/ mnorby down in Wyoming.

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With the doubler I added an anti wrap bar I got from MNorby, thanks again. It followed the driveline pretty well. Little steeper angle, but close. It has poly bushings at the axle, then ballistic joints at the cross member. The cross member is 2" 1/4 wall. Then I used a piece of the 2" to cup the ballistic joint off of the back of the cross member to gain a little more drive line clearance. Another piece of the 2" on top to act as a gusset too. Don' t mind the sweet looking exhaust behind the joint. I hacked all the pieces laying on the floor into what you see. I was tired of paying the exhaust shop to do it, this would have been the third time on this truck. The glob-o-weld is from them filling their hole one of the times. Started grinding it down but figured there wasn't much gain in doing so. The last pic is all the crap stuffed under my ass end now. Hopefully we don't have any collisions, doesn't look like we will only one way to find out though.
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Nice. Loving the build. I would like to run this set-up but I still do a fair amount of road driving.

Have you driven it at any higher speeds? I'm curious as to if the intermediate shaft has any vibration since it just "floats" there.
 
stan1688 said:
Nice. Loving the build. I would like to run this set-up but I still do a fair amount of road driving.

Have you driven it at any higher speeds? I'm curious as to if the intermediate shaft has any vibration since it just "floats" there.
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Thanks. Last weekend was the first time out with it. I was extremely happy with how everything worked. Just have to remember all of my options now. I maybe got up to 30 with it on dirt, so no highway speeds yet. I did have a spacer made that I put in the 205 behind the shaft so that it can't slide back and forth. I didn't get any weird vibrations or bangs or loud noises though, so that made me really happy.
 
More than I needed to! Am so used to grabbing low and 1st w/ tranny that I was doing that and then having to shift again to get some wheel speed. My low-low with tranny in 2nd is around 87:1 which is only a little lower than my old low, so I am used to it. It worked really well for me. Really I only used low low to play with. I crawled a few rocks with it just to use it though. When we head down to South Dakota over 4th of july I will be using it some. To be fair though the rocks where we were at in Wy are sand stone and tend to move/break, so a bit of wheel speed helps. Down in SD the traction is better as long as its not wet. Overall I am really happy with it though. The low in just rear wheel drive is nice to cruise around when 4x4 isn't needed. Am very happy with the rest of my gear choices. Might use the low-low more when I jump to bigger tires, hopefully next winter. Would definitely go this route again over the standard 203/205. IMO.
 
Here are a few pics from Memorial Day when I was down at SMORR in Missouri. Great Place, very much worth going to. Doubler worked great, front digs are sweet and the rear ball valve/line lock is very handy. The last one is of my little boy charming the ladies while I was losing on Double Whammy, dam water.

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Looks awesome. I'm not too far from that place and I'm wanting to go there. I would love to see more pics if you got them.
 
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