Bobbing a K5, building a back wall for the cab.

[DaveCowley]

After my trip to Moab last weekend I decided it is time to do away with some more sheet metal. Since my bed is already bedlined and the truck needs to be re bedlined. I think what I will go ahead and do is build a back wall for my cab. I will make it bolt on so in the good weather it will be open air. I am going to use the stock tank and move it up almost even with the wheel wells, a little forward. Use the center seam on the tank to support it and sink it into the bed. Lastly cut about 1 to 1.5 feet out of the back of my Jimmy to slide the taillights forward then cut the frame right behind the shackle flip. Build a new rear bumper and that should save some unnecessary weight and body damage. Does anyone have any picks of something similar, I want to keep it street legal.

Dave Cowley

 

[laketex]

Check my webshots in my sig. All you can get is 12.5" before the shackle.

 

[Michael]

LT....when are you gonna use your real website?

Dunns

 

[laketex]

soon as i figure out how to use it. I'm back on a 24.4 modem at home so thats out, and I'm so damn busy at work for the time being....but eventually! You should see the new red k5. it's pretty

 

[Michael]

How 'bout pics?

 

[laketex]

didn't i send you one?

 

[DaveCowley]

Hey both of you alls pics look good, how come you didn't section it and use the stock taillights? Just curious. That is what I think I will do, where did you put the tank? Does it help out on the trail?

Thanks
Dave Cowley

 

[bigjbear]

guessing-he broke as many stock ones as I did. Mine is not bobbed but I used the same tail lights.

 

[LKJR]

fabbing a plate to go on the back is a lot easier than trying to section the old lights back in.

he had an aluminum fuel cell in the back..

 

[LKJR]

that whole truck is available cheap still (I think), you just have to to to Il to get it. (minus the axles and engine of course) but the bob is done for you and the cage is included.

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=partsforsale&Number=668134&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=partsforsale&Number=636159&page=4&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

 

[Pure Insanity]

This rig is now parted out /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif but heres another example. MAD MAX He has a webshots album too showing what and how he did it, but I dont have a link to it.

There was another I remember seeing fairly recently that was bobbed WAY down. He had the tail lites on the back of the cab, and a flat bed.