budget beater - . . . HOLMES 220 single line boom wrecker install starting ..

[sweetk30]

What's the significance of the football game of X' s and O's?

super nasty rust spots i was trying to avoid . just the left rail . and it weighed a bit less than the right side chunk . have to get the scale out and see.

 

[obijuank5]

Makes sense now. Always wanted to take a nice 2wd and swap to 4x4 the way gm did.

 

[sweetk30]

so I have this sitting on my work bench doing NOTHING but collecting dust .

should I KISS = keep it simple stupid . . . . or add this behind the th400 trans . ? ? ?

 

[TreeFarm]

so I have this sitting on my work bench doing NOTHING but collecting dust .

should I KISS = keep it simple stupid . . . . or add this behind the th400 trans . ? ? ?

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That looks simple to me. No electronics or anything like that. Just some levers and gears

 

[obijuank5]

That looks simple to me. No electronics or anything like that. Just some leavers and gears

Absolutely simple. Gears and levers and bearings. What could go wrong?

 

[brokenparts]

yup, run it.

 

[LNielson]

Sweet Doubler, shameful to leave it on the shelf when you have a project begging for it.

 

[LNielson]

Nice frame splice, don't think i've ever seen someone turn a crew into a standard cab before. You do good work.

 

[imiceman44]

so I have this sitting on my work bench doing NOTHING but collecting dust .

should I KISS = keep it simple stupid . . . . or add this behind the th400 trans . ? ? ?

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Well budget means don't buy anything if you can use what you have laying around...

 

[sweetk30]

Well budget means don't buy anything if you can use what you have laying around...

true that . and current drive shaft to short so have to rework it anyway .

 

[sweetk30]

fat butt on the old girl . . . . na just used it to roll it out of the shop for the day .
reason the springs are at 50" center to center is its a dana 70 from a 79 g30 motor home. had 40k miles 4.10 open diff.

 

[sweetk30]

end of the road for this old girl today . the time had come to part this out and use the parts to make the budget beater a 4x4 from its 2wd first half of its life .

not using frame / transfer case / exhaust / flatbed / sheet metal . the rest will go in the frame i just made std cab length and then when rolling and loaded it will be covered with the body of the 2wd .

 

[6872xtc]

I didn't expect that!!! I didn't know that truck was getting too bad to go on.

 

[sweetk30]

look at rear of frame in side shot pic before torn apart . the rear hanger flip bracket is were the factory bump stop would be . few years ago i took 35-40 inch off the back cause it was shot .

now the body is shot in a few key places . she had a newish body put on her around 12 years ago . frame is a 79 k30 c&c truck .

 

[6872xtc]

Sure wish that I could have sent you the frame from my old '79 K30 3 years ago, instead of sending it to the crusher. It would have been better to use in a salt country than whatever it got turned into.

 

[sweetk30]

taking 33" out of the extra crew cab frame removed the bad spot and got me a clean frame for this now.

so thanks and wish i could stock pile a few frames . but is what it is . if i finish all my trucks i should be good till i cant drive anymore.

and ebay has there discount tire sale again . ends 3/19/18 8am . buy $400 or more and get instant $100 off . can use promo code 2x .

so i just pulled the trigger on 4 of these bad boys . 255/85/16 = 33.30" tall. bfg mud terrain km2 $804.00 shipped to my door.

there going to look SEXY AS HELL on stock rims and hub caps .

 

[sweetk30]

felt crappy all day yesterday so i didnt do anything after work .

but today i feelt a bit better so i made the frame a bit more normal by adding a few items.

i just hope my pinion angle wont be to hard to fix .

 

[acm]

...there should be an "adapter" for that.
no problem.

 

[sweetk30]

drop box transfer case and feed it backwards if i recall .

 

[Bent77]

Double chain drive


So you moved shifts and got sick? Allergic to sunlight?