Chop or swap?

[jekquistk5]

Need opinions on what direction I should head in.

right now the truck is a long bed 3/4 ton, and its too long for tight trails. So I need to either chop the rear off or swap the cab onto a blazer frame that I already have. Plan is to go to coils fronts with 4 link and 64's in the rear and finally swap the 60 and 14 in. Leaning more towards the blazer frame so I can still somewhat have a running truck while I engineer and build the suspension.

thoughts?

 

[79rustyk10]

Ive kinda been tossing around the same idea's seeing that I have a longbox, and they are excessively long and dont turn all that well.

 

[obijuan]

keep the frame you got now just chop the sumbitch.

 

[Adventurous 4x4]

Link the rear first and put some 52's up front. Use either frame and cut them down. That's my $.02 worth.

 

[Stomis]

Swapping frames would be a serious waste of time and a downgrade in strength. The blazer frame is a 1/2 ton rated frame while the 3/4 ton is a **** hair thicker I believe is the difference.

Either way its a serious time sink to swap everything over to a different frame when you have a perfectly good one you could cut down already.

 

[1BEATK5]

cut the frame down on the 3/4. then make a short flatbed for a tool box and fuel tank.

 

[76zimmer]

Longbeds are way cool, but needs on the trail come first for many.
I voted to chop, because if your truck is already fairly sound, pulling the box, and chopping would be easier than redoing another frame to drop your cab onto.

 

[jekquistk5]

maybe picking up a protools bender tomorrow as long as the dude calls me back I see a truggy in my near future

 

[dirtygoat]

Another vote on keeping the 3/4 ton... Link the rear and truggy it...