crew cabs

[blazin_blazer]

i thought about this also

just found this pic over on dieselplace.com aparently a guy up in alaska built this truck. Its a crew cab on a lwb frame.

Remington

put a cc on a lwb frame and use a swb bed and cut the front off, it would look better
thats a lwb bed thats been shortened, the swb has less 1/4 behind the rear wheel, which would make it shorter, but i got to thinking i want the cc for the wheelbase, so i decided against it , i want a cc with a 8' bed!

don't know why but longer wheel base seems to do better in the mud and thats all i do is mud ride.

 

[nvrenuf]

this is my desktop....i want 1 just like it, but they are so hard to find around here...if you ever get ready to sell this 1 please let me know 1st.

Thanks! Be watching the for sale forum after the first of the year, I'm thinking seriously about selling it.

 

[chevy wrangler]

noooooo why???

and blazin, how much would i have to cut a shortbed??

 

[blazin_blazer]

i'll keep my eye on it...if you would email me [email protected]

put crewcab in subject line so i'll know its safe to open....i usually don't open mail from people i don't know...i'd appreciate it thanks!!

 

[mikey_d05]

Thanks! Be watching the for sale forum after the first of the year, I'm thinking seriously about selling it.

What are you thinking about asking for it?

 

[DavidB]

the land yacht. Its on 44s now

Why's it always stuck?

 

[DavidB]

I have two crewcabs. The one in my sig and one that's just a cab, bed, and frame. I'd sell it in a second.

I'd put a CC on a longbed frame and build a stubby flatbed. Or this.

There's a ton more info in a couple other threads. MTMike's and one of mine I think.

 

[blazin_blazer]

i'm not sure with the crew cab...i did the truck cab on a blazer frame and i think it was about 11'' i had to cut off and i didn't study it as well as i should have...because my cut fell right dead in the middle of my gas filler door, so i had to fill half of that hole....
if i would have thought about it alittle bit i could have laid my cuts out where i took the whole gas door out and saved the trouble of filling half of the gas door, but it wasn't to hard i just used the gas door and cut it and welded it in and did a thin coat of body filler...it looked different than others i had seen so i broke out my tape measure and measured frome the hole in the lip of the wheelwell that holds the trim around fender(the 1 on the top in the center is actually the real center of the wheelwell)...thats when i realized that a long wb is longer behind the rear wheel than a swb.

so i found a swb bed and laid out my cuts out right this time to cut on either side of the gas door cut it twice, pulled the middle piece out slide the front wall back and tig welded it down the seem taking my time pulling the sides into align ment and finished it out with out any filler....i was full of myself...hehe

when i put the swb bed on the blazer frame it was again @ 8'' shorter behind the rear wheel and looked awesome...every1 said it looked like a chevy jeep scrambler...had a 5' bed with lwb bed and about 4'2'' bed with the short wheel base bed.

thinking about doing it again and putting my blazer on a 2wd frame, i've come to realize that is 1 pretty rare creature(2wd blazer) and put the truck on my blazer frame.

the best advise i can give is measure then measure then measure again! so you dont wind up with a huge gap between ur cab and bed...better to be to close, so you can trim alittle more than it is to add a inch or so.

 

[BulldogK5]

Thanks! Be watching the for sale forum after the first of the year, I'm thinking seriously about selling it.

SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trying to see about selling the Dodge for this. The wife said she rather liked it when we met you a few weeks ago.

Hijack over. Sorry.

 

[nvrenuf]

noooooo why???

In addition to my wifes Jeep and my K5 project, I've got a newer daily driver Honda and the CC (which sits most of the time) so I'm thinking of consolidating. I'm going to sell the CC and Honda so I can get me one new vehicle that'll do it all - daily drive, pull and family travel. The decision to sell it really hurts because I love this truck but ultimately I'm afraid it'll just sit, rot and become one of those trucks people look at and say "I bet that used to be really nice" - I just don't want that.

As far as the price, I haven't quite made up my mind yet. I'm sure some will think it's too much but I've already put a fair amount into it and I still am (I just installed a perfect dash pad in it a couple of weeks ago). Probably somewhere close to (but less than) the red dually that was sold here a while ago.

Anyway... sorry if I rambled or hijacked...

 

[chevy wrangler]

wow now i really want one, everybody is selling theres

 

[CrewCab59]

I have two crewcabs. The one in my sig and one that's just a cab, bed, and frame. I'd sell it in a second.

I'd put a CC on a longbed frame and build a stubby flatbed. Or this.

There's a ton more info in a couple other threads. MTMike's and one of mine I think.

What a combo a CC with a step bed !!

 

[blazin_blazer]

if ur going to sell it nvrenuf, any chance of talking my ole lady into it being my christmas present? like sell it before christmas?

 

[nvrenuf]

if ur going to sell it nvrenuf, any chance of talking my ole lady into it being my christmas present? like sell it before christmas?

Let me think on it, I've got a few nic-nacs to fix on it before I sell it and it's just a busy time right now.

 

[blazin_blazer]

can you give me some spec on it is it a real 91 or have you put the front cap on it? and how many miles? man ur in AL thats not all that far to go get it either. i think that would get a retore job and stay out of the pits for the most part!

 

[K5er4Life]

ok Ill bite......

This is what my baby has come to, had a small engine fire and I am barely getting around to lining everything back out again. As soon as Im done with that its getting a paint job, brown and blue just isnt that appealing. Im thinking red would look way cool. Its posts like these that made me want a crew cab for many years, I looked and looked and looked then ran across this one as a 100 percent stock dually with 80K on the clock. It was a great price and couldnt pass it up.

 

[K5er4Life]

In case anyones curious thats a 4" on 37" hummer rims and tires.

 

[Ten_Bucks]

ok Ill bite......

This is what my baby has come to, had a small engine fire and I am barely getting around to lining everything back out again. As soon as Im done with that its getting a paint job, brown and blue just isnt that appealing. Im thinking red would look way cool. Its posts like these that made me want a crew cab for many years, I looked and looked and looked then ran across this one as a 100 percent stock dually with 80K on the clock. It was a great price and couldnt pass it up.

If you don't mind me asking, what made you decide to convert it to a SRW?

Scott

 

[DavidB]

Hijack

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191482

I'll be over there in Las Cruces to wheel with SCOOBYDANN in February I hope. Might could figure out a way to bring it. I bought it in Phoenix, would be going right back the other way, haha.

 

[nvrenuf]

can you give me some spec on it is it a real 91 or have you put the front cap on it? and how many miles? man ur in AL thats not all that far to go get it either. i think that would get a retore job and stay out of the pits for the most part!

This one is a real deal 91, the body is all original with the exception of fixing dings and such before repaint. Here is what it looked like when I bought it -

It's a former US Air Force truck that I flew to Pheonix Az to buy and drove home. I bought it from the car lot that got it from the gov't but I think CarFax shows me as the second owner (1st = govt).

Specs -
* stock tbi 350 (169k miles), 4L80e (rebuilt 2yrs / ~15k miles ago),np205
* D60 front w/ Track Lock & 4.56's (originally open w/ 4.10's)
* 14 bolt w/ Detroit & 4.56's (originally open w/ 4.10's)
* 6" Rugged Trail lift (front springs / rr blocks)
* 35" BFG's w/ 50% tread & 16.5x12 Weld wheels
* I added OE rear dually sway bar and hitch
* During repaint in '03 I replaced all of the door glass weatherstrippings and emblems w/OE parts, replaced marker and taillamps with LMC repros and aftermarket chrome rear bumper.

** I will be removing the tool box and Spicer locking hubs prior to sale.