shovelbill80
1/2 ton status
wow.....very cool indeed
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Horton, driveshaft opinions wanted
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more give me more!!
magik235
Still Alive
I am eagerly waiting for pictures of the narrow front. I am thinking about how I want to do mine.
offroadblazer764x4
1/2 ton status
kool stuff
When I get Horton home I will take some pics of it. He is wintering in my buddys garage.
When we narrowed the front end it was pretty much a, hey we should narrow the front, kind of moment. Did it in an afternoon. Really pretty simple.
I have more pics I will put up tomorrow
Thanks for the kind words guys
To put this whole story together you have to know some background on what I was driving at the time that we were putting this truck together.
I had bought a 73 blazer and started modifying it right away.
Put 35s on it the day I bought it, with no lift
Within 3 months I had found a set of 3/4 ton axles and some free springs from a guy. Springs were Dodge springs all rears 5.5" super lift springs from a 95 Dodge half ton. So I used those and ended up with about 9" of lift or so. Put 38s on it
It had a rear locker and an open front and I was learning alot about Chevys in general. Had a ton of fun with it like that
Well I ended up doing some mechanical work for a guy and got a set of one tons from him for just the trade work and my old 3/4 tons. Was a good deal cause they were from a CUCV so it still had a rear locker and now I had 4.56s and one tons. Sold my 38s for as much as I had bought them for. Bought some 40" Iroks and put the one tons in
I learned alot about flex and how to get it and what not to do. My Blazer had great flex but some not so happy ride characteristics
I had bought a 73 blazer and started modifying it right away.
Put 35s on it the day I bought it, with no lift
Within 3 months I had found a set of 3/4 ton axles and some free springs from a guy. Springs were Dodge springs all rears 5.5" super lift springs from a 95 Dodge half ton. So I used those and ended up with about 9" of lift or so. Put 38s on it
It had a rear locker and an open front and I was learning alot about Chevys in general. Had a ton of fun with it like that
Well I ended up doing some mechanical work for a guy and got a set of one tons from him for just the trade work and my old 3/4 tons. Was a good deal cause they were from a CUCV so it still had a rear locker and now I had 4.56s and one tons. Sold my 38s for as much as I had bought them for. Bought some 40" Iroks and put the one tons in
I learned alot about flex and how to get it and what not to do. My Blazer had great flex but some not so happy ride characteristics
So with that bit of background we finally got the first phase done and took the truck out to wheel.
We found a couple issues but nothing major. At this point we were going to leave the truck as is and put the bedsides on. Like I said this truck was meant to be driven to and from the trail.
At this point my buddy Pat still owned the truck
We found a couple issues but nothing major. At this point we were going to leave the truck as is and put the bedsides on. Like I said this truck was meant to be driven to and from the trail.
At this point my buddy Pat still owned the truck
The bedsides were kind of interesting and alot of ideas were kicked around to see what we wanted to do with them.
This truck was built to be able to wheel any trail anywhere but still be able to be driven to and from. So some problems existed. Like how do you make the rear of the truck street legal, and still not destroy the bedsides while on the trail. The solution is this
Full width street mode
narrowed trail mode
This truck was built to be able to wheel any trail anywhere but still be able to be driven to and from. So some problems existed. Like how do you make the rear of the truck street legal, and still not destroy the bedsides while on the trail. The solution is this
Full width street mode
narrowed trail mode
The bedsides were kind of interesting and alot of ideas were kicked around to see what we wanted to do with them.
This truck was built to be able to wheel any trail anywhere but still be able to be driven to and from. So some problems existed. Like how do you make the rear of the truck street legal, and still not destroy the bedsides while on the trail. The solution is this
Full width street mode
narrowed trail mode
{Heavy Slavic accent}"Vedy, vedy, intedesting!"
shovelbill80
1/2 ton status
are those hinges mounted on a track or different holes? never seen anything like that before........great work there man.
The narrowing fender design is awesome.
Any more detail / pictures onhow that went tog ether?
Any more detail / pictures onhow that went tog ether?
That wouldn't be the guy with the Blue Blazer on 44's would it? Big guy named Chris with first gen cummins?
Yep he is big into diesel stuff, but he is a freaking wizard with transmissions.
I will see if I can find some detail shots of the bedsides swinging mechanism, it was actually pretty simple.
The bedsides are skinned. So down to a single wall. When we shortened the bedsides we used some 1/8 to back up all the seams as we figured the bed would probably get beat up some.
We basically built a frame off of the frame, welded some cheapo home depot steel hinges to them, then built a frame off the bedside to meet the hinge.
Presto swinging bedsides. Very simple. There are a few problems with this system though. The main one being the corner of the bedside was stronger than the frame. I caught the bedside on a rock and it actually bent the frame we built to swing it on rather than dent the bedside.
The other real problem was to get it too look right, the bedside when swung in actually stuck out just a little. Which is why the afore mentioned problem happened. We figured out a way around this by using a hinge attached to a cam type system but it never found its way on the truck
If I were to do it again I would use much higher quality hinges and do the cam system so that the front of the bed would actually be inside the outside edged of the cab.
I do have to apologize for the lack of pictures of cool stuff. I am trying to find some that we took but I don't have them so getting folks to e mail them to me is proving difficult.
Now I think about taking pics when we were building this truck I really didn't think about it too often.
Cool, small world! I met him awhile back he helped my buddy move from mountain home to Anchorage. we drank copious amounts of liquor at very nasty titty bar!!
Yes that sounds like Chris
He is a cool guy I will have to give him a call see if he remembers you
I'm the guy with the 76 crew cab 4x4 3/4 ton that all the Pirate guys said "they never made"
79bonanza
1/2 ton status
this thing is awsome looking man, i was curious on how many inches did you cut out of your core support to narrow the front.
