I'm the excited new owner of 54" Boggers!

[mountainexplorer]

Here's some pictures of them now in my posession after selling a bunch of stuff to come up with alot of money to afford them. They were the 3rd set released from Interco when they first came out. They lived for 2 years on a big S-10... but soon going under my Big Crew Cab project since the 44's are just too small nowadays.

That's a tiny 44" Gumbo Mudder next to the 54" Bogger.

 

[BlackBourbon]

Holy crap. Those things are big. Now get off the computer and put'em on the CC!

 

[mountainexplorer]

They're huge and expensive! Surprisingly not has heavy to pick up as you'd think for they're size though.

The 2.5 Ton Rockwells are sitting there, tires and rims are there, and the truck. But still a long ways to go. My next step financially is to raise the money necessary to buy the internal parts to build a cheap 505 Big Block as a temporary motor until I'm rich enough for something like a 572. I already have a 4-bolt main 454 block to bore to .100 over, and a Lunati .722 lift solid roller cam... just need the stroker crank, pistons, rods, pushrods, steel roller rockers, to have the heads ported, polished and built with .225 intake valves, and whatever else I need including a clutch that will handle it.

It will run a 2wd SM465 4spd, to a divorced Dodge NP205 mounted in the center so both front/rear drivelines are the same length, and I'll use the existing 12" suspension lift and 2.5 Ton Rockwells. Need to figure out brakes and hydraulic steering though too.

 

[OffRoad]

cool beans. nice crew cab tow rig.

 

[dfl701]

All I have to say is woooowwwww LOL

 

[mountainexplorer]

Both the '78 Crew Cab tow rig in the pictures and my '83 Crew cab are being sold to pay for the 505 motor build.

And I had to sell the 4.56 dana 60 and 14-bolt out of my '81 Crew Cab to get half the money to pay for these 54" Boggers. Looks like all the other crew cabs are being sacrificed for the Big one being resurrected.

But my blue Crew Cab I sold my 4.56 axles out of will get replaced with 3.73 axles and is getting a '93 12-valve Cummins and NV4500/205 to be my main tow rig again since I tore it apart 2 years ago.

 

[OffRoad]

shame to sell all those crew cabs. oh well, you've got some sweet big tires.

 

[mountainexplorer]

I didn't plan on keeping the '78 or '83 anyways, they were going to be sold eventually. My other '81 is now sitting on the ground but will go back together again. In the long run there will be two permanent ones I keep, the "Little Crew Cab" tow rig with the Cummins motor on 35" tires and the "Big Crew Cab" with the 54" Boggers.

 

[mountainexplorer]

Video of the rig the 54's came off of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vniurVk71w