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Let's see your K5 progression

Here is my '84 Silverado as I bought it in August of 2002. Prescott (77mudbuddy) took this pic for me about 5 minutes before we started installing the first lift.
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Here it is after the 4 inch ProComp all spring lift, new shocks, and some new 33's.
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It didn't take long for me to wish I had bigger tires, so I found some cheap 35's and sold the 33's. Here I also had removed the front bumper and grill guard.
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I installed a 2 inch body lift hoping to gain some clearance to one day raise the tcase/tranny and possibly the motor, so I could get a flat under-belly. I also removed the rear bumper and cut off the low hanging fenders. I also screwed my tranny pretty good (after running it all day at the Slab at about 4 quarts low on tranny fluid :) so I bought a level 3 700r4 from Bowtie Overdrives.
[pic taken at the Den]
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This is about the time I started getting a bit more serious. I bought a CUCV for the axles. So all at once out went the 1/2 ton axles, and the rear 4 inch springs in favor of a home brew shackle flip and some 56 inch CUCV springs, and the CUCV tailgate got installed on the blazer. The springs went in backwards to push the rear axle back 4 inches. I got some hummer rims and modified them for 4 1/2 inch backspacing and ran the 36 inch hummer tires for a while. I also installed a West Texas Off-Road hydro assist system on top of a new ORD crossover setup. [2nd pic taken at the Slab]
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I found a buyer for the now 1/2 ton CUCV and with the cash I bought myself some new 42 inch TSL's and some 15 inch travel ProComp ES9000 shocks. Russell (txbluethunder) hooked me up with a hand-me-down rear shock mount and I bought a couple F250 shock towers for the front. I couldn't have my sheetmetal making a mess of my new rubber, so out came the sawzall again and off came the excess sheetmetal around the wheel openings. I also took the time during this round of changes to swap out the front 4 inch springs for my stock 52 inch rears pushing the front axle forward 2 inches. I made some new front shackles and moved the shackle mount in the frame to make some massive droop. A new detroit up front and most recently a 35 spline upgrade with some drive flanges to complete the package.
[1st pic taken at Katemcy and rest at the Den in San Antonio]
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Got a start on a cage, using a Smitty-Built 6 point...
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Retired the 400small block and built a high compression 350 running propane. While it was down, I also installed Klune-V/205 combo...

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Stats:
-84K5
-350 10:1 on propane
-700r4 (level 3 from 700r4.com)
-Klune-V (Goliath)
-np205 (twin stick, 32 spline in and out, fixed yoke) 75:1 crawl ratio
-D60 4.56 detroit
-14FF 4.56 detroit
-modified hummer rims (double beadlocks)
-42 inch TSL's
-stock 52 inch rear springs moved up front
-front shackle moved forward in frame and extended to 7.25 inches
-stock 56 inch CUCV pickup springs installed in rear (every other leaf removed)
-home made shackle flip, using rear spring front hanger from 70's k20
-15 inch travel ProComp es9000 shocks at all corners
-crossover steering
-Hydraulic assist (West Texas Off-Road)
 
Started out as a $400 '75 K5 with a 12 bolt/Dana 44 with 3.07 gears, had a knocking large journal 327, TH350, NP203, a 3" body lift and 2" aluminum lift blocks front and rear, and 33s. It had a 350 in it for a short while and some 36's.
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Put 4" front springs and rear blocks in it, a 14-bolt, and Dana 44 with 4.10s, 8274 winch, SM465/NP205, dual exhaust I kept from another blazer, and interior out of a free parts Blazer, and some 35" BFG Mud Terrains; and a Wal-Mart orange and black rattlecan paint job, I put a used SB400 in it which lasted less than an hour, then a 350 that lasted a couple weeks, then another smoking 350 that lasted a few months.
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Put in a 454 and 3" Dual flowmaster exhaust, and a 14-bolt with a Detroit locker. Then added 35" Swamper SX's.
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That 454 lasted 5 months... put another 454 in it and a different 465/205, and a Dana 60 front.

Then that 454 started smoking, and I took it out and sold the motor, traded off the 465/205, and now it's apart to be put back together next year differently for a mud race rig with a small journal 327, TH350/205, 14-bolt rear and Dan 44 with 4.56s and no winch.
 
10/3/04 bought as a shell, no motor, no tranny, no tcase. Stock on 33s. Was just going to part it out. Ended up making a couple of deals and built it up.
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1/11/05 Installed 6" lift springs up front, shackle flip in back with 6 inch shackle, 36's, 14bff, d44, 350/th400/208. This is it out of the garage for the first time, flat 36s and all.
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5/1/05 sold the 36s, bought some 38.5s, recentered some H1s. Also added an 8274 winch.
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11/25/05 Got tired of the 44 breaking all the time, installed d60, crossover, highsteer, hydro assist. The stock 350 wasnt cutting it so I tossed in a TBI 454. Made some tube doors. Narrowed the front 15". Installed 52s on the front.
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Current plans are for 63s in the rear, detroit up front, and a cage. But all the above was done in 13 months. :eek1:
 
Interceptor, do you have any more pictures of your rig? Specifically the cage? And it says you have 6" lift and 39.5's? Is that what is in the last few pictures?

Thanks- Awesome rig
 
84gmcjimmy said:
Interceptor, do you have any more pictures of your rig? Specifically the cage? And it says you have 6" lift and 39.5's? Is that what is in the last few pictures?

Thanks- Awesome rig
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I just sent him a PM asking him the same thing.
 
Still in it's infancy. I started working on it several years before I found CK5 in 2004 so a modified 4x4 was not in my plans. Put a lot of money into restoration so I'm protective of the sheet metal. I've got a lot of upgrade parts collected over the last year waiting to be installed and a locker on the way. All I have are pics of pics so bear with me.

1. What I bought in 2000
2. Bodywork in progress 2001
3. Newly restored stock truck on 31's 2003
4. CK5 found late 2004
5. 33's, Warn bumper, D-rings, bucket seats, solid shaft 203 for 2005
6. Plans for 2006 include 465/205, lockers, alloy shafts, 14 bolt, twin stick, 39.5's and 4 or 6 inch lift.
 
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Here is my 75 K5. Started out all stock with a blown 350. added some used 33's with the still stock suspension.

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I drove it this way for a year or so.. Then a few months back I got a 4" lift kit and added a echobit shackle flip for the rear...

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Back in July I added 35" Dunlop Mud rovers...This is about the level I want it at.

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Now I need gears to match the tires. Complete the cage for the inside and adding some 2x3 tube rock sliders to replace the rusted rockers. Pretty mild compared to some of the nuts around here, but right where I want it.
 
84gmcjimmy said:
Interceptor, do you have any more pictures of your rig? Specifically the cage? And it says you have 6" lift and 39.5's? Is that what is in the last few pictures?

Thanks- Awesome rig
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Thats the Boss's old cage:D
 
85mudblazin said:
Thats the Boss's old cage:D
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Makes sense now seeing as how the cage itself looked a little familiar and the rig that its now residing in is in Colorado. Still, I'd like to see some close up shots of how they did the through the dash work.
 
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