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Modification you would "NEVER" do again...
- Thread starter Metal Twister
- Start date
Try raising kids........as a single dad.Try being married.
nad
1/2 ton status
Try raising kids........as a single dad.
Haha, no thanks. I've got enough going on just living with my g/f. I'll take a rain check on the marriage and kids for, well.... awhile....
I regret using the stock 6.5 turbo setup and getting rid of my WORKING a/c 
. Should of just run the banks setup, but I was younger and dumber then 
. Should of just run the banks setup, but I was younger and dumber then 
COCHEV
1/2 ton status
Try being married.
Sold my first ever k5 to pay for my honeymoon. should have known right then the whole thing was doomed. Dooooooooooomed!
Now I just send her money every month....
jamcar
Registered Member
super swampers were a waste of money. they are to loud and wear aout way too fast. but they do have their place, just not on my rig
79bonanza
1/2 ton status
try being in college with no job and odd jobs on the weekend, and housing rent due lol, money is so tight ive began selling parts off my runnign truck that arent really needed lol
dirtygoat
1/2 ton status
im gonna get flamed for this but I wish I would have started with a Heep or Toyota. I dont have any fab skills or time to learn right now, and no one to help me out. I also dont have the money to fab or buy the tools to fab. So bolt on stuff would have been nice. Or like has been stated, already built.
I hate to tell ya this but to build much beyond a typical full size truck with all bolt on stuff, one tons a bolt on shackle flip and bolt on front springs or bolt on 52" swap. You still need to have fab skills. The best lift out there for Toys requires a ton of welding moving all the spring perches. The best lifts out there for Jeeps usually require some sort of welding and fabbing.
Just sayin depending on the level you want to get too every rig out there requires some sort of fabbing.
ciffer
1/2 ton status
buying a vehicle I care about. driving and tinkering with old junk is way more fun when you don't care about the seats or paint.
gotblazers
1/2 ton status
this thread really brought me down :/ although it has inspired me to build EVERYTHING for my rig that i feasibly can.
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bronc3buster842001
1/2 ton status
I've built everything on my S10 Blazer myself. Only have a sawzall, an angle grinder, a big 1/2 drill, and a little 110 Lincoln mig welder. So building stuff is easy, just have to set your mind to it. my project is going on 4 years now.
lak2004
1/2 ton status
well damn, i guess i better get to building. where to start though?
I'm going on 2 years on mine and its somewhat complete although stage 2 is now in the works. Ditching the long bed going back to a blazer frame, 52's in the front 64's in the rear, doubler, and full 1 ton. Half the fun of this hobby is the long nights/days spent wrenching on em. And when you do get to go out the satisfaction that YOU built it not anyone else. But I agree with you I started with a coffin welder, and angle grinder as well. The more tools you have the more you can build efficiently.
Don't let it bring you down. While I would have started building a buggy, I still would have modified my blazer. My next blazer will hopefully be a slightly warmed over small block with about 4" of lift cut fenders (well massaged fenders) 38s one tons eventually. 465/205 and make it nice. Like bedline the inside then carpet over it. Nice seats, nice dash, nice paint. Not something the normal person would take out on the trails. I will but I don't think most of us here are "normal"
Your blaze your goals. Its way easier when you don't have alot of money to modify what you have. I have a buddy who is still tweaking on his its all tubed out and stuff like mine, he hated it for a while, but its coming back into something he likes.
It doesn't matter how you modify you would probably change something. All that really matters is the fact you are modifying
Metal Twister
1/2 ton status
Well said
dirtygoat
1/2 ton status
I built mine over the course of a year... When it went under the knife it was a typical, 4" off the shelf lift, d44 w/ truetrac, 12b w/ lockright, 36" TSLs and a minimal cage...
I pulled it into my brother's garage and started cutting... Used a HF bender, borrowed welder, grinder, saw-z-all, notcher in a borrowed garage...
I had a pretty good game plan going in after watching everyone's rigs on the trail... Saw what worked and what didn't... I wanted to build as much of it as I could... Fabbing is not for everyone, but I like to build stuff...
It can get overwhelming, you have to make a list of tasks and follow each one through... When you start on the next task, break it down on another list into steps and follow that through... Before you know it, you'll turn to look at your rig and it's almost ready for a shake down run... That also helps with staying excited about working on it... It feels really good to check something off and get started on the next thing...
I've been putting together a list for the bus build now... I was starting to aimlessly wander, working on this for a bit them jumping to something else... I realized that I have to get on task and see each thing through before jumping into the next task...
It gets real easy to jump from one thing to another and leave the crappy work that sucks to do until later... Before you know it everything just has the sucky parts left to build and you get discouraged...
4xcrazy
3/4 ton status
so far the worst mod i have done to my Burb, was the 10 bolt Gov-Loc in the front diff deal, just did not work the way i had hoped it would.
Took it out, installed a Loc-Rite locker and been awesome ever since.
Took it out, installed a Loc-Rite locker and been awesome ever since.
i put the top back on once.
