POLL: What should I do?

[laketex]

Ok, I've just moved back to Texas, bought my dream house, and been working on fixing it up the way I want it. My Blazer got pretty smashed up on the last Badlands run in Indiana and I put it on the back burner for a while after my grandpa gave me his Olds for a DD. I put it back on the road to pick up some bushes from the local nursery and damn, I realized how much I missed it. So I pulled the top and doors off and have been driving it the last week despite having the elec fan burn out...it's fine if I keep forward progress with the 4 core radiator. So with new house payments, and a limited budget, what should I do?

Probs:

My front clip is toast
My body is heavily dented with a ton of midwest rust
I have no bumpers, sliders, cage.

Resources:
I have access to a tubing bender.
I have 120' of 1.75" tubing.
I have a line on a new rust free/dent free front clip and body for $400
I have a 1" body lift to replace the 3" I have now.

The goal:
I want a daily driver, light trail truck (3's and under), work truck, commuter, fishing and hunting rig.

What should I do?

 

[Emmettology 101]

Where's the "bacon" option? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Ooppss. Wrong board! LOL

I chose #2.... Get the new body, put it on, worry about the rest over time! Whats Michelle think?

 

[tRustyK5]

I picked number one. You already have the tube so when you do the body swap thing you can do a cage before any interior goes back in. You have a DD so you can also afford to take your time and do it right the first time IMO. It takes longer, but there is greater satisfaction in not half-assing something.

As for the Dan option...he made his bed let him lie in it. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Rene

 

[laketex]

Michelle is glad that we still have a truck for hauling stuff. She likes trailriding too, but she's like me, she doesn't like the super hard obstacles that take all day to do one little section. I want my truck set up to cater to that type of trail riding, camping, hunting, ect.

Rene, I too hate half assed things. Btw, SAWEET cage!

 

[tRustyK5]

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Michelle is glad that we still have a truck for hauling stuff. She likes trailriding too, but she's like me, she doesn't like the super hard obstacles that take all day to do one little section. I want my truck set up to cater to that type of trail riding, camping, hunting, ect.

Rene, I too hate half assed things. Btw, SAWEET cage!

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Thanks Bryan! I'm basically trying to set my truck up the same way, although I do enjoy some of the harder trails. I'm not into spending 10 hours to go 1/2 a mile either.

Rene

 

[Z3PR]

Get rid of the body all together and build a cage (Large one, big enough too protect the whole family) If I lived down south, that's what I'd look into doing.