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Blazooki

Blazooki

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Shrunken Ned...

Ok ladies and germs, This is my official build thread. I hesitated on doing one for fear of jinxing myself and never getting my rig done. but whatever here we go. If you were at BB this year I handed you your T-shirt.

First some history and a giant wall of text. My brother (kgblazerfive) and I have been wheeling off and on since we were in our teens. I've built a few rigs, sold them for various reasons.

I bought the end all DD/trail rig in 2008 (85 GMC Jimmy, for pics see my blog I never update) took it to BB09. (my very first BB) blew the tranny and tore off a shock mount the first day in Hells Revenge. Parked it on the trailer. Also blew up my tow vehicle that year half way there and ended up buying a new truck on the road in order to make it to BB. (I figure BB09 cost me around 30k). I won the hard luck award and MrK5 gave me a really nice water bottle. (thx Scott) which made everything better. :rolleyes:. MiniWally offered me a seat in his buggy for the rest of the bash and that was awesome. (thx Brandon)

Came home, put the jimmy in the back shop, saw some rust on the rockers one day and promptly torn the whole truck apart down to the frame. It sat like that for like for 4 years. While I did other stuff.

I have this neighbor across the street, he has a 68 impala sitting in his garage "getting restored". He put in there when they moved in like 12 years ago. He hasn't touched the thing in 12 years. I see it everytime he goes to work. I realized that was me and I needed to change.

Wheeling the Jimmy and spending time in other peoples rigs as a passenger taught me what I wanted in a wheeler and what I didn't. I also realized that I was not the guy I was in my twenties. I could not wrench all night on my crap and get up for work like it was nothing. Nor did I really want to. I needed to embrace the farm. So that's what I decided I would do...farm out the big stuff I didn't have the tools or talents to do right, get over the big hurdles with help and then the little things would be much easier.

Now I've cheated hard at this build thread. I took a lot of pictures and just held on to them. So a lot of this stuff might seem like I'm moving fast when I'm not.

First pic is a mandatory old school 80s wheeling pic. circa 1984-85. Yours truly by the front tire. We had pizza delivered which is sitting on the hood of my 79 Toyota.

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Here's my son helping me clean the Jimmy frame. The plan at first was to build a S10 truggy. I had an 84 cab I picked up for 200$

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The Jimmy had a 6.2 with a banks it. I loved it but I wanted a 350. I traded the 6.2 setup to blazinzuk . Was looking on Craigslist one day and this showed up.

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He wanted 1k for Just the frame and cab...it was built as some monster mud truck..the guy bought for parts...the frame and cab were done really well...but the transfer case truss thing was like they gave a monkey a welder a said "planet of the apes". The front 4 links were like 7 feet long. I told him I'd have to cut all that crap off and offered him $500..We settled on $550 and I towed it home.

I cut the jimmy frame in half and carted it outa my shop after pulling off everything I wanted to keep. Then I called "Jerry the scraper" who speaks no English, works nights a Taco Bell and hauls scrap by day. Jerry took my entire old jimmy body, the frame, cage and everything else (including an old hot water heater) and fit it all into the back of his F250 long bed in one trip. I was amazed. Moses parting the red sea was nothing compared to how much junk Jerry fit in that truck.
 
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Talked to my go to fab guy and he was booked up until christmas . Looked around and found a fab shop in Kelso WA. Talked to Aaron and towed my junk up there. Aaron started working on it...

First...off with the monkey bars

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So then after much thought.. I decided on a 3 three link front and a 4 link rear. Chassis Unlimited had a 20% off sale with free shipping for July 4th...it was like a no brainer. I even bought my DoM link tube from them. Since it was free shipping...Brown Santa was not happy..pretty sure I made the naughty list. I got their rear truss and an Artec front full hydro mount.

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Gonna hijack my own thread for a sec...if anyone's on the fence about DIY4x4 s rear end jack attachment I would highly recommend it .

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On the front we decided to swap sides on the top link and run it near the pumkin. This intailed building a truss for the front. The plan is too run the exhaust down the drivers side. With the clocked 205 doubler I didnt have any room for exhaust in the factory frame on the passenger side. This frame is 28 inches wide the whole length.

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Here it sits at full bump. 38 inch tires (for the time being, going 42 inch pit bulls). 132 inch wheel base...the motor, tranny and doubler are going in this week and then it gets finish welded.

I decided to go with ORIs. 16 inch black. They will be here monday. It should be a full roller by next weekend.

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Found some s10 conversion headers on Craigslist for $50. Wrapped them with some header wrap

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yeah its really deceptive..it doesn't look that long in person either. the whole rig is not much longer than 132 inches..Im guessing that's why
 
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