hawkeye649
1/2 ton status
Those flaps are going back on some day. I actually have 4 of them, plan to flap the fronts too.
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went wheelin this week pics
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hawkeye649
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Rene. We really don't have anywhere around here where you can beat a truck like a rented mule. I went out with some hick I met at work to his best spot and even with just stock springs and 35's I conqired everything in 2x4 with ease. Some day I want it to be a freak, a purdy capable truck. But sometimes I don't know what I want.
87BrnRsd
1/2 ton status
Did you steal my truck and take the lift off?
Sweet looking truck by the way....
-Harrison
Sweet looking truck by the way....-Harrison
hawkeye649
1/2 ton status
I think the black truck looks cleaner than mine ever did. When I bought my truck the tail pan was not nice lookin, and after like 2 days I notice that the seat belt well there was rotten through. I had looked from the outside and deemed it rusty but solid, guess if I ever buy another truck I'll use a screw driver rather than my eyes. The rust was just stuck to the carpet, so it looked like metal. Then I noticed some bubbles on the rockers the first time I gave it a good wash. I thought my rust bucket of a truck had shown me where to look, and it had. This one has shown me what to look for for the hidden cancer. BTW guys, there was about 1 to 1/2 years between the first picture with the running boards and the rot repair. It wasn't like an uber clean lookin blazer went from clean to pure rot by taking the carpet up.
fabjunkie
1/2 ton status
Nice clean truck man! Where in Houston was that?
JohnDeere
1/2 ton status
I live in Humble it just shy of houston about 20min. north of it on 59. This summer im going to try and get a group to go to Spring Creek
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I have to agree with most here. That truck is too clean like it is to wheel,
Sheetmetal gang or not. Save it and get another one that's already built for wheelin but save that truck!
No matter how hard you try, it will never be the same if you wheel it.
I'd vote for that truck, like it is for GMOTM!
Sheetmetal gang or not. Save it and get another one that's already built for wheelin but save that truck!
No matter how hard you try, it will never be the same if you wheel it.
I'd vote for that truck, like it is for GMOTM!
87BrnRsd
1/2 ton status
I agree. I got what most consider to be a "nice" truck. I wheel it to hell and back, though, it would be in much better shape, had I not wheeled it. I vote, keep that rig stock, and dump 1/2 of the money you would of into the nice one, and make the "beater one", a really, really capable rig....Storm Trooper said:
-Harrison
And one more vote for no wheeling. Put a little lift on it for style's sake but don't even come anywhere near close to a rock. We bought Wimpy already a dented mess so we didn't really care. Besides that's why we bought the beast anyways.
By a beater and flog that one.
Yea I know money doesn't grow on trees.
By a beater and flog that one.
Yea I know money doesn't grow on trees.
txfiremank5
1/2 ton status
I think it's a tough choice either way.
My K5 is every bit as clean as JD's and it's all original. I could have bought a beater, to fix up.. but then there is often a ton of things that have to be done first. More often than not the wries have been jacked with so much that you don't know where one is running to, and where another is coming from. The engine etc has been tinkered with so much that it takes an act of congress to make it run right... not to mention rust in places that you don't want it (like anyone wants it anywhere) and a bunch of other problems to sort through, just to get it up to snuff.
I wrestled with the idea of all that. In the end I bought this K5 so I could just start buying the stuff I wanted to build it up with. I wanted it to be just as reliable out on the road as a new vehicle, but serve my wheelin' needs too. I didn't want to spend a ton of time and money getting a beater up to that point.
It's a double edged sword. I'd love to keep my K5 super clean and DD it, but I need my truck, and don't need a fourth vehicle to add to the list. So I'll build up the K5, and wheel it, and hopefully keep the body out of the rocks etc as much as I can. I don't have anything to prove out on a trail, so if an obstical guarantees severe body damage, I'll just avoid it. Lots of armor and careful drivin' will hopefully let me have fun without too much sufferage on the K5's part.
If something changes, then I'll adjust to the situation.
My K5 is every bit as clean as JD's and it's all original. I could have bought a beater, to fix up.. but then there is often a ton of things that have to be done first. More often than not the wries have been jacked with so much that you don't know where one is running to, and where another is coming from. The engine etc has been tinkered with so much that it takes an act of congress to make it run right... not to mention rust in places that you don't want it (like anyone wants it anywhere) and a bunch of other problems to sort through, just to get it up to snuff.
I wrestled with the idea of all that. In the end I bought this K5 so I could just start buying the stuff I wanted to build it up with. I wanted it to be just as reliable out on the road as a new vehicle, but serve my wheelin' needs too. I didn't want to spend a ton of time and money getting a beater up to that point.
It's a double edged sword. I'd love to keep my K5 super clean and DD it, but I need my truck, and don't need a fourth vehicle to add to the list. So I'll build up the K5, and wheel it, and hopefully keep the body out of the rocks etc as much as I can. I don't have anything to prove out on a trail, so if an obstical guarantees severe body damage, I'll just avoid it. Lots of armor and careful drivin' will hopefully let me have fun without too much sufferage on the K5's part.
If something changes, then I'll adjust to the situation.
I know what you mean, this truck was a 100 percent stock and super clean minus a set of 33's. Then I came here and it got bigger and badder and way more awesome than it was. This picture was at its half way stage. Now its got a 383/400/205 and its sitting on locked and crossed one tons, well soon to be locked (this weekend the Im doing the rearend). Over the last few days I took off all the chrome and last night it got its first little bit of fender trimming. It hurt to cut such clean sheet metal but oh well, its only a truck. Might as well have fun with it. My dad has been pretty pissed about it because I got it for a graduation present. But had I been able to afford a beater to throw money at I would have done that instead, so this is what I got.
Your truck looks exactly to the tee how mine did when I got it. Ill have to post some updated pictures because this one is a few years old.
Your truck looks exactly to the tee how mine did when I got it. Ill have to post some updated pictures because this one is a few years old.
