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If You Can Wait About 3 Weeks,i Hope To Be Setting The Body On The Frame By Then!!!

Ive Seen 2 67-72 Trucks With 12" Lifts(no Body Lifts)
And Both Were Clearing 44's Without Trimming Fenderwells.
Not By Enought To Go Offroading.
I Think 23" With 52's Should Clear The Way I Drive(balls To The Walls!!!)
Ill Know Before Long

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Yea it will still be a while before I'm ready to set mine up. Waiting on a few items still. I do have a 3 in body lift already on the truck though.

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Cant wait to see it done.All of us members around with 4wds need to go wheelin somewhere this year with our 67-72s..

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the badlands over in attica would be a good trip.
ive some of the guys on here talking about a trip to the dunes up in michigan,that woudl be a really good trip too.

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Seeing the body on the frame will be awesome! I can't wait to see those meats bolted up to the axles!:metal: You've passed cool lifted truck and gone all the way to mini-monster truck....... SWEET! Maybe you should look around for some combine drive wheels and tires. What are they? Like 3' wide, how cool would that be, you'd float across about any mud hole.:lol:

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Hey Andy, that would be cool if you could make the dunes trip.

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i love the dunes,we used to take my big tahoe there every year..what a blast!!
i know the k5 would have to be nasty in the sand!!

hey big j,you seen any of the "trucks gone wild" dvd's

they strap 8 of those big floater tires to a truck and float it across a lake,dual 48x31x24's at each corner,thats like a six foot wide tire at each corner....i would love to be able to do that ,those tires are BIG $$$,then you need 8 of them.

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Sweet
Looks Good I Want To Know How That Motor Works For Ya
They Run Good In The New Trucks
Do Ya Have A Good Gear New Trucks Dont Run Much Less Than A 3.73
In A 4x4 Until These New Ones With A 6 Speed Came Out

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threw the tires on and rolled the chassis out of the garage to clean things up a litlle bit.

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That thing is a beast, can't wait to see the body on it. Are you sure that 5.3 is going to have enough get up a go for all taht weight? Lookin good:metal:

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That is going to chew some serious mud!

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i will just be running the stock 5.3 to get things up and going.once the bugs are worked out.it wil lgo thru some changes and be producing 450 hp with a 200hp shot of nitrous for the REALLY deep stuff:burnout:

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Wow - nice work!

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Good Thing Sping is Coming, Sure not gonna put that Tub on in your Garage..........

This is Gonna be Nicer than your Tahoe was & That was Killer...........

Good Luck,Rick

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if i take the wheels and tires back off,the body will fit on it inside the garage and will just BARELY clear the overhead door with these rollers i made to fit undr the axles.

man i do miss my tahoe though!i dont think the k5 will be quite as easy to make a daily driver,but much more fun in the mud

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Holy Crap! That thing is going to be a monster!

Nice!

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That was exactly my thought, lol.... Yeah right now you'd need about 6 basket ball players to lift that on for ya, lol.

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thats just badazz.... can`t wait to see it all togeather!!

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Hey tallhoedude and toomanytoys! I finally got moved around at work and have weekends off. I would be up to a road trip to help either one of you out. I am finally starting on mamas 72 K5. I am only 25 minutes away from Badlands.

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Man that thing is gonna be huge..I'm gonna get the lift on my Blazer this month or if I'm lucky get the motor in my K20 and I can take it up there.We really need to plan a trip to the Badlands this year...

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Troy,

That's Good News about your Work, Glad to hear it for You. Did u Get all the Work Done to Your Shop? Want to Come Down & See it...........

Thanks, Rick

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thanks for the words of encouragement and compliments.
actually i have access to 2 forklifts.each within 3 miles of my house!!
so if id decide to finish the body and cage before installing it on the frame it shouldnt be too bad a deal.
i am so up for a trip to the badlands.
i am heading out this week for family vacation to florida! gonna check out a few BIG trucks while im down there.lots of those guys are running 5TON
axles...huge!
but once im back ive got lots of parts to assemble,hopefully have this thing on the road by june.keeping my fingers crossed.

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Cool, sounds like you'll be ready for a late fall dunes trip. ;)

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FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Did you end up narrowing your front axle? Looks like it is still full width.