my gmc 2500

[70 beast]

ya we have a 496bbc in it now...it would be great minus the fact that it gets like4-5 miles per gallon. but hes building a mildly stock 396bbc for it.


I've thought about it but i love the reliability of the Detroit. I've beat the snot outta these lockers and haven't broke one yet. the only down side is turning. with it lock, turnings is a bit rough at times. but that's it. and i think detroits are way cheaper than arb's.

[onlyifihadachevy]

nice but i think detroits are around 400-500 and the arbs are 5-600, but the arbs are just as good from my understanding but you can press the button and you can turn i think i'm oing to get a detroit for my other truck unless i weld the spiders.

[70 beast]

500-600? all the ones ive seen are more like 600-700?
being able to turn is a plus but i would still go with a detroit.

[onlyifihadachevy]

Wow they went up now there like 900-1000, then i was pricing them a few months ago i saw them for like 5-600

[70 beast]

having an arb would be cool, but at that price and this current economy...ill still go with a detroit.

[onlyifihadachevy]

yea i saw that and i thought im not getting that soon but i will get lockers in my other truck once i get the setup i like.

[onlyifihadachevy]

I was working most the day on this i cleaned up and painted the rear end i still have to do the brakes and weld the perchs, i was media blasting everything i could and painting it too, i feel like i could have done more but i was media blasting with low pressure because i used it for a while then the compressor was on for a while and the stuff wasn't coming off. But i waited a little and the compressor stoped then i started blasting again it worked fine. Pic tomarrow.

[onlyifihadachevy]

i was working on my truck and got everything done thinking i have to just replace a wheel cylinder then i was pulling drum and saw it was packed with mud and their was no pad on one side and the other was falling off, so i pulled the other side and found nothing wrong but my uncle said go order drums and shoes. My grandma ordered them and we get them they were 5 lug and replacements for 15-3500 c/k s then we talked got the right stuff and then got the bill 200+. was puting them on and ran out of time but so i still need to put on the drivers side then i can go wheeling satuday. When i went to put the leafs back on i thought i should run no overloads and i did and in the air they sit about 4-5 ins lower than with the overs and they will flex a few more in's up, so i got some used shocks from the back they fit well and going to test the flex tomarrow.

[84 400]

cool yeah flipping the overload or removing it will always gain you flex but if ur going to use it as a tow ri i would throw em back in.

As for the arb thing I would only wnat one in the front. No need for a selectable locker in the rear... I am going to run a loc rite in the front of mine.

Man ur getting alot done on this trucki feel like a slacker now

[onlyifihadachevy]

Yea a selectable locker up front is what i want and someone i know is going to dump over 2000 for arbs and doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand he can have a detriot in the rear and still be highway friendly. But I'm keeping the overs and putting them back on when my other truck is done not to mess up my wheeling till then.

[onlyifihadachevy]

i have a leaky seal in my 203, the front output shaft spot, i will fix that next week or something, but today will be the last day at my uncles shop for this truck till it breaks again. wheeling tomarrow, so i should have some pics.

[onlyifihadachevy]

i got it all loaded up and got a new driveline for the rear 319, but my uncle got tthhat for me, i found that i put the hubs up front in wrong but then wroked just didn't unlock, thats fixed and im ready. IF this trucks body gets messed up then i will build this one too.

[onlyifihadachevy]

I wheeled all day, caught some air in the mud bog, came down and didn't move had to be pulled. everyone was does it have a big block, no. what did you do to it, nothing, its really healthy must of done the cam, intake and heads, nope. It does sound good but in the cab when you idling it has a leak at the heads because no gaskets or bolts in the center. But i had a good time flexed it a lot i have one picture that shows the front then rear axle in the same pic. I had it flexed more but my dad didn't get the shots or it didn't save them. I lost the mirror to the side of the trail it took some paint but no real dents, bent the front bumper, dented the chrome on the back of the cab.


After the bog didn't stay running that well because the points had water in them but i took some trails and then we were going to run one last trail the sand rail messed up the tranny so it was us and a 4runnner going up my front end wasn't orking so we made it up so far and hearing a faint popping so we thought check the tranny fuild and we put a quart in it check the front diff opened a brand new bottle of 80-90wt went to pour it in and it poured out, so we thought ut it in 4hi so thought it was in 4 high and then it happened. IT was suck in n in the t-case, the truck died,, we put 2 pieces of wood under the pasager tires i was letting it rol on to them it went over cught speeed i couldn't turn it then about a foot from the edge finally turned it enough and it turned sharp into the wall of the hill and stoped. LUcky im still here the drop was at least a 2000 feet to the bottom of the valley.

I will put pics tomarrow.

[onlyifihadachevy]

still haven't put pics on my computer but i was cleaning the mud and dirt off and looked under it found i messed up all my body and motor mounts.

[70 beast]

ahh...crazy shenanigans.

[70 beast]

good thing no one got hurt.

[onlyifihadachevy]

The pics, had to switch back tires too fit on the trailer. When we arrived and was unloading.


The trail, open front diff didn't help made it but got stuck in the beginning.


ME and my truck had to do one pic i was going to flex the truck on a rock and take the pic but it was hot.

[onlyifihadachevy]

A friends truck all they were doing is trying to make it they tryed it a few hundred times, and asked it i was going to try, i tried lanuched it and came down and was stuck, and didn't want to try again i think i could have made it the other way or didn't lanuch it.


DID the rock part then went around the rock sqeeze and going to the frame twister and doing the frame twister.

[onlyifihadachevy]

A friends truck i have to pull off the rock, ifs and got hung up.

[70 beast]

are you going to keep the 10 bolt up front?

[onlyifihadachevy]

yup thats what i have in it and they're cheap and i don't plan on wheeling it much so it shoul work for towing a trailer up there to the day use area. even in the mud.

[84 400]

cool man. Wheel it if it breaks upgrade it. Somany people get into having this and that but depending on what you do and how you do it the smaller stuff can work. Cool to see your truck out getting used!

[onlyifihadachevy]

I know people who use the same front end or the 1/2ts and they do as much as they can and they seem to have no major problems so i will do the same and upgrade if i break the same thing twice. Smaller is cheaper.

[onlyifihadachevy]

I think i should update this, we are plannin g a trip to pismo, for those who don't know sand dunes next to a beach on the 23-25. We are not planning it just shoing up for a friends birthday or something like that, With my truck. So we have to fix the brake isue, think we need to bleed the brakes. If not it will get fixed somehow, we will check everything.

[onlyifihadachevy]

Well good news on this its going to get a real paint job, the bad i have to sand it.