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Originally Posted by DeadheadNM
Tyler thanks for posting the pics and glad your family is doing well. Hope your buddy turns the corner to better health.
I look forward to when I can get back out onto the high desert. Lots of fun to be had. Fossils and other things to be discovered. It's fun to see elk herds out in that country.
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For sure, that’s the one thing that keeps me pretty contempt with life up here. I could make more money if I went to other oil patches, but the wide open public land we still have up here is a huge plus. All kinds of adventure to be had.
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Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and I also hope your machinist friend pulls through. It's crazy how CV seems to effect all age groups differently and how things keep changing with it. Hopefully it gets gone by next spring.
Nice pics, it definitely looks like fun there! I have a project 71 K20 and I was just thinking if I should keep the HO52 or just swap a 14BFF in it now. It's supposed to be a low budget truck but we all know how that goes. Haha
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Good to hear from your Ryan! Thanksgiving was great, hope the same for you. Covid is a wild one. I’m not one to buy into all the things we are fed about it, and I feel there is a ton of legislative overreach going on. I do however, believe it makes some people sick as hell. It’s Wild to see how it affects people so different. My stepmom had it and was pretty sick, in bed all day, difficulty breathing, chest pains the whole 9 yards. My dad didn’t hardly show any symptoms at all. Both are completely recovered now.
Low budget huh??? That won’t last long
I’d vote for the 14 bolt solely on the ability and ease of getting parts for it. I can certainly understand the desire to keep the HO52 for originality sake, if mine had still had it I’d probably have done what I could to keep it running. That said the legendary beef of the 10.5” 14 bolt is hard to beat. Square body 1 ton is a bolt in with the exception of one shock mount and ebrake cables. It’s Hard to beat the 14 bolt as it’s still in production today and still nearly identical to the original in 1973.
The rear Dana 60 is definitely a good option as well.