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Missy goes full retro

If you don't need the extra 2 inches 4 inch is a nice way to go. Rides andf handles mint, no issues with front shaft or need to lower t case etc. Don't buy the tcase lower kit. It's cheap crap and you could make it easily from 2x2 square tube. I would drill the crossmember bolts and put one size larger bolts grade 8 with Pinch nuts not nyloc. Also I am a firm believer that one of the main reasons the frames crack around the steering box is those stupid spacers they use behind the bolts. They are there for assembly line ease. Kinda of tight but if you put shorter bolts in without them and use a good thick grade 8 washer you will not crack the frame, of course mif it's cracked already several kits availible(atleast used to be in the back of 4 wheel mags pre internet days ..)
Just my experiences. I really got get the video of "The Nuts" somehow off VHS onto the net. It was quite a truck. 74 GMC. There was no inch of it untouches and I broke everyhting that could be broken...20 yrs old and full of spunk back then. If i came home from 4 wheelin and noting was broke, it was a bad night.:D
 
In order to be competitive they had to go to the IFS up front.

GM got all the goody out of the Old Brick body.

I dont really think that they could have sold too many more years worth of that style.

MGW
 
I want the 6 inch lift so I can get the 35 inch tires under the rig without rubbing.

The case drop kit is no biggy. I can make all that stuff.

The biggy to me is the quality of the kit.

MGW
 
If Rancho still makes it I would say that would be the best otherwise either skyjacker or superlift would be fine I would think. All have been around since the beginning. Not sold on Procomp...Made in China...Who knows the other brands might be too now.
 
Been looking those places.

The Local 4x4 shops are selling the kits for about $1100 for all the goodies.

I think that can be beat though.

MGW
 
I love the new rigs, I just hate fixing them when they quit out in the booonies or the little orange light comes on (SES)

Looks like Im gonna go with Rough country KIT.

The folks at Rocky Mt have it priced very nice at around $500 for most of the stuff. It comes with 4 shocks, the raised steering arm and springs for the front and an add a leaf for the back and the blocksand hardware.

Not at all a bad deal.

MGW
 
Just don't use a steering block. Those things are death waiting to happen. I'm not even in love with the raised steering arm as the 3 bolts that hold it can break. I actually had mine welded to the knuckle as well as the bolts. drop pitman combined with a drop drag link is my preference. They make crossover steering now too which wasn't availible back in the day. when I built the Nuts I had to actually sub chassis the truck and lower the steering box. No Borgeson steering shafts in those days, I scrounged a heavy truck jnkyard until I found a shaft with the right ends from a Peterbilt then had a driveshaft shop shorten it.
 
The one I am getting has the arm that spirals up to the needed elevation.
The flange goes on just as a stocker does with the tapered sleaves that go in to stabilize and lock the thing.

The old ones that had the spacer and the long bolts No way.

I have seen those break

The forged arms that are just made to rise farther are fine.

MGW
 
Tons of good stuff arrives on the aftermarket scene simply because there is a demand for it.

Just a very few years ago, none of the cool stuff we take for granted was not even heard of.

Seems just like yesterday that a GM pickup had a Quadrajet Carb and an HEI distributor and that was it.

Not all that long ago, ya had to change the points every 30K miles or so.

Amazing where we have come in such a short time.

The amount of stuff available to build almost anything has blossomed exponentially.

MGW
 
Well

My Plan so far is to get a lift kit under the Burb and some nice tires and wheels on it and drive it as is for now.

This winter I am going to continue to dismantle the 87 Burb and clean, mark and store the parts I will need for the conversion.

"Tag em and bag em"

I can then get the 6.2 apart and give it a good looking over. At bare minimum I want to do bearings, rings and head gaskets.

The Block heater is shot and leaking so the soft plugs will definately be on the "LIST"

CAT yellow for this one too me thinks.

Still not sure which tranny I want to use. The 6.2 has a 700 behind it but at present I am not sure of its condition.

I might as well go though the thing while its out and make it spit spot.

Once the whole powertrain is ready, then doing the swap will be easy.
I dont want to lay the rig up while going through the diesel and the 700.

Truck is a lovely driver.

I can do the lift kit on a weekend probably, depending on the weather.

Once the 87 is stripped out I can roll that beast outside and have the shop open to do the lift on the 91.

I want to do this thing is stages and at a doable pace so I dont get bogged down and have to thrash on it.

Nest summer I have several labor intense items of work I need to do on the Big rig plus some domestics around the house.

yesss Gotta love them domestics eh ???

MGW
 
Yeah I have been slowly assmebling parts for the CUCV while stll using it. Never know when the "Lemon" might strand me somewhere. ON a lighter note the CUCV went all the way into Mass tonight to bootleg a little cheap petro and the light worky good. No blackout. You know why ??? Cause I installed to KC Daylighters on the Push bar in case so now the lights will never cut out...:D
 
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