The General

Here is Brian's 90 K5 Blazer

Delivered as:
D44 HD front - chromoly shafts, 4.10 gears
D70 rear, detroit locker (uninstalled), 4.10 gears
350 motor
350 trans
35" dunlop mt's on H2 rims
2" body lift installed
front fenders cut to hell
non working warn 12k from a hummer
crappy warn front bumper
poorly attatched but good rear bumper
hard and soft tops
4" front springs and shackle flip brackets uninstalled
doors not installed

Right now:
39.5x1350 iroc's on stock 16" steel rims
installed ORD shackle flip in rear
coribu baja ss seats
5 pt harnesses
ripped rear bumper off (on accident)
installed warn 9.5 winch till 12k is fixed & new bumper made
removed front wheel spacers
front brakes
put doors on with gentle massaging from a hammer

To come:
front 4" springs as soon as bushings get here this week
reworked front bumper-flush mounted with 12k winch (fixed)
rear bumper re attatched and moved in for better departure angles and sliders on rear corners
install uncut front fenders and procede to trim a little
trim rear fenders
sliders
toss rear bench and put stock buckers in place
finish roll cage and tie to frame
install detroit
rear brakes and make e-brake work
new rattle can OD paint job

2nd pic is soon after purchase
1st pic is after i finished rear shackle flip

got one hell of a texas tilt but since the fenders are cut so much i could run it right now.....ish i need to put in the front springs

Progress:
I got the new front springs on. The fenders on and trimmed for now, a little more will be necessary as the springs settle and break in. Decided to keep the rear bench for now till we find a coribu bench for the back. I fixed the 12k winch and mounted it and the warn bumper doesn't look as bad now that it is 8 inches higher off the ground or so.

Necesities left:
extend front driveshaft a few inches
fix rear brake cylinder that blew and go thru rear brakes
install detroit in d70
find and install 4" lift shocks and make new/ fix/ relocate shock mounts
and most importantly do crossover steering and eventually a ram or hydro assist or something of that nature as it doesn't turn right much because of the push pull steering

if someone has the parts sitting around to fix/swap the steering i could get it ready for clayton but if not it will wait till after the new years. i have a 2wd box so i think all i have to do is add a tierod to the traglink but haven't spent a lot of time messing with it

pushpull steering problem

as she sits now

since i took the pleasure of naming it the general i thought it should have at least 1 star so at about 1 the previous morning i added one with duck tape. after the repaint over christmas i think there will be a star on each door and on the hood (in white paint)

You need to stock pile 10 bolt shafts. Just the weight of the irok plus the steel rim is making me cringe.

I wouldn't spend money to do crossover steering. By the time you're done with it you'll probably spend at least $200. Put that towards a dana 60. Get a raised steering arm and hope for the best.

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

You need to stock pile 10 bolt shafts. Just the weight of the irok plus the steel rim is making me cringe.

I wouldn't spend money to do crossover steering. By the time you're done with it you'll probably spend at least $200. Put that towards a dana 60. Get a raised steering arm and hope for the best.

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Maybe you should read the first post about the chomoly shafts. :flipoff2:

Dougs just bustings your balls cause his blazer sucks.

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Originally Posted by fbronco86

Maybe you should read the first post about the chomoly shafts. :flipoff2:

Dougs just bustings your balls cause his blazer sucks.

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crap! didn't see that. However I still say save for a 60. My 35's wrecked my ball joints at least once a year. Hell the las cruces trip killed my ball joints. I rebuilt that whole axle before hand and had to change out one the ball joints at Mary's ranch in Fort Stockton on the way home.

P.S. Mike's just busting my balls because I get to wheel in 2 weeks :flipoff2:

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

crap! didn't see that. However I still say save for a 60. My 35's wrecked my ball joints at least once a year. Hell the las cruces trip killed my ball joints. I rebuilt that whole axle before hand and had to change out one the ball joints at Mary's ranch in Fort Stockton on the way home.

P.S. Mike's just busting my balls because I get to wheel in 2 weeks :flipoff2:

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I am gonna really try to get my eb to tcc it will look ugly but I think I can make it.

I wanna see how these shafts hold up to those big tires.

Does it have standard ujoints?

as far as i know yes on the u-joints and for the 10th time doug its not a 10 bolt it is a d44 and it is going to get left open due to the large tire size so hopefully it will work out

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Originally Posted by colman

as far as i know yes on the u-joints and for the 10th time doug its not a 10 bolt it is a d44 and it is going to get left open due to the large tire size so hopefully it will work out

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Doug is gonna try to break your balls on this 10 bolt 44 thing.

Might wanna stick a ujoint in your box then. The shafts will probably hold up.

i just got my rear bumper back on, now i need to fix my rear driveshaft, steering and the front axle.

Aren't you trying to sell this?

yeah, but i broke some stuff when i was out at 47 a few weeks ago, so i have ot fix those things before i sell it