Recent content by DannyG

First time sitting on its own weight! Man that was a huge milestone for the build.

No, King 3.0 ibp I was dead set on running 3.5” but Keith Marigold advised me to stick with 3.0 because there’s way more spring rates available for 3.0 vs 3.5

Trailing arms wrapped up. Simple 2d arms, all 4130 construction. 1.75”x.125” lower tube with .125” pocket, .090” vertical center gussets. .190 outer plates with .125” overlay. Mig blasted together. Dirt King wobble stopper uniball cups up front.

Couple shots of the added ram assist from Lee Power Steering

Dana 50 swingset steering. Since there is nothing commercially available for the D50 respective to steering, I set out to build my own. I don’t do anything in cad so I relied on the old school tools to get it done. Plumb Bob, string line, protractor, straight edges, paper templates, and a couple...

Coolers! I decided to build my own coolers rather than purchasing them. The radiator is 2011 Duramax NAPA replacement. I pulled the end tanks and fabricated my own. One side tank has a bulkhead welded into it making the radiator a dual pass. The trans & engine oil coolers are built in the same...

Cut & sleeved the axles, massaged the Ujount on the slip yoke of the driver side beam and was able to achieve nearly 20” of functional 4x4 wheel travel. I’m pretty pumped on that! My old prerunner was strapped at 18” in the front, this one will probably the same. Steering coming up next!

Radius arms built out, time to cycle the front suspension. There’s some massaging of a few sections of the frame to yeild more up travel. Those sections were plated over later on. Not sure if I have pics though.

I did weld as much of the driver side beam as possible with the diff bolted in place. Other than that i didn’t do any type of fixturing.

Beams!! I pulled the Dana 50 beams from the donor truck and sandblasted them. I purchased a 4.5” over plate kit from Threat Motorsports and got to work cutting & extending the beams. The plate kit worked out pretty well. I ended up modifying some of the plates and adding a little more gusseting...

Fuel tank fabrication time! I elected to build a fuel “tank” instead of a traditional cell with a flexible foam filled bladder. After all, this is a “prerunner” not a racecar that would need to pass technical inspection. The fuel tank in my old prerunner was built in the same manner and provided...

Rear floor & firewall section sealed back up using 18ga CR sheet, rear seat mounts in there too. Picked up a donor truck for the Dana 50 beams and a smog exempt diesel title. Tail section for backhalf roughed in.

Thanks Erik! Hope all is well dude!!

Picked up the 3.0 IBPs from Keith Marigold along with the manual valve body 4l80 from Vons Transmission. Built out the rear sho k brackets. Went with a tube/plate style mount. Trying to keep it slim and functional.

Yeah. Most of these photos are already on IG. Gotta scroll back a couple years to find them. Haha