Recent content by gtrainor21

My equipment limits me to the slow rocky stuff, but its not even built up enough to be considered a "crawler"... otherwise my dirt bike gets me everywhere my K5 cant... I want to get in to the faster paced side of the off-road world sooner than later, I have a K5 that got t-boned thats been...

Had the discussion with my cousin, thats his GFs birthday weekend and shes not into this kind of stuff so I'm counting him out (unless he finds a cooler girlfriend). I'm gonna try and whip out some upgrades to the truck the week before, plus I'm supposed to go back up to Colorado for the...

This trip looks really good for me actually, could probably get my cousin out there in his K5 I just finished up for him. We’d be out there doing some mild 4x4 stuff. We’re both on 33s with truetracs

so far it’s pretty much trouble free. I’ve got a MAF sensor connector to change to eliminate a couple electrical gremlins. After some time on the phone with tech support from the company that built the LS harness they finally admitted to having a bad run of connectors and sent one my way. If...

I got the exhaust done and logged about 70 miles before flipping the keys to the owner for a couple days. So far sounds like he managed to put another couple hundred on it. Of course he sent me pics while I was at work of him playing with the forklift after installing the winch. Not too bad on...

Then it was exhaust to make it truly streetable. Like said I’ll have to snap a bunch of final pics but here’s a teaser of the Y-Pipe I put together. I decided on a single exit 3.5” with two 2.5”s going in. Big flowmaster and it’s still pretty aggressive on the throttle…

Got tunnel vision and didn’t get pics before I went back to work so I’m gonna drop what I have for now. I got the front differential painted up and back under the truck with new wheel end components. From there it hit the ground and did it’s first drive around the block (always a great feeling)

I’ll hit another update soon. I just finished setting up the 4.10s and true-trac in the front today. Hopefully it’ll be back on all fours by tomorrow night 🤙🏼

I kept the shock mounts simple here too, just some cut down Ford brackets bolted to the frame. Couple more cycles to check driveline lengths, driveline to oil pan clearance, and tire clearance. I had the springs made to move the axle forward 1” and that worked out well, because I only had to...

Then it was repeat process on the front, slightly more involved now dealing with steering components and a sway bar but still pretty straight forward. I did ultimately have to lower the bumpstops to give me more comfortable clearances on the sway bar and drag link. I’ve got a set of taller poly...

After everything was cycled and tacked in place it all came back out for final weld and paint. Then make new brake lines and reassemble it all. Gotta make everything look pretty so it can get beat up in the rocks… Still waiting on front suspension to get wrapped up to do final torques on...

Started a new job and I’m way behind on updates. Being so busy lately I’ve been terrible about photo documentation. So for starters the original 10 bolt and rear springs went in the trash. I sourced a low mile SF 14 bolt with 4.10 gears to swap in the rear. Packed that with a true-trac, new...

Really excited for the next half of the project now that the LS swap is done though. I’ve got a move happening in the near future so this may go on hold for a bit since I can drive it on and off a trailer now. But the next step is for it to go into hovercraft mode. Then axles will get put...

Well… it runs now! Before I went back to Glamis last week I finished up the wiring and gauges to get it fired up. The only issue I had on the first start was it kept blowing the fuel pump fuse. My guess is the newer fuel pump has a higher amp draw than the original TBI pump? The original fuse...

And this is where I’m at as of yesterday. Just got the 05 Silverado radiator and electric fans mounted. I started off by mocking everything in place and piecing together a lower mount for the assembly. Once it was set in place I made up the upper mount. Again, not the cleanest fab work out...