Finally....Da new rig..

oh man but i think axles would help lol what are you gonna run?

Titty sprinkles. Glad to see this project gaining traction.

Great work so far Crash!! Looking forward to your progress!

on your donor truck, what xfer case is in that?? does it have the 4 buttons on the dash for the shift controls??

I ask, because I need one for my '01 blazer, that and the TCC module inside the kickpanel on the pass side...


just curious if it (xfer case etc) was up for sale so I could get mine back on the road...

need to do some much needed love to my truck, but need a rig to drive in the mean time...

Zoediak said:

Great work so far Crash!! Looking forward to your progress!

on your donor truck, what xfer case is in that?? does it have the 4 buttons on the dash for the shift controls??

I ask, because I need one for my '01 blazer, that and the TCC module inside the kickpanel on the pass side...


just curious if it (xfer case etc) was up for sale so I could get mine back on the road...

need to do some much needed love to my truck, but need a rig to drive in the mean time...

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It left on saturday

So I made out pretty good. for what I sold my old tbi, cost of the truck and selling off the truck I am ahead $100

MY new headers showed up finally (back order). I decided to go ahead and replace them since the early headers don't work on the vortec motor without notching the flange on the top side.

So next I decided to go ahead and get the housings prepped. My original plan was to strip both housings of the brackets since they were so hammered and I am really thinking of going double ended ram on the steering.

One thing I love about the Pro-rocks is the suspension bridge--noo welding needed to the cast. To remove the bridge I had to cut the 1/2" plate for the old steering ram.

Looks brand new again....

Got the front housing all stripped.

Time for the rear....

Like the front I cut the nec items to remove the bridge and again cleaned it and the whole rear housing of the brackets. I left the brake caliper brackets on for now and more than likely I will be redoing them to roll the caliper down.

Got the diffs lifted up and onto the table. I had to make holding fixtures for the diffs so they would stay in place,lol..

getting close to GO TIME,

I got this a couple months ago to replace my worn out pro-tool notcher. Figured it was time to make the mount for it.

Time to get this show on the road.

Like I had stated the bottom or "sled" was going to be strongly based off the S&N Bravo 2 chassis. First I had ALWAYS admired its design and the second awsome part is the fact I have all the jigs to aid me in doing so..

So after looking over man pictures and going up and measuring on it was time to jump into it.

I simply started by getting the skid roughed into place and getting the side jigs in place. Over the course of from this picture to the down the road I think I moved them around like 14 times,lol...

I will say I am not super fast at this and I have messed up a couple bends but I do like to be as precise as I can--probably overly picky but I do like to be spot on.

The skid plate is slowly taking on some shape....

So one thing I found was the lower tube was too short which actually turned out to be a good thing. So I remade the front half of it and I sleeved the whole lower tube. Since that section of tube takes a good brunt of the beating I figured it wouldn't hurt to beef it up a bit.

Since the lower tube was done went to the upper part.

And the sled is done. Its hard to tell but I really pushed the front tube out an did this for a reason that I will go back to once the rest of the chassis is done. Feels good after over a week of work to have something...

Needs more triangulation... Oh wait, this isn't Pirate4x4...

:cheer: kinda fun huh...