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[IronClad]

It was a long bed reg cab  but   that cab got trashed so i stuck a Xtra cab and a bobbed shortbed on
Its basicly  your normal fullwidth swap ( well.. sorta)   
12bolt rear  welded 5.13s   
10 bolt front  5.13s welded.   
Hysteer  done with  custom arms made from 1 1/4" bar   1 1/2 .250 wall DOM  steering links  3/4" hiem joints.
3rd gen toy rears up front   with mixed toyota leafs
Dodge charger main leafs out back with a f150 leaf and the rest are toyota leafs  with  drop shackles and traction bar
37" MT/R's


Future mods are the obvious   coilovers  4link front and rear   60's  44's or 42's  blahblahblah

pics !



i got owned by my front drive shaft couple days ago.. and yes i picked all of that up







that  ledge is a good bit steeper  than the pics let on to be.. that was NOT FUN since  theres a ton of riverrock out there and the front driveshaft was stabbed into the ground.  and  took forever to dig out

[lilbuddy]

Sweet truck. Thats pretty crazy you went up that hill, claypits right? If its those out there, those are pretty steep. We needa go weelin. Maybe in April sometime? The 19th(last sat) I had no money so I didnt put a post up.

[IronClad]

yah thats out at the claypits..  I wont be able to go wheelin. im leaving for canada  on thursday and dont know when i will be back.

I made to to the top of the ledge  but then my clutch started to slip so i stopped and when i backed down i hit the brakes and my front end unloaded and the driveshaft slipped out

this was about 40mph to 0  in an instant

[UNBREAKABLE]

cool

[toyhunter]

        

[Jared]

did you have to outboard your springs any at all?   what about your brakes?  how did you get the lines to hook up?   Did you have to run a bigger master cylinder?  I have a pair of fullwidths that i plan on running on my next project...   I got a 44 frotn and a 14 bolt rear that im really havin fun thinkink about!

[IronClad]

i outboarded the front  springs to center the axle up   i think its a 34 1/2"  outside to outisde.   I upgraded to a corvette  M/C   ( 1 1/4" bore)  and made a simple adapter plate out of a piece of 3/8ths  plate. and  put  studs in for the chevy m/c and drilled holes for the toyota booster.  For the lines  i got some stainless steel braided lines from Bones on pirate and  they hook right up to the toyota lines.  but for the M/C  i got adapters to go from the  M/C to  3/16's  and  i reflared the hardline for them.  works  great

[mudaddict]

man thats a nice lookin rig!!!!!

[IronClad]

Well i blew the headgasket in it.. and  mid repair i  got bored  so i decided to do a little hackin..  im not sure if im gonna  finish repairing the engine.. i probably will and then sell it  because i want to swap in a 350.  but we'll see

i decided to inboard my rear springs and dovetail the bed.  along with doing away with my drop shackles,  im also moving my gas tank and  building another traction bar to run on the other side  due to my lovely axle wrap problems. And also remount my shocks  in a more straight up in down fashion close together  for  good high speed dampening while not hurting flex when im crawlin


pics !!














tis all for now.  i'll be back later with more when i get more done.

[alwayzbroken]

I would really like to see how you made the front inboard spring hanger. I plan on doing this soon also. What are the measurements? 

[IronClad]

didnt take any measurements  besides front to back  i just stuck them on the inside edge of the frame and welded them on and did some  triangle gussets.

[alwayzbroken]

Ok, do you have any pics you can post?

[wheelinyotagirl]

Not to shabby Matt You gonna clean it up and make it look clean or u gonna leaeve it somewhat ruff and just say screw it?

[IronClad]

i'll get some pics tomarrow   i dont have any right now

i'll  clean it up a bit  but not a whole lot..  since  its no longer gonna be driven on the road and  wont be smog legal with the 350 ( it could be but.. to much work) 

[wheelinyotagirl]

Where'd you get the 350?

[stone4x4]

how many times you broke that 10 bolt 

[IronClad]

none.   ive thought it has broke about 100 times now but it has  laughed at it all.   Hell i broke my conversion flange from Paradise driveline ( Jesse  from high angle drivelines dad owns it )  for my 12 bolt  before ive broken anything  in my axles.

[stone4x4]

WOW
and i run chromo in a d44 and break axles with yukon joints

[Makohon]

dude you cant do that to your bed!!!! u cant look cool like me ............. lookin good!! aint it so much better havin the bed like that?? it still looks good and you can actually see sooo much better and you hardly get body damage!!!! instead of a 350 swap be cool and build up a 22r or re and do a propane conversion on it and put a turbo in it!!! costs like 2 k... but keep up the work!!!!!  

[IronClad]

haha  your truck was actually  my inspiration .  I used to  have a narrowed front clip and a dovetail tube bedish thing   before the cab swap.


that was  after i stuck a bed back on..

looked like this for a while




Right now it has a LC Engineering  EFI Preformer Pro  22re in it.  its a killer engine  but i just want more power.  Who knows i might not drop in a 350  and might stick with the 4banger.. but we'll see

[redneck]

was that the square front d-line i gave you that came apart  lol im glad i didnt use it your truck came a long ways matt keep it up lets go wheelin sometime  phil

[scheid6996]

sweet rig

[IronClad]

haha yeah phill  thats the driveline  or well the top half  is .  Its just not long enough  so i need to extend it a bit.   Hopefully  i'll have the truck goin again soon and be able to go wheelin

[bigman]

nice all of the pic post some more k

[wheelinyotagirl]

well heres rear 4link in progress

[IronClad]

more pics comming soon  im takin my camera up to the shop today 

[wheelinyotagirl]

  Where are the pictures you took?    Post em up

[IronClad]

new pics 

[IronClad]

  

[IronClad]