Apparently all it takes to follow really well-built rigs on 35s is a pile of 3/4 ton cut to fit 42s.
Didn't get to really work the hard climb out of Big O because I blew a rusty brake line, but it was doing the rock creek-sized stuff on the rest of Big O with relative ease.
To continue as a pilecrawler it needs the shifter fixed (way of of adjustment and falls from D to N on bumps. 1 & P are fine. N & R are hard to locate. Unless aiming to stay in D or hit N, respectively. Also needs rusty brake hard lines replaced.
The "floor board" works well enough. Fluid changes would probably not be a bad idea.
Not sure it's worth welding the axles that are there. Doubt I'll break anything the way they are which is nice, and it goes most anywhere a full body thing belongs.
There are a few options post-successful-drivtrain-shakedown:
I could probably put a floor in the driver side, put some square stock rockers in it, swap the fuel tank, and run it. Make new front control arms an inch longer and change nothing else to get the tires mostly out of the cab.
I could boat side the cab, lose the bed, lose the front outer fenders, and call it a truggy. Fuel cell, 120" wb, probably gear and disk the 70 and put the ford fronted in, air shocks?
Could lose all the body and put tube on top. Rest similar to above.
Could replace all frame and body with tube.
I think I'll look at some class rules and see what I could do and still be stock or mod class, and maybe help that sway my decision. Doubt it'll change much since I doubt I'd want to fit into those guidelines.
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