The Krakin' build thread.

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I decided it was about time to post up a thread of how my truck started it's life when i bought it about 5 years ago up to the point im at now. I'll post all the pics from start to the current point im at.
This is when i first bought the truck. It looked like a bit of a hoopdee but i knew there would be hope yet.

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Here is the the point it was at a 6 inch lift with a 3 inch body lift and 37x14 iroks.

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This jumps me ahead to the current state of the truck.
-Offroad direct solid axle conversion with 48 inch BDS 4 inch lift springs and 1" zero rate up front.
-Offroad design shackle flip in the rear with a 1" zero rate, add-a-leaf and, 6 inch DIY4X shackle.
-Axles are a 1979 ford hp 44 up front and a 77 ff 14 bolt out back
- Tire and wheels are 37x12.50 bfg km2's and 17 inch black xd addict wheels.
- steering i built from DOM and did a simple crossover setup.
On to some f'n pics.

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New tires.

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Bilstein 5150 shock

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Old 10 bolt still in the rear.

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This brought to swapping out the old 10 bolt along with ditching the tension shackle and block setup.
Front setup

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grinding rear perches off. so much fun!

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Then i decided to catch my truck on fire to get the old shackle out.

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Goodbye 10 bolt.

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Along with stock shackle mount.

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Hello Shackle flip.

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Her is a comparision of the stock shackle on the right and the diy4x on the left side.

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I also swapped the stock wheel studs for dually's as my aftermarket wheels did'nt allow for the proper amount of threads, due the disc conversion.

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Here is the rear axle pretty much finished other than the brake situation.

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This leaves me at the current state of the build. Some pic's as today.

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Still have to work on the back bumper and build a front bumper along with painting the toolbox black and getting rid of those side hooks and gas door, but it's coming along.

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Well i've got a few updated pic's, Leveled the truck out and did a few other misc, thing's, pulling body lift next and building custom bumper's along with blacking the chrome out and repainting.

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