The funeral

Excellent movie. Can't say enough good things. Footage was great, sound track was great. If you ride off road, you gotta go see this movie.

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Its been a garage queen for the last 6ish months ........ It failed smog (needs a cat) and I've been riding the minibikes

Not sure if you saw these but heres the "latest" from about 3?months ago?

the fenders are "diffrent now"

Ya, I did the cage work, I have a Pro Tools bender.

I still have all the lights so its street legal, because its registered as a "station wagon" I dont "need" mud flaps.....

Yes for the chevys, I wouldnt do them again, all the crap I had to do to get the lift I wanted I could have gotten AllPro springs that wouldnt drag everywhere.........

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... There Rockwell axles, I assume??

You can get custom rims built (for alot less $$ than you think) and then run 15" tires......

But theres alot of those 49" Michlen ex military tires that are nice also that are ment to run on those rockwell sized rims......

I have heard good things about Boyce....

I've heard enough BAD things about a guy named Daniel from 6X6 USA (or somthing like that) to steer you away from him.

Another thing is that with those Rockwell axles you have to use a link type suspension if you want any type of suspension flex because leaf springs will have to be too stiff to stop the springs from wrapping and doing bad things.......
So, once you've built the cross menbers for the links to mount, you "might" as well keep whats left of the stock GMC frame......
Check out http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/ for more ideas, the search has been down for a while there otherwise I'd tell ya to search.........

And ......... what size tire are you thinking of??

I’m thinking 40-44’s, but I would consider bigger if they’d fit, and something wide that’ll float on top of the snow. The axles I’m looking at from Boyce have disc brakes and lockers. They said they even have a rear steer kit for a few extra bucks, 2 front axles instead of front and rear. My frame is bent to **** and 2 body mounts snapped off last time I was up at the cabin. I hauled in a gang of people and I guess the extra passenger weight was the straw…..couldn’t handle the frame twists. The cab dropped forward into the front fenders and I near had to climb out the window. I jacked up the body and slid some 2 X 4’s between it and the frame to get me home without tearing the body and fenders up. All my crossmembers look like bridge arches and the bottom flange of the frame is worn thin as a razor blade form scraping over rock drops.
The 2 ½ ton frame is a beauty, heavy but tough as nails and absolutely rust free. There’s not a lot of advantages to living in the Arctic, but one is that nothing rusts. The frame is already cut, body mounts in place and steering box set up for a new GM body. I’d like disc brakes in something that heavy and lockers for sure. Boyce will take my axles on trade, but it may not be worth it due to high shipping costs.
My brother is a manager at a Michelin plant and can get me a great deal on the tires. I’m thinking that my truck will never see the south again so I may as well hog it right out. Maybe I’ll use the stock frame to build the swingarms out of.

Out side of my house