She conned me into putting the old crew back on the road. Complete frame up redo. That was great fun during the rest of the worlds "covid phase"
1985 W350 (barn find) it was in my barn so it counts. Lets see we bought it like 20 years ago...tossed in a stroker big block, some 38's and lockers and beat it all over a few countries. then took it apart 15 years ago.... and Barn find =)
It's now sporting a healthy VE pump IH block/head build. Cam, extrude ported head, S300 turbo, the usual stuff and some very amusing pump mods. NV4500 (billet imput/outputs) South Bend clutch, and a almost brand new NOS Np205.
1410 rear shaft/1350 CV front shaft. Dana 60 front with Dana 70 gears/Grizzly, 35 spline aftermarket inner/outter shafts. Yukon Lockouts, cut/turned knuckles, Dana 70 "c's" GLO cover...Blah blah.... Rear 14 Bolt has a grizzly and aftermarket axle shafts, and some GLO disk brakes/cover. Thanks again to my two favorite hippies... Shawn at GLO and Tate up there at Yukon.
It has a crossover steering... Moly tubes, HD TRE's and a PSI steering box. Alcan front springs, Chevy Suburban rear springs, 3" of lift total. Truck will fit in a 7" door with the 40's. Weighs under 6000lbs full of fluids, runs the 1/4 in under 14 sec, and has averaged 21mpg over the last 1500 miles.
It's far from finished really, still have plenty of paint work to do. (wet sand buff, paint rear fenders) Build some bumpers, and completely redo the interior. But overall we are happy with it....it tows great, runs along at 90mph on I80 no problem and in general works just fine.
