My Build Thread (year+) on 71 Jimmy 4x4

[RckyMntnKng]

Rescued some Jeeps along the way

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Bacon, Busted glass and old Mining Buildings

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Kids loved it, and i kept picking up passengers as 3 out of 4 jeeps bit the dust

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sometimes the river is your road - in Idaho

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[chevy2racr]

opps! damn tree got your fuel fill! looks like a blast!!

[Burt4x4]

Holy Crap!!
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa!!!!


Hell Ya! Looks like a blast!!

Are thoes boys asleep or praying hahahahaaa

Good Times!!
Thanks for sharing!

[Bull72]

This is a really nice rig! Great work I like your build a lot. The speakers, the tool boxes, the wiring, the below seat drawers, the attention to detail is really nice to (chrome accents on the door sill, the gauge cluster, the diff covers) everything on this truck is really nice buddy! Congrats!

[RckyMntnKng]

Its hard to tell what those boys are ever doing lol....from what I can remember they were rocking out to Metallica - you know its SAD BUT TRUUEEEEEEE, and then they would do the whole head banging thing in unison. Eventually we wore them slam out and they relaxed a bit and took various naps and quiet short lived brakes.

I really appreciate all the kind words on my build. I dont think im ever going to do it again - but I sure enjoyed finishing this one! and it will get used a bunch - and im the kind who will tear things up at a moments notice if I get the itch to point it somewhere and go

[RckyMntnKng]

Fun times and its going back on another trip, Labor Day weekend

.....If i can convince Erica to ride with me again lol - I got her puckered up a couple times. We teased her all weekend that she put dents in the roll bars from her grip as we traversed some side-hills

[Rdrdave]

CONGRATS ON THAT BUILD! Looks sweet and functional. Great job!

[Burt4x4]

Rock On Brother!!!

I will be wheeling up to Coyote Lake that same weekend (High above Fresno) so we will both be wheeling and someday maybe the same trail somewere

[RckyMntnKng]

WOOOOOt right on man

Sure hope we can wheel the same trail someday - I still owe you a beer or two im thinking.

That area looks beautiful

[Burt4x4]

We owe eachother beer

Your territory is still on my "Ta Do" list! So one of thease years!

[RckyMntnKng]

Well guys...it looks like im going to get to turn wrenches with you all some-more.

I dont know how it happened, but this 69 K20 kinda fell in my lap, and some girl (Erica) convinced/persuaded me to build it for her....

Stay tuned and will get a build thread going somwhere LMAO.

[RckyMntnKng]

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=528037

The other build thread

[99-LS1-SS]

Do you have any pictures of how the both sets (front and rear) of Tahoe seats are mounted to the floor? I just got a set for my 72.

[RckyMntnKng]

Unfortunately I didnt take alot of pictures during that step..but I do remember the research I had done.

If you wanted to take the time to do it Super nice, then I would order online, or find in a junkyard - the striker pin pockets that mount in the floor and allow the seat to rotate, fold forward, and lock down via the lever in the back of seat. You would have to fab them into your floor and reinforce but would be pretty tight.

The route I took was a quicker easier cheaper one but it accomplished a couple things i wanted that the first way wouldnt. I wanted my seats to sit up higher off the floor so that knees wouldnt be in your chin all the time. Also I wanted space under the seat for storage, and wanted them pushed forward more so the rear cargo area increased.

All I did was pull the fabric off the bottom to gain access to the frame, and welded some 2" pipe legs with 4"x4" flat plate feet for support and then sandwiched the other side with another plate exactly like mounting a roll bar. I made new holes in the floor about 3 to 4" forward of the the original seat mount holes. Overall i like how it turned out with the pull out drawers.

[RckyMntnKng]

Couple recent 4th Weekend pics.

Recently made some mods on the rear cargo area:

First I moved the seats about 4" more forward leaving enough room to lay the tire flat in the back, and use all the tailgate for storage with a rack.

To increase my range and get rid of all the gas cans I took a 15 gallon external tank with vented cap and pulled the hand pump setup out. installed a handle check/ball valve to give me a manual on/off gravity feed into the main underbody tank. I used the previous seat mount holes to build a Riser for the tank above the tire behind the new seat location.

I pulled the old side gas cap and put a flush mount marine boat deck cap into the side body in same hole, and ran new piping and vents down to the tank. In the metal elbow between the filler neck and tank I welded in a port to accept the gravity flow from the second tank.

The tire uses the old mounting hardware for the hub, and a trailer pin to attach it to the fuel rack, essentially becoming a 3rd leg support for the tank. It worked really good over the weekend 5 day trip. I left out with 33 gallons on board and when the main tank got down to around a 1/4 i would throw the handle and watch it fill me back up to full on the guage. Cargo room greatly increased as well as range

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Will add more river running pics soon - whole nother story in itself

[Burt4x4]

Awesome!
Post up pics of your gas cap re-do...curious

[RckyMntnKng]

Sure will Burt man! Left the Rig up north at a buddies for another trip out next weekend so will def snap some pics for you when I head back to get her.

We went to this place called Theodores Tree which was pretty wicked ponderosa pine, biggest ive seen in person....and also explored old ghost remnants of gold dredges

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Terrain was gnarly in spots - I used my winch A LOT this trip. (on others)

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Testing some Links to Trail Videos -

http://plus.google.com/u/0/106386680...ts/EXA2vEiMuds

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10638668...ts/DS6qGHC8Bif

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10638668...ts/Hj9V5Lhavop

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https://plus.google.com/u/0/10638668...ts/GiCDkNoUpVq