Slammed mini 1 ton

[riverratt23]

Ill try to make the story kinda short and sweet on my 91 s10. I originally bought the truck to drive back and forth to work but that only lasted for 1 trip before the custom bug bit pretty hard. It went through several phases but it was bagged on 18s and was starting to look decent.


While at layed out at the park me and a buddy decided that my truck was kinda bland and needed something to stand out and a dually idea was thrown out at some point, I kinda liked the idea but knew I had to go at it in in kinda a big way.

So we started with the intentions of putting a small block in and a 1 ton rearend. so I dug up a sterling 10 1/4" out of a 87 f 350 and had Little shop of horrors narrow it down for me


Next Moser built me a set of custom axle shafts to fill it with and Bad habits customs built a parallel 4 link for it. But I had forgot about the front end and in the end no good choices could be made except having adaptors made.

Then as the build progressed a little at a time changes were made aafter talking with some folks at 8 Lug we decided the small block wouldnt cut it so I originally found a olds 350 diesel but soon after realized it would be a waste of time and effort to use it because of the inherit problems they have so I was on the search again when I found my Mercedes Benz OM 617 turbo diesel that we are working on now.



Since we were doing a motor swap anyhow I decided to tear it down and go ahead and boddy drop it also so right now its in the process of having a frame built for the sfbd. Ive been picking up parts since then but life did get in the way for a bit, my wife and I bought our house and built a new shop for me also we built her a bagged hearse but now the dually is getting worked on again slowly. Here is how it looked before we tore it back down for the body drop and a few parts Ive picked up, hopefully it wont be to long before I can start making more progress on it.




48 coronet dash


and the hopes

[bagddime]

Wow. Different but looks good

[808Hawaiian808]

love the rear bumper idea

[Hogs Fan]

I like it

[s10blaza1]

Wow, way to be different! Subscribing!

[deeznutz]

Woooo! Good shit man!

[layinbody31]

Sweet! What wheels do you plan to run? 19s?

[BDT00Buckshot]

Awesome sub'd!!

[neo71665]

I like it.

I always wanted a dually 4 door first gen blazer but lifted on air.

[riverratt23]

Thanks guys. Its got a long ways to go but Im glad to finally atleast be working on it again. The wheels im shooting for a Tn wheel and tire direct bolt on 19s figure they should look pretty decent in there. I also forgot to metion that the bags are all gone now when it goes back together itll be on juice.

[AJ]

Welcome to the forum man and thanks again for the opportunity to do your render, I will def. be watching this thread for updates on the build!

[riverratt23]

Thanks AJ still uper impressed with how it came out hopefully wont be to long and Ill have it looking half as good as ya made it.

[dagreenmonster]

awesome build, subscribing

[littledevil4802]

Can you get some clearance shots of the gap between the wheel and the rear frame.


Should turn out good.I'll be watching this.



Also can you throw up some pics of your wifes ride?

[94soontobeslammed]

few questions... what is the weight of the motor and how do you plan on supporting it? as i have looked into the diesel swap only with a 4bt only they weight close to 745lb just curious on some ideas on how to handle the weight as mine is currently a 2.2

but rendering is sick id love for mine to look like that some day

[cruisinlows10]

I like it all except the stack through the bed.

[Hogs Fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by cruisinlows10

I like it all except the stack through the bed.

yeah me too.... i'd have to have dual stacks



found this on my phone this morning but i had to come back and take another look on the computer. good shit maynard!

[Gelsinger]

Mmmm.. i love the duallied first gens... Good job man

[riverratt23]

Quote: Originally Posted by littledevil4802

Can you get some clearance shots of the gap between the wheel and the rear frame.


Should turn out good.I'll be watching this.



Also can you throw up some pics of your wifes ride?

this was before we started the sfbd we are completely redoing th eback end of the frame at the time of these pics it actually only had 1/4" clearence from the inside tires to the frame. and heres some of the wifes





its what ive been showing for a bit now itll be back at showfest again here in a few weeks

[riverratt23]

Quote: Originally Posted by 94soontobeslammed

few questions... what is the weight of the motor and how do you plan on supporting it? as i have looked into the diesel swap only with a 4bt only they weight close to 745lb just curious on some ideas on how to handle the weight as mine is currently a 2.2

but rendering is sick id love for mine to look like that some day

It wieghs in at about 600 or so its actually not much more than a small block when i started cleaning mine up i was amazed at the number of aluminum parts the mercedes used on it.

Thanks on the rendering Aj at No Life did a heck of a job on it

[littledevil4802]

thanks man. That hearse is pretty badass

[riverratt23]

No problem when I did the math for narowing the axle I had forgot to add in for tires so that helped a lil in my decision to go ahed and body drop it

[spazattack]

wow this is badass, I'll be following

[Drain Bamaged]

Quote: Originally Posted by neo71665

I like it.

I always wanted a dually 4 door first gen blazer but lifted on air.

See me I have wanted to do a dually second Gen blazer or more correctly stated my 2001 GMC Jimmy 4x4 but I can't figure the rear fenders as I am not a body guy

[neo71665]

Quote: Originally Posted by cruisinlows10

I like it all except the stack through the bed.

Damn you, didn't even notice that on my phone but yeah, cool truck ruined by gay stack.

[neo71665]

Quote: Originally Posted by Drain Bamaged

See me I have wanted to do a dually second Gen blazer or more correctly stated my 2001 GMC Jimmy 4x4 but I can't figure the rear fenders as I am not a body guy

I have a set of first gen dually fenders in the shed from way back when phantom duallys were cool. Swapped that one over to a drag truck and moved to tires inwards. Just can't do it to my 2 door unless I jack it up more than I want. Seen too many k5 duallys and they don't look right.

[Lawdog1911]

Truck looks awesome, great concept.

These fenders would look better I think than the fullsize looking ones.

These are off a gen one Dime and I can't seem to find anymore like them anywhere.

[riverratt23]

Nice ive seena few set of those floating around on craigslist the last few years. I just like the squared off ones on the square body. I have a spare bed so we are goin to try and make them out of it and see how that goes.

[neo71665]

Ya thought about building foam up off the fender in the shape you want then make the fenders out of fiberglass?


I been picking up scraps of foam to do that for baja style rear fenders on my blazer.

[Lawdog1911]

Quote: Originally Posted by riverratt23

Nice ive seena few set of those floating around on craigslist the last few years. I just like the squared off ones on the square body. I have a spare bed so we are goin to try and make them out of it and see how that goes.

Yeah, I can see where the squared ones would flow better with the body. I'll keep watching this one.

[riverratt23]

Quote: Originally Posted by neo71665

Ya thought about building foam up off the fender in the shape you want then make the fenders out of fiberglass?


I been picking up scraps of foam to do that for baja style rear fenders on my blazer.

Thats my back up plan lol I would really rahter have sheetmetal fenders but if it ends up being more than I can do then fiberglass will work

[90blueS10]

I don't mind the stack. Its not gaudy and donkey dick and hes cant run it out the back. So i vote stack > dumped

[Corey7733]

this is sickk! keep it up. cant wait to see the finished product

[riverratt23]

Quote: Originally Posted by 90blueS10

I don't mind the stack. Its not gaudy and donkey dick and hes cant run it out the back. So i vote stack > dumped

That was my thinking on the stack myself the deisel will be a smoker so I really didnt want it dumped underneath the truck

[riverratt23]

Wow a year later and I remember this thread lol honestly the truck is still moving along slow at this point but its almost to a spot that I can show it again. Im really hoping to have it at showfest this year but its still in the air at this point. But we have started stripping the cab finally and I got my juice setup in from Hoppos custom suspension works. Hopefully wont be long and I can show off some pics of the truck but for now here is the hydro setup Ill be running

[scrubz]

interesting

[RQCustoms]

what made you switch from air to juice?? nothing wrong with juice. just curious.

[Gimp]

do like dually swap

[Drain Bamaged]

Still like it but don't understand how juice don't give you a stiff ride

[heeter_33]

Awesome build, stoked to see more.

[bigpokie]

Such a unique idea ! Im digging the rendering but it needs dual stacks, and im not a fan of them at all. But do the duals for the symmetry of the truck

[riverratt23]

Quote: Originally Posted by RQCustoms

what made you switch from air to juice?? nothing wrong with juice. just curious.

I actually have a friend with a juiced regal and I loved riding in it and got to talking with some old school hydro guys on how to set it up for ride instead of hopping so I wanted to try my hand at it.

[riverratt23]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigpokie

Such a unique idea ! Im digging the rendering but it needs dual stacks, and im not a fan of them at all. But do the duals for the symmetry of the truck

Thanks you know the funny part is a friend and myself were talking about dual stacks just yesterday so its a fairly good possiblity of that happening.

[riverratt]

Got the mercedes out and started cleaning it up getting ready for it to go into the truck. Got alot of stuff took off that i wont need like the clutch fan ac lines and alot of random brackets.