Crazy Talk Customs

Here's a pic of the 22" tucking up in the fenderwell setup to lay frame	Control arms sandblasted in house and ready for paint.
Rear half stripped down and the notches and rearend in place.	Control arms primed, painted and cleared high gloss black
	4-link mounts
Axle tubes that were cut off to let the wheels fit into the fenderwells.
A comparison shot of the stock 16" vs. the 22" Overall diameter is within a 1/2" so its basically like laying the truck out on a stock height tire.
	The inner dually wheels have been powder coated black so you wont see them though the outside wheels. And yes they still will have tires on them.
Parallel 4-link and panhard bar are mounted up.	Here's the new frame. It goes from the firewall all the way to the back and ties into the notches. It weights a 166 pounds. Is twelve feet long. Welded the full length through the frame, plated at each joint and boxed. The new frame is built like a Sherman tank. Since I still plan to tow with the truck I went a little overkill, And engineered it to be strong.
	Here's a pic of the body mount dropped down.
	Ahhh that's tucking just about right.
Not much clearance left for wheel wells. But I'll get something in there anyways	After a little trimming at the top the stock carpet fell right back into place.
The bed marked to be cut.	The section removed
	Fully welded and seam sealed
	The front wall reinstalled cut down. I did it this way so there was no seam at the front of the bed to weld. I still need to cut the outside fenders way up to get them to clear the wheels. Then cut the tops off of the dually flares and extend them up a few inches to clear.
Unfortunately after the body drop the stock hood would not fit anymore. Since I really don't like cowl hoods. I made new motor mounts to drop the motor down. The hood now fits back on, but just barely.
	New tranny crossmember that we built. It features a nice removable center section so pulling the trans is a piece of cake.
Not to bad if I say so myself	The nasty a$$ stock dash. The designers at GM just were not thinking when they made this dash. The dash itself is actually welded the full length across the top but bolted in on the sides. Had me scratching my head as to why you would bolt in something that can't be removed?
Here's a better spot for it. Sitting on my shop floor. Anybody want it? I have the complete dash. Vents, gauge cluster, bezel, top, glove box, etc.....	Either way I cut it out and will build something from scratch. Plans from the begging were to rewire the whole truck. I look forward to not having a rat nest of wires running everywhere.
New carrier bearing crossmember we made. See a pattern with all the cross members? There is a ton of planning that needs to go into doing a body drop. Tons of issues arise. I planned for as many of them as I could before I made one cut and everything is coming back together nicely.
The firewall is nasty. I plan to smooth it all out. What I was taking a picture of was the nasty brake booster bracket that is welded to the firewall.	Now it is missing, I have some plans up my sleeve that I can pretty honestly say that no one has ever done to this body style before.
Cut outs in the floor for driveshaft clearance.
New pieces bent up and welded into place. The stock carpet fits right over the top.	The truck back on the ground for the first time since the body drop was done. The motor is pulled and the cab is ready to come off the chassis.
	Here's a pic of what the truck looked like when I bought it. Running boards, Topper, Dumbo mirrors. The truck was so high in the air that I had to jack one end up at a time pull the wheels and then set it down on the 6 ton jack stands. Needless to say the picture next to this looks alot better.
The Frame is now fully boxed from front to back.	Transmission Tunnel needed to be raised for Clearance. Here it is raised and the corners have been radiused to blend it back in. It fits under the stock carpet.
Here's a better picture of the frame boxed in. I'll give most of the Credit to Branden (<-- Sucker) who spent the better part of two days filling and blending the edges until it was nice and smooth.	Tired motor is pulled and being sent out for machine work. Should come back with about 400 horse and 500 foot pounds of torque.
	Just finished the Watts linkage installation. The rearend gets 14" of travel but stays within a 1/16" throughout that full amount. In the picture it is setup in a single shear application, I have another bracket to tie into it and make it a double shear application. I don't want to run the risk of shearing a bolt going around a corner.
	The plan is to make a new trans tunnel on the firewall and smooth the whole thing out.
Rear bags are being mocked up finally and I should have the rolling chassis finished shortly.	Work on the rear tubs has begun. I hate fiberglass work and I don't like the shape of the dually flares so I'm going to cut them into a bunch of pieces make some stuff from scratch and play legos with putting them back together again. But it sure does tuck alot of wheel. 15" to be exact.
The start of the suicide rear doors.

	Do you get it?
Originally I over body dropped the bed, when I didn't like the way it looked we cut the whole thing out and made a new floor skeleton. We just need to sheet it out and it will be done.	And so it has begun, Chassis is finally almost finished. The whole thing is blasted and minus some filling and grinding it is ready for paint.

The rib cage