Mudslut

[Mudslut]

Well here are some pics of the old girl from the beginning.
First pic I took of her when I got it home in the summer of 2000.

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About 4 months after I purchased it I wanted to put a lift in it so I took it down to the local spring shop and had them do a 3 inch lift on it. What I got was blocks and new mains. (pretty shitty I know now) But at the time it seemed so big and my knowledge of lift kits was pretty sad. I also wanted to replace my 31" stockers to a nice mud tire so I called around and found the new on the market Interco's, not knowing that these werent the best offroad tire out there. So because they looked like a cool tire I bought a set of 35x12.5x15's. Here's a pic with the 3" lift and interco's.

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As time went on I got fed up with the tires always rubbing on corners and decided to spring the $100 for a 3" body lift. Tim and I did this task on a weekend.

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Another with 6" of lift and a new Surco universal tire carrier.

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So it came a time where of coarse I wanted to go bigger so I purchased a set of 4" extended shackles and hangers and had my buddy next door help me put them on. This was a three day ordeal as it was just the two of us. I also had purchase 6 Bosch offroad lights for the tire carrier. These lights sucked ass!

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After the extended shackles and hangers were done I wanted to fill in those wheel wells. Only problem was I needed to get another 3" done to the suspension to fit 38's comfortably so I took it to a different spring shop had them remove the blocks and make me new spring packs. By this time I was to broke to be buying new 38" tires so I managed to find a set of used 38x14.5x15 super swampers in the buy and sell.

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Time went on and I finally had saved up enough money to but a new set of tires and decided to go with the 38.5x14.5x15 Mickey Thompson Baja Claws. This was by far the best investment I had made. These tires have a great tread pattern and are great for offroad.


I also bought a new set of pro comp offroad lights to replace the crappy bosch ones. Another good investment.

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So after running the 38's for about a year and loving them I still wanted the truck to be bigger (GBOFO) so I decided to upgrade to 46" tires. Now because of the size I new that my 1/2 ton running gear would not do the trick for 46x19.5 tires. The 9.25 and 44 were pulled and I had a set of 60's custom built with all the fixings including detroit lockers and 5.82 gears. This was a long and expensive project. Here are some pics of the build.

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And here it is with her beautiful new 46" Mickey Thompson Baja Claws.

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Well after she got finished at the shop I towed the beast three hours for a local chapter meet and about an hour into playing carnage....... Now the nice thing is my mechanic is at fault and is paying for all the damage done including the towing. So as of right now it is sitting at my inlaws waiting to come back down where I live to get fixed. Gotta love this sport!!!

[Dodgeboy426]

LOL, I still love the slut though!

[mudqueen]

it was a GREAT 45 minutes dave. and it made us all humble. we were truly not worthy in the presence
of the mud slut. even the dogs worshipped her.

it is an awesome truck you built dave. but i think if you went any bigger dana would burry you in it.