Fair warning, this build is going to be pretty tame by Pirate standards. My goal is to build a useful, relatively practical, comfortable, capable, bomb-proof working truck. This isn't just a toy, and it will never ride to the trail on a hauler. It needs to be able to pull a trailer, skid logs, haul firewood, be reasonably pleasant, comfortable, and legal to drive, durable, relatively cheap and easy to maintain using off-the-shelf parts where possible, and as capable off-road as I can make it while sticking to those requirements. In other words, a truck that may not be the best at any one thing, but that can serve many different purposes. The "if you can only own one truck" truck. If you're looking for a linked, boatsided, tube-chassis truggy with welded diffs, half doors, no windows, and a fuel cell where the bed used to be, you might as well keep looking 'cause this ain't gonna be that. Really, it's a pretty plain, simple old school build in a lot of ways, but that's what I want. Also, you can probably fairly accuse me of building a cream-puff, but after years of running hashed, tweaked, body-falling-off-the-frame-rusty old junk, I'm sick of it. Maybe I'm getting old, but I want to wheel in something nice, comfortable, and solid. With working fawking air.
So enough with the disclaimer bullshit; here's what I started with:
It's a '78 SRW K30 w/ 400/TH400/NP203/14-bolt/D60 with no options and 7,100 miles on the clock. It runs and drives literally like new and everything on it works (pump, generator, rollers, spotlights, etc...).
So enough with the disclaimer bullshit; here's what I started with:
It's a '78 SRW K30 w/ 400/TH400/NP203/14-bolt/D60 with no options and 7,100 miles on the clock. It runs and drives literally like new and everything on it works (pump, generator, rollers, spotlights, etc...).