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I think it does good in the mud. Only trouble I've had is when playing in a pond...should have known better...lol. Yes it's heavy but it does good. Search for Code Red in the "slough" at the Bricks. That's the only truck to ever successfully defeat that mud hole.

@ dilligaf13...Next on the to-do list. Came close to getting water above the right tank already.

Mounted the deuce bed.

I was told the deuce bed weighs around 2K, so she will end up around 16K:shock:.

Ran her across the scales today. Weighs 13,990 lb with about 40 gallons of fuel.

I'm back in the states after a month overseas. I've got a few things done already...fixed the brakes, installed an EGT gauge, installed a delco 21si, mounted a set of 1400's, and mounted a new 18,000 lb warn winch. I've located a deuce cargo bed...just gotta go get it now. Paint to come...

First off thanks Danger Ranger for the advice, but I'm not thin skinned or upset. I'm just the type person that will defend himself and/or my decisions. Let me share how I came into ownership of this truck. Like I stated earlier my original plan was to build something lighter on 5 ton axles...

Thank you glad to be here.

Still have the tandem set-up and it can easily be put back. It's a mute point because I could care less of the value of my truck or yours.....because I have no intentions of selling it.

That's what I been thinking. And I started this thread under mods and hotrodding which includes bobbing....so i don't understand all the drama directed toward me. If it's all about keeping a truck original then you shouldn't see any of the older trucks with super singles or anything like that....

I didn't research how people are bobbing trucks so it may be common knowledge. But here's what I did. The front drive shafts in these trucks are roughly 12" longer than the driveshaft from the tcase to front rear axle of a tandem setup. I used the length of the front shaft to determine axle...

Plan was to put 5 ton gear under a chevy frame/body. Couldn't bring myself to strip and scrap the truck and also it runs like a top.

I think the axle was already weak or damaged. It also appears cast from a different metal than the others. It doesn't have the lathe marks around the splines either like the other 3.

Thanks. A week is a long time.....I also have managed to break an axle on one outting and get stuck on another (took a 250HP 25,000lb dualed out tractor to recover it).

Depends on camera angle which looks bigger...lol

Installed manual 3-way valve to give me the 2wd option.

All are 18.4-34's. It appears that way because the rears are R-2's. They have less sidewall rubber and the deep cleats make up the height difference. The rears actually measure out to be 1" taller.....in turn makes me have to spin the rears faster than normally to engage the front.

lol...if it makes you feel better it had sat in the bushes for the last 3 years....and for the 7 years prior to that it was used as a logging spot truck. Plan to put fresh paint and bed on her within the next month

Bear I'm sorry that saddens you but I only have trimmed the fenders. Everything else is stock and original. People scrap and parts these trucks out so I don't think I've done wrong by keeping her going.

wheels painted