Smash2.0 K5 resurrection

I’m using plain ole -3an braided brake hoses. I like the covered stainless hose so I made my own with heavy 3-1 clear shrink tube. Finish welded the skidplate and put some 2” dimpled holes in it.
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Brake hoses follow the limit straps and they will protect them from trail trash. Velcro strapping hold the hoses to the straps and a clip with a spring pull it up and back to keep it in place. I’m putting in a cutting brake handle so there is a brake hose on each side. Threw the hood on temporarily to remind me it’s a truck
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Snapped a drivers side leaf spring in half yesterday hard braking in traffic. Made a huge bang and I ducked off into a parking lot to see what’s up. 2 leaves snapped across and the main leaf having this wild diagonal break. It’s sitting on the bumpstops and I was able to drive her home. I’m going to drive it back streets to the shop on Monday and fix up my daily driven 87 one ton Suburban.
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In a previous picture there is a small rectangular pan upside down on the floor. I get these from the restraint supply store and cut them up and weld them in for all kinds of stuff. In this case I needed more room for a fan and cooler underneath. Also mounted the Gearwerx oil pump for the Magnum under drive. Put some bumpstops on the transfer case crossmember to support the skidplate and a short strap to help with drivetrain wrap from the 182 to 1 final crawl ratio.
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JayMcJay said:
I was scoping that myself......love it.
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They also have lids for some of these pans at restaurant supply stores( the pans are sometimes thicker gauge) so you could cut out holes in the floor and make stash spots for things like recovery gear. Drill weep holes in the bottom of them so theybgg do not turn into swimming pools and small hinges for the lids if you want. A little bit of weather strip will keep them from making rattling together. Here is an example of a YJ I stretched and some stash spaces
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Vent hoses from the diffs heading up the firewall to a catch can that’s not there yet. ARB hose routed up and will go into the cab and to a manual air switch. More clips to hold the brake lines back at the knuckles to keep them out of the shocks. Lower shock tabs on the axle. Made up the hydraulic hoses and routed them. Looks like I’m going to enlarge the frame cutouts for the steering as well, just not happy with the clearances.
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Have enough room for a panel mount air ,water or electricity. I’m thinking that I might do an air connector in the front and each rear wheel well so maybe not that. I do have an idea for a water tank and that would make a good fill point. Electricity would be a water proof panel mount 12 volt or a 115 volt for a battery tender.
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Noice. As we've discussed, I have plans to add a pump, reservoir and cooler to the one eventually going into my G506.
 
Modified the radiator to use a radiator cap surge tank stlyle system. The fans are from a 99 ford windstar van modified to fit. Also with the tilt front clip I’m going to French in some more little pans for jeep hood latches. And I have an oil accumulator to plumb into the oiling system.
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Studying my air intake system and I think that a Helmholtz resonator would benefit the off idle and lower rpm powerband. Since I’m running a 5,3 bottom end and cathedral port heads my baseline modeling will be made from the stock intake tube on my wife’s 06 Escalade with a 6.0 max.
 
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The surge tank became a complicated little tank. I put a water fill next to the fuel filler and I’m going to gave on-board pressurized non-potable water. The oil acccumulator took up residence under the floor. I’m going to put in some tube so rocks can’t be mean to it.
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Nutserts everywhere ! I’m trying to eliminate all the self tapping screws that hold anything in the Blazer. If it didn’t get a nutsert then it got drilled and tapped and if it didn’t get that it got drilled and a nut welded into a hole. Reaching into spaces and having your hands cut with the tips of self tapping screws sucks. Using one socket or one wrench to take stuff apart is great.
Making all the brackets to hold the stuff into place like the surge tank, steering reservoir, and holding hoses in place so they don’t get chafed or cut through. Mounted the heater to the firewall. Cruising through all the plumbing now.
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DrSmash said:
Nutserts everywhere ! I’m trying to eliminate all the self tapping screws that hold anything in the Blazer. If it didn’t get a nutsert then it got drilled and tapped and if it didn’t get that it got drilled and a nut welded into a hole. Reaching into spaces and having your hands cut with the tips of self tapping screws sucks. Using one socket or one wrench to take stuff apart is great.
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I do the same, not much more effort in the first place. No loose nuts or washer to loose, like OEM. Standardize on a few sizes and use same head style for minimal tools needed.

And I seem to weld all the unused holes shut.
 
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