[Project] wrecked

[phatfarmer2]

i dindt see and project section on this site so i figured this would fit best here, feel free to place it in a more appropriate section if needed.

this thread is on many onther forums so i just copied and pasted...




just picked up a 99 gmc sierra 1500 for $2800 today was a hell of an ebay find

its a 4.8 v8 4wd auto with 104,000 miles runs and drives. from the doors back it is mint, the front end and the frame ehh it needs some work lol.. airbags are blown and frame is bent, motor got pushed up into the firewall and such.

anyways my plans are to fix it and to make it the new daily/tow pig. Im gonna try to pull the frame back to spec, or throw a new frame clip on it or a used frame.. whatever works best... and since the front sheetmetal clip is ****ed a new clip will be in order, not sure which one... lol

on its way to my work.....


pics from the ebay auction






pics i took







hard to see but the frame is kinked right after the control arm..

[phatfarmer2]

engine cover broke since it got jammed under the cowl

[phatfarmer2]

nasty interior... ripped it all out and pressure washed it.. look at that filty carpet...




this is what it looks liek now...carpet is out and such.. gotta pull the rtest of the trim and pressure was it... the smell is still in there but im pretty sure i can get it out, by pulling everythign.. lol


front end off for the most part... frame is ****ed badly.. turns out we have a frame sittin at the shop from a tahoe which is the same frotn clip... so it looks liek ima be splicing in a donor clip..

[phatfarmer2]

ebay special

both airbags with control modual for $170 shipped... hell of a deal btw they are both charcol bags, so i will be more then likely chaingin the interior to charcol..





didnt wanna fight pulling the motor and trans out.. so lifting thr cab off was way easier, besides i had to pull it off anyhow...

going upp...


yup thats a cab



ouch....


hard to see but the cab mount and everything ahead of it is ****ed...


this is whats left...


this was a project in its self... had to dig this frame outta the weeds gas powered headge trims buzzed it down in about 40 minutes... best part was it were all pricker bushes... funnn

[phatfarmer2]

engine trans and transfer case out...













and dug the donor frame out.. and then hacked the front clip off..




and this is where im out now.. check it out for more progress.

[Beyond Static©]

Good find. I was driving today, and was about 10 feet away from a wreck where a guy in a nbs doing about 40 slammed into the back of another truck. Effed his front end up about like yours.

I bought a totaled dakota that was hit in the back pretty hard, and just bought a flood truck with perfect body panels I'm swapping over to the wreck truck.

[hornsfan10609]

That's a nice find, is it a LB? Are you gonna re-use the 4.8, or is a 5.3/6.0 swap in order? It looks relatively stripped down, luckily it doesn't have the 4.3, no power windows, possibly no power locks, floor 4wd shifter etc. Is the front of the 4wd system all effed up, are you just gonna convert it to 2wd? Lots of questions, but good luck with all of it. Also, for a clip, an 06-07 clip would kick ass.

[phatfarmer2]

Originally Posted by hornsfan10609

That's a nice find, is it a LB? Are you gonna re-use the 4.8, or is a 5.3/6.0 swap in order? It looks relatively stripped down, luckily it doesn't have the 4.3, no power windows, possibly no power locks, floor 4wd shifter etc. Is the front of the 4wd system all effed up, are you just gonna convert it to 2wd? Lots of questions, but good luck with all of it. Also, for a clip, an 06-07 clip would kick ass.

long bed yes. gonan keep the 4.8. i want to convert the interior to all power and leather. frotn 4wd is all fine. it might need a control arm, not sure untill i do an alignment, but i am going to keep it 4wd since i need it for the winter aroudn here, i tried a 2wd last winter in the snow and it was hell... i would really like to do an 06 clip but i dont wanna spend a rediculous amoutn of money on the whole truck.

BTW if you kwo anyone selling any parts that will help me out let me know! thanks!

[hornsfan10609]

Cool, got them all. Check craigslist and ebay, i've had good luck with those, however my truck has never been wrecked.

[CamaroGuy87132]

Good Deal man

Looks like it can be a real nice truck. Where in NJ are ya located?

[99-2door]

You better do some measuring on that Tahoe frame, right in front of the front body mount they are different. The tahoe frames narrows at a different spot than the truck frame does. 92-99 they were the same, but the 00-06 are a little different.

[phatfarmer2]

Originally Posted by CamaroGuy87132

Good Deal man

Looks like it can be a real nice truck. Where in NJ are ya located?

north jersey, sussex county

[phatfarmer2]

Originally Posted by 99-2door

You better do some measuring on that Tahoe frame, right in front of the front body mount they are different. The tahoe frames narrows at a different spot than the truck frame does. 92-99 they were the same, but the 00-06 are a little different.

hmmm ill have to check that out.

[Blaze5509]

And the sheet metal for an 03-06 shouldn't be that much more expensive for what you are getting out of it.

[phatfarmer2]

interior stripped...found out why it smelled so bad in there.. mouse was living in the dash at one point.. but everythgin is going to be cleaned and shoudl be good as new.. im probly gonna throw some sound deadener on the floor while im at it...

[BassBaller5]

http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/...do-ex-cab.html

should help with the charcoal swap!

http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/...lver-hood.html
^he has most of the truck available for sale... thats just one of the few things he put up.

[phatfarmer2]

front clip prepped to side inbetween the original rails just liek the factory..





i straightend the frame just where it needed to be, i didnt even **** with anything about a foot and a half away from the front cab mount. i removed the majority of the suspension, but left the rack, front axle, and sway bar there...



once i got the part of the frame good and straight, i hacked that bent to hell front clip off...


with an engine hoist i slid the new front clip right in to the frame rails... i thank GM for there frame buildign techinques... they built all there front frame clips all the same, so all i had to do was do a few cuts of the old clip and the new clip slides right into the boxed frame section.. wored out great...



welded in exactly as if it were factory.


then hit it up with some undercoat.. looks completly factory in person... hard to tell in the pics... however i did add one 1.5 inch plug weld to the out side of rail, just for some extra strength




tommorow i need to throw some of the suspension on it so that the frame can be made mobile.. and its my nieces birthday so i wont be doing a whole lot at all, maily just a few hours cleanign up, and making it mobile... so yeah keep an eye out for more progress...

[phatfarmer2]

clean up the shop, got the whole front suspension in.. only thing i didnt get in was the brake lines (need new ones anyways) shocks, calipers, and sway bar...

so its once again a rolling chassis, thats straight not bent to hell.. lol

[droppedss]

tag for a fellow s10forum member. Nice to see this making such quick progress. I spent part of my day at the shop and the gym. Although my friend drove is truck for the 1st time in 9 months today, so it was worth it, even with him dropping a 1/2 rachet to me...from the bed...I was under the truck...landed on my kneecap...damn...

[BassBaller5]

^nice to see some ///Relaxed guys out here!