1 What leaf spring sliders are, and how you can build them in your Home Fabrication Shop.
OL’ BLUE
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The name of the game in the offroad world is traction aid devices. Mud tires, beadlocks, and unlimited suspension articulation are cool, but without a traction device, you still only have 2 wheel drive even if your truck is 4×4. Even worse with a 2wd truck that doesn’t have a […]
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – 14 bolt Welded “locked” Differential ...
I’m always looking for cheap solutions. Those of you who know me aren’t surprised to hear me say that. I wanted some cheap lights that didn’t draw a lot of power, which means I need to find some LED lights. I had been keeping my eye out on all of […]
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – Cheapo LED Rock Lights from ...
Had my dad follow me out to his land, it had been a while since I was last out there so we made a family event out of it. It is ~55 miles out of town. That means in total I probably drove Ol’ Blue ~130 miles today with very […]
Ol’ Blue 71 Chevy – First Shakedown Run
I had been kicking this idea around for a long time about building “Leaf Spring Sliders”. Not many people do it, and there isn’t a whole lot of information online about it. I was finally at a point where I was good enough at fabrication and had enough time to […]
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – New front suspension with leaf ...
I have a serious dislike for drum brakes. They are an old design, overly complicated, and don’t work all that well. When off-road or in extreme conditions, they often get loaded up with mud/sand/ice/salt and become even less effective. So when I started building up ‘Ol Blue, they were one […]
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – Converting Chevy 14 bolt to ...
Finally scrounged up some time to build a proper high clearance rear bumper for Ol’ Blue.
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – Rear Tube Bumper Build
It is going to take me a bit to get caught up on the last couple years worth of modifications that I have done to this truck. The more I look back at these pictures, it makes me realize how far this truck has come. This post shows the beginning […]
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – Bringing home and assessing the ...
2 To bring in the new year, I finally knocked out a project that I had been planning out for a while now. The Chevy with its big motor and offroad oriented suspension can get a little hard to handle around corners. This post is about how I re-purposed a swaybar […]
Ol’ Blue ’71 Chevy – Rear Swaybar From Junkyard Parts
Ol’ Blue is my long term project I traded CrAzYbLaZe project for in the beginning of 2011. This page is an index of the projects and changes to it where you will be able to click links to mini project posts.