New guy from Bama

Been lurking on here for a while while I was looking for a dually. Traded my 2001 lifted GMC 2500 about a month and a half ago for a 1995 crew cab 3500 with a 6.5 in it. Since getting the truck I have had to fix about 1000 things. Upgraded the cooling system since it wanted to run hot every time I pulled my enclosed trailer. The entire audio system needed to be replaced, FlipScreen that was in it wouldnt do anything but turn on. Sub was blown and all the amps where bad. Components all rattled. AC had a new compressor, that leaked. Had to replace it since the guy charged it right before he met me it blew nice and cold that day. Next morning it cycled on and off like crazy, added some dye found the compressor bad. A ton of other small things wrong with it too.

I was told the truck layed frame when the fender wells where out of it and before the goose neck was installed. I removed the fender wells and wouldnt you know it, tie rods are hitting the frame. Removed the bed and cut the goose neck out and planned on putting a bigger notch in it. Go figure truck sits about 4" off the ground even with it removed. Decided to tube chassis the entire rear half while I had it apart. So rear frame rails are cut off. I mocked up the new rear sub frame on my shops table and have it all squared up and tacked, should be welding it up and smoothing it Monday. Also upgrading all the valves, it has some cheap ass 3/8 valves on it right now. Also upgrading it to a 8 valve setup from the 4 valve setup. Have a new Air-Zenith compressor going in it and a stainless tank. Mounting everything under the bed in place of the spare tire.

It had a bag over leaf setup so I am building a new custom triangular 4 link for it and moving the bags to right behind the axel. Going to do a custom setup for the fuel tank also and building a new tubular bridge with a goose neck adapter. At some point I would like to add some 19s, shave it, and repaint it, Im not a big fan of graphics.

Anyways here is some pics of it, I will get a few more pics of it posted up Monday when I start getting the new frame rails in.

awesome man!! great project. i look forward to more pics and following the rebuild.

looks like a pretty decent truck to start with despite all the little problems...better than what mine turned into....i drove mine home with a 454 static drop in 16s....2 months later and several thousand dollars it laid rocker on 22s with an LS motor...none of which was planned till i was on the ride home with it...but oh well it happens...im gonna keep my eyes on this one it has extreme potential

I got it mainly to pull my stock suspension Nitrous camaro and enclosed with. So far it has been great but I just wasn't happy with the way alot of the things were done on it. Originally I wanted to do 22s on it but now I believe I will leave the 16s on it for a while and eventually do some 19"s. I will get some pics of the original setup up in a few days as well as what I have built for it.

Welcome to the site.

Where in AL are you from?

I'm about 20 min north of birmingham.

Good looking truck and welcome to the site.

I made a projects thread here:

welcome nice dually