This is fantastic, we picked up a Trooper a year ago for the same reason. The J20 wouldn't fit enough car seats! One thing that has been driving me nuts about it is the ifs, this is going to help a lot in planning the solid swap though I suspect I'll be taming it down a bit :D
That’s great! To be fair I haven’t driven much less off-roaded with the Trooper IFS, but knew that it wasn’t up to the 40’s so here we are. I will be getting back onto the front suspension soon.
I can’t speak to that directly as I cut the factory frame off, but I have done 10 or so LS swaps and I am confident you can get an oil pan on that engine that will allow it to fit.
Thanks a bunch, I was more more worried about that trans going under there swapping entire drive train under. We'll I guess worse case, I'll follow your videos! Thanks man!!
This build is off to a hell of a start. Nice work. These videos need more views!
Thank you! More progress coming soon, feel free to share!
Love it!
Thanks! More to come
Learning a lot from you. I'm stealing all of it.
This is fantastic, we picked up a Trooper a year ago for the same reason. The J20 wouldn't fit enough car seats! One thing that has been driving me nuts about it is the ifs, this is going to help a lot in planning the solid swap though I suspect I'll be taming it down a bit :D
That’s great! To be fair I haven’t driven much less off-roaded with the Trooper IFS, but knew that it wasn’t up to the 40’s so here we are. I will be getting back onto the front suspension soon.
What kind of sawzall blade did you use for that frame cut ?
I have a stock 90 Trooper with the 2.8, I picked up a 2010 Silverado with the 5.3. So you think everything will fit under there pre lift?
I can’t speak to that directly as I cut the factory frame off, but I have done 10 or so LS swaps and I am confident you can get an oil pan on that engine that will allow it to fit.
Thanks a bunch, I was more more worried about that trans going under there swapping entire drive train under. We'll I guess worse case, I'll follow your videos! Thanks man!!
nice bro.. what axle this ?
The axles are from a 2005+ Super Duty, the front is a Dana 60 and the rear is a Sterling 10.5”
Little hard to start
Runs like a haunted shit house for awhile till she warms up...