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Project Cumdumpster

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#1 ·
My buddy and I just got done building up his '05 CTD. I put my Scrambler project on hold for a month so we could get this nailed out by Memorial weekend at the dunes, but we got screwed by Deaver and didn't get the rear leafs in time. Anyway, it's together now so here are some pics. I did all the custom design and fab, he did the other stuff like teardown and all that sh1t.

He had a nicely built '01 Sierra but got sick of blowing out the front end, didn't wanna solid axle it no matter how hard I tried to convince him, so he went for the upgrade. His old truck:


He got an '05 Ram 2500 CTD back in August, 5 days later it was up at the dunes for Labor Day weekend. It did great for a stocker but who wants a stock truck? He wanted to be able to haul across the dunes effortlessly at 60+mph and I wanted to make it happen. I talked him into a long travel suspension and 37s but he still wanted bigger. Then I found a great deal on some 40x13.5R20 XTerrains on here and it's been downhill ever since. Here's the specs:

-12" lift, all custom
-40" XTerrains on 20x10 KMC Diesels
-10" Full Throttle Coils, 12" travel Fox remote resi shocks, custom longarms and bracketry by BBA Fabworks
-8" Deaver leafs, 2" extended shackles, 14" travel Fox remote resi shocks, traction bar
-Axle trusses front and rear
-Drop pitman arm and sector shaft brace
-Custom trac bar and brackets
-Clocked t-case, new driveshafts, etc.
-A bunch of other little crap here and there

He's got a massive tuner, FASS, intake, stacks, and some other mods so it turns the 40s really well but it'll still get regeared before too long. It'd still blow most trucks out of the water.

We started on it the first weekend of May, got it on the road last Sunday.

How she sat the first afternoon


Stock coil next to new one and blingin shock


Then I figured I might as well blow a couple holes in the frame and start adding some reinforcement plates




Built up some adjustable UCA brackets out of 3/16" box and 1/4" plate




Then I had a cool picture in my head for the LCAs and tying everything together. Obviously beefiness is priority #1 but I can't just leave it looking plain either. I think the frame brackets turned out :rock:









I figure with an 8000 lb truck coming down on the front end some more reinforcement wouldn't hurt, and it makes it look a lot cleaner





The pics don't do it justice so far but oh well.
 
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#40 ·
you guys still all go to that house in pentwater when you come to silver lake? some awesome fab work..now get yours done.
 
#45 ·
Yep Carl is a buddy of ours. The owner of the PORN truck and now the CTD lives about 30 seconds from Carl's dad.
 
#51 ·
Looks damn good . . .

You gonna be in the dunes on the 4th?
I'll be there with the truck in my avatar. We'll have to line up a time or two.

(my suspension might be a limiting factor, lol)
 
#52 ·
Nope not on the 4th but we'll be there Labor Day and at some point before then.
 
#55 ·
After a week in California seeing half the trucks on the road with 8"+ store-bought lifts, 8 shocks, enough chrome to outfit a Peterbilt, and ultra-bling wheels I like the looks of the fab work - it looks like it designed and built to be used, while looking good too.

I'm not enough of a mechanic to know, but it looks well thought-out, planned for use, and very well executed with great craftsmanship. I'll give it a 10. :thumb:
 
#57 ·
Thanks a lot man, that was the ultimate goal of this build. There are a million kits available for these trucks but I'm not overly impressed with any of them and wanted to build him something better. Making it work is easy but I like taking the extra step to make it pretty too. I'll make sure to update this thread when we get some action shots.

looks awsome! alright when ya wana redue my front suspesion bc my short arms suck! lol
Sure I'd do it, but the labor ain't gonna be as cheap as it was for this guy. I won't have time for quite a while though, between my rig and a couple other potential projects I've got rolling in I'm gonna be swamped through the end of the year. Free time is overrated.
 
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