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Offline schmarl

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86 gmc in texas
« on: November 16, 2014, 10:30:02 am »
 I'm a Texas boy working with a short wide that was bone stock when i got it in march.  Ive done a 5-5 djm drop with upper and lower a arms and drop springs with a flip kit in the back and calmax shocks all around.  Then I went to the local bad rim shop and ordered some custom Adventus avs-3 cut for the offset needed on these trucks.  I wanted some light weight wheels that no one else has and these are them  they weigh about 30lbs each.  Any input is more than welcome
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 12:16:34 pm »
Looks great!  Where are you in TX?  I have the same drop kit sitting in my garage just waiting to be installed on my 81 stepside.
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2014, 12:33:45 pm »
Welcome from NW Indiana, nice choice of wheels!
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2014, 09:14:01 pm »
Welcome from WV!! Vary nice truck!!!!! :D


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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2014, 02:55:04 am »
Quote from: jameyb on November 16, 2014, 12:16:34 pm
Looks great!  Where are you in TX?  I have the same drop kit sitting in my garage just waiting to be installed on my 81 stepside.

I'm in spring. North of Houston. 
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2014, 11:48:12 pm »
welcome from maryland. not being mean or trying to be a smart butt, but swb stands for standard wheel base (ocd ;))
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2014, 01:54:34 am »
Welcome from the north in Dallas!! 
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2014, 12:51:19 pm »
Howdy and welcome from Kansas, schmarl! 


Quote from: Irish_Alley on November 18, 2014, 11:48:12 pm
not being mean or trying to be a smart butt, but swb stands for standard wheel base (ocd ;))
Back in the day, at least in the Texas Autotraders and classifieds I read; SWB was short wide bed, SNB was short narrow bed (short stepside), LWB was long wide bed and then LNB for long narrow bed (long stepside)... That was also a time when most pickup trucks were regular cab/standard cab...
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Re: 86 gmc in texas
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2014, 02:27:49 pm »
jason i was raised around the same info that swb was short wheel base or short wide bed, wasnt until i started looking for parts and doing work that when i first saw standard wheel base. and started to think about it. how can you have a short and a long but nothing in the middle? and the acronym swb is so wildly used it seamed you get a different answer every time you turn around. then you have manual trans or aka standard because they were standard equipment. but w e all know what one mean when someone says swb or short wide. tell you the truth as much as i want to say im right i dont have evidence to back it up or prove wrong. so i kind of wish someone will probe me wrong or right
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