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Welcome ! and thanks for serving !!! Good people here , real helpful . It's a very adictive hobby , but it's too late you have one already . They multiply like rabbits . Enjoy them they are alot of fun and post up some pics of your progress !
Alot of thought would have to go into lowering it and keeping the 6X6 . It would be cheaper and easier to use the body off a parts truck and civilian big truck parts for the rest . Do the front like the red and white one with the rear like the blue one . A diesel school bus would be a cheap...
Find one some rock crawler robbed the axles out of and work with that . At least the remains won't get scrapped ! Maybe some civilian truck axles and go from there . Plenty of parts trucks to use , your going to modify most of it any way . Have at it , build what you want !
I have 2 gassers , the general cosensus seems to be the gassers are worth about a grand less than the diesels . With the low prices of trucks lately no telling what it's worth . See what they are asking and go from there . How does it run ,drive and most important stop ? Of course the old saying...
50+ year old gasser with 11x20's 5-5.5 mpg's , with 16x20's 6-7 mpg , pulling my shopvan trailer 3.5 mpg . Not good I know but a 50+ year old truck not bad . My trucks at work ( kenworth , freightliner , peterbilt ) 6-7 mpg ! Not very much improvement in 50 years .
I would cut the door on the side down to about 3 inches from the bottom so it could hold things in . Hinge , hasp or latch and some way to seal it and your in business ! I'm considering doing this to my passenger side tank because of rust also .
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