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While I am putting the 60 front together I decided I wanted to make a custom set of "Hummer" rims for "Off Road" use. After looking around I found 4 of them with the magnesium run flats so I jumped on them. These rims are starting to be the "in" thing with Rockcrawlers. These allow you to have "beadlocks" on the inside as well as the outside of the rim. With these you can run single digit air pressures and not have any problems with "breaking" a bead. The main thing that needs to be modified is the amount of "back spacing" that these have (about 7 in.) compared to the stock 8 lug rim which is 3 3/4 in. I plan on running about a 4 in. backspacing on them because that doesn't leave your front hub exposed to getting bashed by anything on the trail. I will post a pic of my rims after I finish painting them up below. Using these rims are killer when mounting a tire it took about 5 min. to mount a 39.5 Bogger on these and air them up. While I'm swapping in the 60 I'll be putting another 14 Bolt in the back "again" with a Detroit & 4.56 gears to match the front 60. For those of you who need the part # for the Detroit it's ( Part # 225S-10 ) they only make 1 kind so there is no mistake getting the right part. Here is a picture below of the Detroit before the install. They are real easy to install the just fit inside your "Open Diff.ONLY" replacing your spider gears. The way you can tell a "Open Diff" from a "Gov. Loc" (Limited Slip) is that there are 4 "round" pins every 90 degrees instead of 3 "round" pins every 120 degrees. .Anyone who "wheel's" will tell you a 14 Bolt is VERY HARD to break and can take A LOT of abuse.
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203-205 Doubler Adapter just arrived
doubler bolted to back of 203 range box
While the Blazer was on blocks getting the brakes all done the UPS man brings me my "Doubler" from ORD. I had been waiting a while for this to get delivered so I can start putting it together to install it. In the meantime the 203 was salvaged from my 4x4 parts collection. Before the "Doubler" was delivered I had my Turbo 350 trans. rebuilt with all TCI parts including a "Reverse Pattern Valve Body" for crisp shifts and better off road control. With the help of a friend (Paul) we put the 203 section of it together and come to a holding point because of the 205 modifications I got planned. I got a 32 spline front output conversion from "High Angle" to put in the 205 so I can run 1410 U-joints on both shafts (Yes I love BEEFY). I am going to change the front NP 205 "input" shaft to the famous 32 spline from the Turbo 400 Trans. This is going to be fun because you got to tear the 205 case apart and machine the "housing" because of the bearing differences between the two input shafts. While I'm in there I might as well go ahead and do the 205 "Twin Stick" conversion to control the axles apart from each other. 
Pro Street 350 all ready for doubler install
NP 205 case all gutted ready to machine