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Old 03-18-2017, 08:40 PM
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I was thinking of that myself, I'm waiting to see. When I was younger my foster dad had a 2 door zr2 with 32's on it... It took up most of his rear view but I didn't mind it too bad... But I like my mirrors too so who knows lol. But there a plate you can get that lowers it by about 2-3"... I seen a forum where someone actually cut it off and re welded it lower aswell, sat it right on the bumber and relocated his plate to beside the wheel on the carrier. The one problem I have now is that the back window isn't able to open while the carrier is shut
 
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Old 03-18-2017, 08:42 PM
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Forgot to say tho that u can fit the small Jerry can in behind the tire carrier... I'll be getting that out of storage to lol.
 
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Old 03-19-2017, 03:01 PM
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So I stopped by storage and got my spare tire out, I threw on one of my summers on the carrier for the time being until I get the spare cleaned up. I took a pic too if the view from between the two front seats so you can get an idea of the view. Hopefully this will help people in the future if they are having a hard time deciding. As for the Jerry can, the smallest I have is 2.5 gallon, and it's too big for the spot I thought it would go, right in the middle behind the tire on the carrier. But might make a bracket to mound on the carrier to strap it or wait until I get my roof rack
 
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Looks really good!

Do you have any pictures of your reinforcements?
 
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Old 03-19-2017, 05:09 PM
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I do not sorry, I took pictures of the plates before hand, for the two outer most bolts, I was able to go through the side wall and the body reinforcement on the inside of the truck.for the two middle bolts is where I put the reinforcement. Let me tell you now that that was the hardest and bigger pain ever! For the two bolts above and below I did not use any reinforcement. There was on the other hand a couple of pictures of reinforcement for those two bolts on another fellow members pictures of his work. I can't remember whom it was but if you search tire carrier it'll be at the top of the list.
 
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Old 03-20-2017, 02:14 PM
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Looks good.
 
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Old 03-22-2017, 06:35 PM
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Looks good.

Specs on the Blazer? (Tire size/lift? I noticed those are 2wd steelies)
 

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Old 03-22-2017, 07:09 PM
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I got 235/75/15's all the way around. Goodyear Wrangler druratrac's for winters, and summer are still the crappy motormaster that came with them when I bout it on the American racing rims that I have a safe my temporary​ spare. I will be putting my factory spare on at some point. So far there are no mods done, all stock. Slight torsion adjustment but that's all... She's all looks for now . Since I put the tire carrier on the back I've notice she's sagging so I'm going to be looking into 2" blocks for the rears and maybe swapping out the torsion keys. 2" body lift at some point and maybe a 3" suspension in the future. But it's a low budget build so we will see what's on sale when I got cash kinda thing lol
 
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Old 03-22-2017, 07:11 PM
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But I got the S10 offsets for 40$ Cdn for my winters. And forgot to mention that I'm looking at some Cooper cobras for summers.
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Old 03-22-2017, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DonL
I'm going to be looking into 2" blocks for the rears and maybe swapping out the torsion keys. 2" body lift at some point and maybe a 3" suspension in the future.
Blocks lower these trucks. Factory spring under setup.

It's not recommended to go beyond a 1.5" to 2" crank on the IFS (most likely need new upper control arms at that point).
 

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