[Seven©]

Or a P4XL!

[tommy]

that p4xl almost looks like the cxt made by international

[Seven©]

It's Freightliner's version of the International.

[sea_chicken1]

I Plan on picking up a beater truck for shtf that I only use for hunting and such so when I get everything I want put together for it I dont get unwanted attention.

[Big Tool]

Hey KR. If this is your daily driver than you would want to keep the street tires on it to save fuel and tire noise driving to work everyday.

I didn't see the push buttons for 4wd so i'm assuming it's a 2wd??? Unless it has the floor shifter??

If so than what you need to do is pick up a cheap set of chevrolet rims off ebay. Then mount a good Mud tire on the rims and keep them on standby. When shtf just swap the back tires out and use the current tires for spares.

Don't go too big on the tire diameter. 32" and under. You don't have a whole lot of motor to spare and the bigger tires will really slow you down. Also don't get a real wide tire. Something in the 8-10" range will dig better and add less weight.

Won't cost you too much and would provide a great improvement in the traction department.


I would also get a camper top to put on the back also. Makes for a great emergency shelter that you can stretch out in and get a good nights sleep.

The added weight of the camper shell would also help out with rear end traction.


If you did the camper top you might want to take a look at the Bed Rugs. Seemed like a horrible concept unil I bought my new tundra which already had one installed. I love it. It keeps all my shooting gear from sliding around and is actually very comfortable to lay on. BedRug


At all times you need to have a jack and tire iron. Don't count on the dinky thing that comes with the truck.





As far as items/parts you may need I would highly suggest getting a spare fuel pump. The 00-07 model chevys were notorious for fuel pumps failing. I had one fail on my 00 gmc 3/4 ton, and my dad had one fail on his 02 avalanche, and another on his 04 avalanche.

It will stop a fine running truck in it's tracks. You will also need a Haynes Repair manual or GM shop manual.

[ArkansasHunter]

Thank You for posting my dream truck LOL !!! I would love to have one of these and who knows I might win the Lottery and get one LOL

[tommy]

that book safe you have makes the book look really old and valuable if it was me i would put a fake bible cover over it most people who look inside a car and sees a bible most probably won't even think about breakin into it because most bible toters don't have much of anything to steal in their cars. i would take the gun off the back seat too because anyone who sees a gun case is gonna go google eys over it and wanna break into it.i would put the gun up in a over head faulse roof something that you can just reach up pull down and grab the gun. as for as the safe goes thats fine but how easy is it to get open in a hurry? and why keep the vest in a safe why not wear it. i have never seen a criminal give someone time to open up their safe pull out a bullet proof vest and put it on .and get rid of tem tools in the back seat it loks like you got the whole sears craftmans set in there. tools are a gold mine to crackheads pawnshops buy them up like crazy thats a thief magnet.

as for as the tires i would go small and widelike under 32" and go as wide as you can get them . the reason i say go wide is a skinny tire will dig you all the way to china where as a fat wide tire will not dig as much and will have a wider foot print . if you ride offroad in the mud you'll know what i'm talkin about them skinny tires just keep diggin and if they don't hit bottom they will surely have your truck sitting on it's frame and the tires just spinning in the air.now a wide tire will have more of a footprint and not sink or cut into the ground as much.

[sea_chicken1]

Quote:       Originally Posted by ArkansasHunter

Thank You for posting my dream truck LOL !!! I would love to have one of these and who knows I might win the Lottery and get one LOL

I sure as hell wouldent want t get rammed by that thin if shtf.

[tommy]

it has more of a brinks or well fargo security truck than a picku truck

[sea_chicken1]

I am looking for a 95 to 97 powerstroke right now for a hunting/bugout truck. I have driven many diesels in the past working construction and I love the way they sound and ride. You can put a stupid amount of miles on them before a rebuild and diesel stores longer than gas, plus you can ram shit with your family inside and feel secure.

[srt 10 jimbo]

Have a Ram Srt 10, If I have to get out of Dodge. I'm gonna do it really fast.

[Rex in OTZ]

As a youngster living rural I was amazed at the Fall deer hunters and ther persuit to bury ther trucks to the axel some are still perfecting ther form to this day!
Terrain dictates the vehicle choice Second is the Nut behind the wheel, in a social disturbance type situation the road systems will mostlikely be a bad choice because of ambushes and check points and the very real possibility of confiscating yer....ahhh.....sh-tuff?
If ya live rural, you'd be wise to look what the farmers drive, they go crosscountry all the time, and more specificly in that area, they learned through the school of hard knocks what works and where to not drive at certin times the year and I will tell yu Ive seen outsiders drive in to some the most assinine places a local would never think of driveing hell wouldent even dream of going in some the slop hoiles Ive seen hunters drive...........
I lived in sandy country the best tire's there were the ones with the best flotation = less ground pressure, you dident want to spin the tire or you'd cut throught the sod layer and drop down in bottomless sandy marsh areas where the sod layer was all that was keeping you from walking for a tow, in the area just across the river from me = 7 miles away they had clay roads in country like that all it took was just a sprinlkeing of rain to render the roads slik as snot on a door knob, the farmers over there all used very tall and narrow and heavily lugged bias ply tire's in wet clay you dig down to the solid layer under the wet slippery snot layer the guys useing the big fat sand country tires would loose traction on the surface snot and slide in the ditch due to no keel effect of the baloon radials
Did I mention anything greater than 1/2 ton rateing the chances of getting stuck goes up by 25%?.
Its no time to be inventing the wheel in a SHTF situation, shutt off yer computer travel round study yer surroundings/lay the land know what the working people do in your area do to get around? and when they know when not to go, find out where all the old road beds are if they sytill exist, if you had to go off road and cross creeks where is a good foarding spot? can you do this at night with out looking like a hollywood grand opening?? this is when you definately dont need 1million watt lights they strobe all over the country not to mention brake lights showing when on a hill at night, ever do any running down a gravel road with yer lights off? what would you do if someone was chaseing you? what would you do if ther's more than one vehicle and they try to head ya off?, Do you have the smarts to recognize a marsh hazzard before yer azz deep to yer door jamb with the stuff? have you ever gotten out of being stuck without the help of the county road commision heavy equipment dragging a quarter mile of tow cable.
I see ya guy's going on and on with fantisy trucks that the average guy wouldent have or afford and the weekend worrior cream puff rigs...Mighty purty one's too guys!
Ther's allot of glitzy rigs with bolt on do-dads but that doesent make a good off road truck/vehicle, and do you have the skills of a good off road driver??
If I remember this is a thread of a survival vehicle and should reflect something within the grasp of the average working man??? and on the frugal side??
I bet my next paycheck when SHTF occors driveing a road system would definately be hazzardous to your health ....................ya know...........Can anyone say....................Terminal lead poisoning?

[sea_chicken1]

Out here in washington the best thing to have on your truck to navigate the rain and snow is tall norrow agressive tires, brushguard and a wench.

[Rex in OTZ]

Sea_Chicken1 has the right thought I love the pun
wench on the front!
I dont have a front seat wench or a bumber winch only a 4 way wrench behind the front seat.



Trucks in a urban area........A friend in Anchorage had a nicer looking club cab commute truck parked right in front the garage on the side the home in a quiet section of town they'd kept some emergency cash stuffed up under the front seat spring, the thieves used a Jimmy and opened the cab and only took what was under the seat not the Garmin hand held in the glove box............go figure?
A big new truck with locked door's = stuff worth stealing.
Never put anything valueable under the seat, thats where folks hide stuff they think is of value, guns, booze, etc..etc the first place a thief will look.
if your gonna hide something like that find a nice spot in some secluded and tough to reach spot then fasten with Hook and Loop and never let anybody see you do it.

[sea_chicken1]

I just recently purchased a shtf truck and aside from the paint it doesent screem rob me. It's old enough to be easy as hell to work on but not nice enough to want to rob, and yes it may suck gas but it has enought metal and power to survive a few bump to pass cenarios if need be.

[sea_chicken1]

After I get my reinlistment bonus this year it's getting darker paint, brushguard, wench and different tires. I might get one of those jerry can racks for the back and leave it off until I find myself in a situation where bugging out an option and intall it beforehand.

[Hobbit]

Get a bumper you can knock the bejesus out of somebody with. 4x4 is good but secondary nice truck!

[Despoiler]

Quote:       Originally Posted by sea_chicken1

I just recently purchased a shtf truck and aside from the paint it doesent screem rob me. It's old enough to be easy as hell to work on but not nice enough to want to rob, and yes it may suck gas but it has enought metal and power to survive a few bump to pass cenarios if need be.

Sea Chicken
Looks like a nice truck, I only see one problem with it, it is a Chevy. LOL I hope you didn’t pay any money for it… Just joking I prefer FORDs myself, I have a 1990 F250 4x4 and after nearly twenty years it still runs great. What year is the Blazer? It looks like late seventies?

Despoiler

[sea_chicken1]

I like the fords too but I'll wait another year or so and pick up a powerstroke that I want so in the meantime this is my project. Its a 77 k5 right before they switched the headlight configuration.

[Rex in OTZ]

4x4 with rock guards already in prescratched condition!