- Hey you guys, Shawn again, Custom Offsets.
Custom Offsets TV on YouTube.
Today we've got my old three Chevy Avalanche 1500.
First build we ever did.
It's six-inch lifts,
it's got 33s,
got big ass bolts in the fenders.
Let's go!
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(heavy metal music)
- 'Kay guys, like I said,
this was one of our first builds ever.
So this'll take a little while,
'cause were gonna basically go through everything
front to finish.
Front to back.
Start to finish.
So, if you look at suspension,
we just did a six-inch Rough Country lift.
Which you can barely even see anymore
because it's got so much Scorpion bed liner
and other products on there.
We built this truck,
shit, Junior,
five years ago, I think?
It's got like 100 thousand, or 200 thousand miles on it now.
It's definitely been through the ringer and back.
It's done a little off roading, we've broke some stuff.
Speakin' of broke, I'm down to 20 bucks Junior.
If we look at the wheels,
we got the 20 by 12 motor metal M zero nine six two.
You can see it's gotta little over five-inch lip,
damn near six-inch lip.
That's 12 wide, negative 44.
You can see this is the black with the machined edges,
with milling.
Then it's got the milling all the way around.
Little curb rash from Taco Bell.
Then we're runnin' the Federal Couragia 33 12 1/2s.
So they're 33 tall, 12 1/2 wide.
You can see it's a big, luggy tire.
We kinda wanted that for that off road look on this one.
I have no idea how many miles there are on the tires.
It'd a been a good one to tell ya but,
I honestly lost track.
This thing's had so many different wheel and tire packages
on it, it's a little bit crazy.
As far as trimming, with the 33s and the six-inch lift,
you basically just have to take out some of this edging.
This was my first trim job ever,
so it's not the absolute cleanest.
I probably could've pulled that forward,
or pulled this out,
took the metal back,
and then moved it back with a heat gun.
Instead I just got in there and started chewin' at it.
So this'll definitely look like a rookie one,
'cause five years ago that's exactly what I was.
You can see I used a fork or a spoon, perhaps,
to trim the front (laughing),
maybe an air chisel.
I don't know, it looks good though.
Thank God we've gotten better at that, but that was how
we used to make 'em fit.
We'd just start hittin' it with shit and see if it
would make room.
That's wheels, tires, suspension.
Like I said it's six-inch.
Let's next do lighting.
So we've completely replaced the upper markers
and the lower headlights,
the lower fog lights,
are all just Amazon cheapo updates,
just to kinda clean 'em up
because the old ones were pretty faded from '03.
You can see we got the six-inch dual bars in the back.
(swishing)
I was being attacked, Junior.
I lived.
Those are basically replacing the tow hooks.
We took out the tow hooks,
and then came in from the inside,
and just screwed right in.
So those little buggers'll be adjustable,
you can still get some adjustment out of 'em,
but they literally fit right where the tow hooks were.
If we ever have to pull this one out,
we just pull it backwards,
don't worry about the tow hooks.
We gotta 20-inch, behind the grill there.
That was one of our first 20s.
So it's got some cobble drop brackets in there,
but now we have the EMB as you know,
woulda made that a much cleaner
set up.
But right now it's just sitting on some plates.
Is what it is.
Like I said, this one'll kinda show you some of our sins
from back in the day.
And then tail lights.
Let's go this way, Junior, it's muddy over there.
You can see we just went with a cheap tail light.
We used to have the VHT, but the police kept yelling at us.
So it's got the cheap eBay tail lights thrown in there.
Lambo exhaust.
Back in the day, I really wanted a Lambo.
I couldn't afford one,
so I just took a old piece of cardboard,
and I formed up what I thought looked like a Lambo exhaust.
Brought it to the local metal shop,
had 'em bend and weld somethin' up.
Straight piped it.
Just threw a small Flowmaster 40
race pipe in the middle there,
muffler.
And created Lambo exhaust.
It's sweet, Junior.
It's sweet.
This entire truck is Scorpion bed liner.
We originally had it Plastidipped,
but we wanted to make it more forever,
and we also wanted to hide some of the rust that
was sneaking through.
I can tell you that that didn't work very well.
But the good news is even with bed liner,
you can come back and put Plastidip over the rust.
Eventually it'll be like four inches thick.
But it's awesome.
These are our Fender Bolts.
So when I first got this truck,
I was tryin' to make it beefier looking,
so I tried to go get some Fender Flares,
found out they don't exist.
The only thing you can buy is some weird little strip.
So I just said, well I wanna make it look like there's
flares or something,
so I thought about puttin' bolts in here,
but when I did it,
I said to hell with it and bought the absolute biggest bolts
I could buy at the hardware store
that were only two inches long.
Drilled holes through all of my fenders and body,
put silicone RTV on there and literally
threaded these bolts in.
So it's a one-time deal,
definitely had to get it right the first time.
I think I measured about 11 times and drilled once.
'Cause I was using a speed bit as well.
So you really had to pay attention
to how deep you went with it.
Now I've got big bolts in my fenders.
Same thing with the grill.
I tried to find a grill for this
five years ago didn't exist.
I wanted a rivet style.
So again I went to the hardware store,
bought the absolute largest stainless steel Allen bolt head
hardware that they sold.
I laid out a pattern,
drilled through my entire grill,
threaded all of these in.
Holds the grill on really nice now,
but when you do have to take the grill out,
you gotta take 5,000 Allen head bolts out.
Because they're actually into some of the frame.
So that's super awesome.
It's got 20% tint in the rear.
The police had us put 35% up front.
Still not entirely legal, but they felt better.
It's got a 5% banner up top.
Used to have a roof mount bar.
I can show you what it looks like.
It's got the told mirrors, also Scorpion linered.
You can see that when we had 'em do the Scorpion liner
over at Premier Auto in Brillion,
they even did all of the doorjambs, all of the doors.
So it's really well done.
They did a killer job on it.
It used to have the roof mounts.
You can see some of those sins up here,
but because we filled 'em with silicone and put the
hardware in, no harm, no foul.
You can actually remove those roof mounts and have
no left over consequences.
Inside we've got the
Ruff-Tuff gator and black leather seats.
Those have been in there for about four years.
Show almost no wear.
Still fits super tight.
Big, big fan of these.
Still running a lot of these in a lot of vehicles.
We've got Kicker speakers.
Replaced all the factory ones all the way around.
The gauge cluster
is from
Repair My Gauge.
I think it's repairmygauge.com, or something.
But that's a complete replacement.
So I sent him my gauge cluster,
which had wore out motors and all sorts of problems.
They actually repair all the motors,
they put the new faceplate in there,
they did the blue needles like I wanted
and the blue backlighting.
I think it was like 300 bucks or somethin' like that.
And it turned out awesome.
Definitely updated the truck,
and fixed all the problems I had anyways.
You can see we've got Navigation.
Head unit in there from my buddy, Jeff Clear,
over in Ohio hooked me up with that back in the day.
If you look up, Junior, you'll see that I actually
took the entire headliner out.
So the entire headliner is suede.
If you feel up in here,
there are Custom Offsets logos underneath there.
It was supposed to give it an embossed look,
but apparently I didn't make them big enough
for it to show the detail.
But I know they're there and that's all that matters.
You break the camera, Junior?
(chuckles)
I won't tell anybody if you don't.
Okay, we're back.
Junior got in a little fight with the camera,
but I think we won.
In the back, you can see same thing,
it's got the pullover Ruff-Tuff seat covers,
it's got a pair of tens
underneath the seat.
I think that's it for interior.
What am I missin', Junior?
All sorts of fun stuff.
There's a lot of little stuff, too,
probably not worth mentioning.
It's got the 5.3 with 200 thousand miles on it,
so it should go another quarter million.
I think that's it, Junior.
- [Junior] I think we got her pretty good.
- It's got 65 thousand gallons of paint on the frame,
because every single spring,
I've added more and more and more and more black paint.
I would say we've been able to keep her pretty clean
over the years.
Never stored,
always run,
left outside for months.
She's a real trooper.
That is the C O Avalanche.
Her name is Stance,
according to her plates.
It's big, it's badass, it's all black,
it's Scorpion bed linered.
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Peace.
(slow piano rock music)