when i was about 10 or 11(im only 18 now) my dad had an 85 truck and it had a 8 inch lift with 36 inch tires i dont know about the gears but it was fuel injected with the solid front axle and it was a long bed, had custum front and rear bumpers, best truck ever! he got that truck in high school with like 250,000ish on it. a drunk driver t boned it in a parking lot in a big dodge truck and folded it in half, when that happend it had 470,000 on it with the stock engine, my dad said he never had it rebuilt just took good care of it. poor thing.... RIP...