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**mr48chev** · 07-31-2009, 06:47 PM

Welcome from Central Wa.

To keep the trucks personality and heritage why not just swap the trans and transfer to an automatic trans and matching transfer. Then swap in a power steering box.

To change it to two wheel drive would make it a totally different truck in my estimation.

It's rather like the old story about Abe Lincoln's ax. Here is Abe Lincoln's ax that he used to split fence rails. We had to change the handle three times and the head twice, but it is Abe's old ax.

That said, I know where there might be a couple of fairly complete chassis. One a 69 and one a 71 or 71 both long beds.

07-31-2009, 06:47 PM	#16
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,824	Re: New from Washington State Welcome from Central Wa. To keep the trucks personality and heritage why not just swap the trans and transfer to an automatic trans and matching transfer. Then swap in a power steering box. To change it to two wheel drive would make it a totally different truck in my estimation. It's rather like the old story about Abe Lincoln's ax. Here is Abe Lincoln's ax that he used to split fence rails. We had to change the handle three times and the head twice, but it is Abe's old ax. That said, I know where there might be a couple of fairly complete chassis. One a 69 and one a 71 or 71 both long beds.