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**John Fabris** · 08-23-2010, 05:11 PM

uhm, regarding this:
"The long wheel base uses a carrier bearing on the driveshaft and the short wheel base uses a one piece drive shaft and the loop for the carrier bearing is not installed on the short wheel base frame."

Not completely true, my 67 shorty has 2-piece drive with carrier bearing.

And Tillman, short story, your burb has a wheelbase of 127"(not 133inches, dang beer..) while short bed trucks are 115". So it is not easy to do a frame swap without a lot of work on the frame (making it longer) or shortening your burb body. A truck (long bed) frame wheelbase is 127 inches, so you can start with a longbed truck frame and you will have to relocated body mounts and then modify the back end of the truck frame to work with the burb.

08-23-2010, 05:11 PM	#4
John Fabris TOTY 2006 Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Magalia CA USA Posts: 2,270	Re: frame question uhm, regarding this: "The long wheel base uses a carrier bearing on the driveshaft and the short wheel base uses a one piece drive shaft and the loop for the carrier bearing is not installed on the short wheel base frame." Not completely true, my 67 shorty has 2-piece drive with carrier bearing. And Tillman, short story, your burb has a wheelbase of 127"(not 133inches, dang beer..) while short bed trucks are 115". So it is not easy to do a frame swap without a lot of work on the frame (making it longer) or shortening your burb body. A truck (long bed) frame wheelbase is 127 inches, so you can start with a longbed truck frame and you will have to relocated body mounts and then modify the back end of the truck frame to work with the burb. __________________ John Fabris 67 C10 SWB Last edited by John Fabris; 08-25-2010 at 12:21 AM.