[floyd]

Originally Posted by viking427

The stock 67-72 C10/Blazer/Suburb 2wd coil spring 12 bolt rear is what you want. It rides (and can be made to ride) much nicer than leafs and they're still plentiful. 67-70 2wd were 6 lugs, 71/72 were 5 lug. 6 lug will limit your wheel choices somewhat, lotsa guys change to the 71/72 5 lugs for this reason. No, the late model 6 lug wheels wont fit, too deep on the backside & the wheel tucks in too far ..looks silly even with spacers to make them fit. stock wheels with correct offset/backspace thatll work for you are 67-87. 2/4 drop should be all you need for 20's. 67-72 GM truck (C10/20/K10/20/Blazer/Jimmy/Burb) for your floor patches, 69-72 blazer for your rear patch (due to differences in curvature of panel in that location). 2 wd and 4 wd frames are different and a fair amount of changover will be needed (adding crossmembers, bracing) to convert it to 2wd. Id probably keep the 4wd frame & leaf setup if you just want to fix it up a bit for a low buck cruiser.

Thanks for the reply...

I was wondering about the bed patch panel.....it seems all I could find was a long bed that said it needed to be modified to work with the short bed to fit. I have noticed some guys on here using a new short bed,bed side as a blazer replacement ...so if that the case would this panel work for my repair?
http://www.brotherstrucks.com/prodin...number=RLB9S00

I have all of the 5 lug stuff off on my 72 c10 long bed as well as the coil/truck arm suspension.... once I get the blazer in the shop on the lift Ill decide if this is gonna be an all out build or a quicky and keep the leafs out back.

Originally Posted by Wasted Income

FLOYD,
You can follow along with my build. I'm making slow but steady progress to converting a mint 4x4 to a 2wd with trailing arm rear.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=529064&page=3

Warning: If easily offended by "destruction" of a factory 4x4, please don't click

I have actually done some reading around and seen your thread. I dont mind cutting up a vehicle to build what you want......tastefully of coarse.... not every chevelle,camaro or nova was an SS.... but everyone has one...why not have the blazer you want...

I prefer my 4wd to do amazing things....this is how I wheel..

http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/..._IMG_39031.jpg