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Old 06-10-2014, 12:28 PM   #9
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Re: Suburban Body Swap Help

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Originally Posted by kenny_strong View Post
We found that by using a crew cab short bed frame that the middle of the frame is basically a straight rail so we took the extra length out of that area and re welded it close to how the factory had originally done it. Goal was to adapt new to old and not try and re-engineer what GM has spent 50 years building.
He just said disk brakes + auto trans. Disk brakes are an easy and common bolt-on, and these trucks came from GM with automagick transmissions.
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