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Hey all.
I hang mostly in the 60-66 group, but also in the 47-59 too. My bare steel suburban that lays on the running boards is nominated in dec's TOTM. Well, it was mine, I built it. But have since sold it to a guy in AR. Anyway. I have, what is most likely, a dumb question. I went to look at a real clean 72 GMC lwb truck, minus it's bed. It's a leaf-spring rear as most know. If I buy it, I want it slammed. I mean, laying out. So...Is it feasible to just remove the leafs and r.e. and move the r.e forward, and add a big notch, and relocate with a tri-angulated 4-link? What I'm asking is...Is there any reason I can't just shorten my wheelbase to swb length using the lwb frame? It would need a decent sized notch, and I can make my own crossmembers to locate the tri-4 Then I can find a shortbed or shorten a longbed for it. I'm sory if this has been covered before. Honestly, I didn't search it out. I'm at work on my bosses computer, so it's SLOOOWWWWWWW. Thanks, and I appreciate it Tim |
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Re: Dumb chassis question from a noob
Check the suspension forum. Lots of info on shortening lwb frames.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Dumb chassis question from a noob
Yes, everything you're mentioning has been done many times before. I would suggest looking in the FAQ's for the thread on frame shortening. Here's a good article for doing it on an assembled truck.
http://www.earlyclassic.com/tech.asp...20No!-Shortbed However I like the way it's done in the FAQ better though, but either will work.
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Re: Dumb chassis question from a noob
There's several write ups in the FAQ section. If you click on my crewcab thread, you can see where I built a short wheel base Crew Cab frame using the same procedures. OBTW awesome suburban, I'm sure you did well when you sold it.
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Re: Dumb chassis question from a noob
BTW, I nominated your 'burb for truck of the month. I know you're not on here much. Probably shoulda sent you a PM.
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Re: Dumb chassis question from a noob
I saw that, and appreciate it. But it wasn't allowed since I don't own it anymore.
I sold it in aug. The mod. pm'd me and asked. I told him I sold it. Oh well... Thanks again though. PS...Btw, I don't have any pics of your 57 or I would've nominated it. It was fun watching people look it over. What a find it is. |
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Re: Dumb chassis question from a noob
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