Shorty's Longbed to Shortbed conversion

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As many of you know, my stepside is a longbed frame that was shortened the "wrong" way by the PO by slapping on a leaf spring rear end and moving it up and cutting off the fear of the frame. I worked hard to get all the kinks out of it, except the fenders were cut too and that is alot of $$$ to get those puppies smoothed out. A 73-87 bed and a 69 Shortbed frame presented itself to me for cheap last month, so here we go with a longbed to short bed conversion on this really short bed truck I got the Classic parts frame braces, although we had to cut them down slightly, and just did a butt weld. With the braces, there should be no worries. Everything lined up and squared up great. We got the frame swapped today, and tomorrow is bolting up the rear end. Installing the new bed will be a project within itself since the mounts are different, and I am going to install my Blazer tank first as well as rebuild the bed with new wood.

Here are a couple of teaser pics, the full gallery is here:

http://www.grossepointegothic.com/71stepside/FrameSwap/

New Frame and Bed:


Shorty Arrives!