Evan's '78 SWB 2wd

[evan]

I finally got to start my project this weekend. It's been a long time coming so it's nice to get going. The progress pictures won't come very quickly but I'm hoping to have it driving (probably without paint) by this summer sometime. I'm doing everything at my friends shop which is almost a 3 hour drive for me but I'm hoping to get out there a couple weekends a month.

Today was all about disassembly. It was slow but it's the first time I've done anything like this so I tried to keep track of all the parts, even if I'm not going to reuse them.

The plan is to use as much of the '79 (blue truck) as I can and then the cab from the '78 (orange truck). The cab from the 78 is in pretty good shape since I had the rockers done a few years ago. The 79 rolled into a ditch last year.





It begins.



The parts table filling up.



The bed came off surprisingly easily. The previous owner must have had it off at least once before.