Blue 64 Short Bed

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Last weekend my dad found a great deal on four 5 on 5 chrome steelies with tires at a garage sale. I had planned to run 5 on 5 up front with the disc brake swap but didn't have anything lined up to swap the rear to 5 on 5 (eventually a ford 9 inch ). I was going to run my old 6 lug wheels on the rear until the 9 inch swap but the tires are shot. So this week during free time at work

I took the old crusty 6 lug axles



Made slugs



Cleaned the axle flanges and filled the 6 lug pattern



Fusion welded the plugs



Turned the welds and slugs flush



Next I took an aluminum slug



And made an offset fixture to hang the axles off of the milling machine table





Bolted the axle up in the fixture



Located and drilled 5 on 5 bolt pattern, then reamed holes to . 015 interference for the wheel studs





Finally pressed the 1/2" wheel studs into the new bolt pattern