1970 c10 4x4 conversion

[northof49]

Hi all,
a bit of background on my self and this project, i'm a jeep man right to my core, ive owned several xj's and loved building them and pushing them to their limits off road. I did a 4x4 conversion on my last xj (yes it came as a 2wd) and had alot of fun with that jeep.

Long story short in fall 2012 i bought a 70 c10 custom lwb, factory 350/th350. She was an old farm girl and had truly seen better days. I drove her how i got her for 2 years on sundays and when i needed a pickup, as i had a jeep as my DD. Early last year i regrettably sold my xj and bought a 2010 sierra. lets just say about a week after buying it i found that it wasnt even close to as capable as my jeep when it came to 4x4ing.

so began my journey to converting the c10 into a k10. I wanted jeep like capability/preformance, ie. Hard approach and departure angles, solid axles, rugged suspension. i looked endlessly for a 67-72 k10 in my area and came up with nothing in my price range. So i did alot of searches on how others had converted theirs and again didnt come up with much in the way of a step by step or even a parts list. So i decided the best way to go about it was find a good chassis to buy, i found a 78 k10 chassis for cheap and picked it up, i got an 84 th350/np208 for cheap as well. This was enough to motivated me to tear the 70 down and the ball rolling. i had the 70 stripped to nothing in a couples days time and things seemed to match up half okay. At this point it was winter so things stagnant for 5 months.