What did you do with your truck today, Part 3

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It is a '64 c10 frame*, original trailing arm rear axle and drum brakes, now ~'78 front suspension on 64 cross member. 8" dual diaphragm booster, disk/drum master and an adjustable proportioning valve for rear.

The rubber bushings made more difference than I expected, the old ones had no play but were evidently the source of an assortment of squeaks that are now gone. The rubber also has a smoothed out ride, more isolated from road vibration. I like it.

I had the new control arms, disks etc all prepped ready to go and the swap still took me about 5 days. I spent quite a bit of time on getting alignment where I wanted it, also had to align and mount the newer style idler arm to match the power steering box I'd installed last year. Now it has the newer style larger tie rods everywhere.

The swap pushed both wheels out about 1/2 cm, and lowered the truck about 1/2 inch in front. Just enough I have some rub on drivers front when backing up at full lock. Going to live with that for now as plan to swap the 250 for a 292 this fall, adding 10-20 pounds to front. probably just buy some new OE springs

*this frame swap was started in about 1980 when there were not many options for front suspension swaps except some poorly done car front clips. There are easier ways to do it now and I would not recommend c10 frame under AD truck. But I am happy with the results.

for future reference: (repeating a tip I found elsewhere, disk swap on drum brake c10 crossmember, get early 70s Chevelle rubber lines and you can keep the hard lines & mounts behind crossmember, if you use newer c10 lines you need to relocate hardline to front of crossmember)