How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10

[gringoloco]

So, somewhere along the way, I decided that the 73-87 leaf spring setup installed during the first 'restoration' was just not going to cut it anymore. After some research around the forum (noticing a trend here?), I found that it would be pretty easy to swap from leaves to trailing arms, and restore this truck to its once and former glory. Well, with a few modifications

I started gathering the needed parts for the transformation, trailing arms and a center crossmember, from member 70CSTShortWide on the 67-72 parts board, and sent them off to the powder-coater for some satin black, but not before making some clearance for the exhaust to pass through I also grabbed a 'rare', 1970 only, wide, 6-lug trailing arm axle from member HuggerCST, and set about ruining it by installing 73-87 axles, converting it to 5-lug, and effectively making it a 71-72 rear.