1968 Chevy C10 Bagged on Wide Whites

[stich626]

nice, it's low enough,
hello from whitman,ma

[Tom@LRD]

I have some updates from the last several weeks while I tackled stage 2 of the rear suspension. It was time to get it down a few more inches by making my own weld in c-notch, upgrade and relocate the rear shocks, new adjustable panhard bar in a new location, new trailing arm bushings, bumpstops, and cleanup so that my friend could paint everything.

Onto some progress shots.



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Nice and rusty with some 2.5" pinion corrected lowering blocks with custom built U-Bolts




Marked the center of the axle when laid out.




Worked out to a 2.5" additional drop when sat down on the bumpstops.


Inside cut to match contour of frame with room to run the brake line behind the axle.


After a few rounds of cleaning the frame.




Next to the 72 that we were bagging at the same time.


New exhaust, NAHHHTT!


It is going to sit just low enough for the top of the diff to relax against the bed floor.


New panhard axle mount


New panhard frame mount












Time for Nate to paint a couple C10's




Flipped the stock lower shock mount upside down and side to side.


Notches bodyworked and primed.





Paint pics to come next.

[eganracing]

Looking good man. I'm looking to do about the same setup to my 71

[1972hays]

thats a aewsome truck man its clean

[67c10rustbuket]

I dig the whites ! looks very cool man

[tanman722001]

Thats one nice truck when you got it.Im not a big fan of slamming trucks Sorry.You are doing a great job on it.

[Tom@LRD]

Here are some more pictures of everything painted from last weekend.








Cut off the factory panhard mount and smoothed the diff.






Air Zenith OB2 Chrome 200PSI Compressor












Inline Tube stainless braided line, polished stainless axle lines coming soon. RCD Bilstein mono tube air ride specific shocks.








Front still needs to drop down another couple inches.

[Tom@LRD]

Here are some more pictures of everything painted from last weekend.








Cut off the factory panhard mount and smoothed the diff.






Air Zenith OB2 Chrome 200PSI Compressor












Inline Tube stainless braided line, polished stainless axle lines coming soon. RCD Bilstein mono tube air ride specific shocks.








Front still needs to drop down another couple inches.

[502ms]

Loving this truck!
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[kcfirstbuild]

Could you take a pic of the firewall. I'm looking at your factory wall markings. My drivers side ones are gone and I'd like to put some back on. Hard to find a 68 with some still on to know what I should put on. Thanks

[funkytechmonkey]

Is that a 5 gallon tank?

[Tom@LRD]

Yes, it is one of our 4 port 5 gallon aluminum DOT rated air tanks that has been polished.

I will get some pictures of the factory chalk marks for you kcfirstbuild

[67cheby]

Killer truck, love the Datsun also !!

[67chevemall]

Very Very sweet Build man! Show more of that datsun and is that a e30 bimmer too?

[quandelgarage]

those tires really set that thing off. looks awesome

[57truckguy]

IT is not only bagged it is hammered.

[litew8]

Nice Did you clean the frame any more before paint? Or just painted over. curious

[lrd nate]

Wow how long is that bed looks like 10 Feet GM never made one very cool

[gearheads78]

Looks great but personally I would be a little worried about the structual integity of the frame with a notch like that. I bet you could stand on the end of the rails and flex it down a couple inches.

[Tom@LRD]

Thanks for all the compliments all. Yes, that is my boss' 91 3.18is that has a swapped M3 S52/6 speed also sitting on air. The Datsun is a future project of mine. The floors/sheetmetal in the datsun are nicer than my C10.

Man there are so many haters on the notch like no one has ever modified a frame before. Sure it would be stronger to box, gusset, or add further support to the frame, but doesn't mean the bed is going to fall off since I didn't. I guess I shouldn't be crusing around with anything in the bed either



I now have well over 500 miles on the truck since getting it back together without any issue.

[gearheads78]

Not hating on anything. I didn't even notice anybody else bring it up. Its just something I noticed reading through your bad ass build.

[VA72C10]

Truck looks awesome! Frame came out great! I don't think anyone's hating...just trying to point out a possible weak point in the frame. There was a heated discussion thread about notches on this forum a while back and the facts ended up that a notch like that is just waiting to fail...and there's some easy/cheap ways to prevent it to happen...out of that thread CPP re-designed their c-notch and produced a stronger one...(although the cheaper ones still sell better )

[wild4wheels]

Thats a sweetie! Dig the WW's! BTW.. is that a Factory Five in the background?

[Tom@LRD]

Yes, that is a Factory Five GTM in the background that we are building where I work.

[CC69Rat]

Amazing difference man .. Wow.