Orson the 49 GMC ~ Chris C.

[oldman3]

Chris, nice job on reusing the original trans crossmember...Jim

[skymangs]

Thanks joedoh and Jim, I always reuse the crossmember. There are many questions and talk throughs, but the boy’s really are doing a fine job! Thank God I did that S10 swap thread before the accident! My boys refer to that daily!

[Tempest67]

great explanation and pics

Thanks

[skymangs]

Thank you Tempest67, my goal has always been to post instructions. So everyone can plainly see what I’ve done

[Tempest67]

here is an FYI ,

When I purchased my transmission from a local junk yard, the guy gave me a cross member to go with it, he said that it came from a full sized GM pick up from the 90's. I took it , thinking I probably wont use it because I was going to use your method that you had posted in your 'How To' thread, of cutting the S10 crossmember,

The cross member he gave me was a perfect fit to the S10 frame, I could not believe it.

I just welded angle iron to the inside of the frame, drilled 4 holes in the angle iron to match the crossmember, and I was done.

Thanks again for your instruction, always helpful

[skymangs]

That works, unfortunately we can’t all be lucky enough to receive a free full-size crossmember. Good job on using what was available!

[skymangs]

Once we had verified that we were satisfied with cab placement we burned in the stands. The final pic is of our wheel selection.

[8man]

Those are nice looking wheels.

[skymangs]

Thank you 8man, we were thankful to have found them.

[joedoh]

cant go wrong with torque thrusts!

[skymangs]

Thanks joedoh

[Mains52]

Everything looks awesome as usual Sarge. Are you putting a carb on the 5.3 or keeping the efi? I have a 5.3 also so I am curious to see what others are doing.

[skymangs]

Keeping EFI.

[skymangs]

And thanks mains52

[Gregski]

really like how quickly this project is moving along, not that faster is better it's just that you guys know what you are doing and are making quick quality progress

[skymangs]

Thank you Gregski, we try to do that with every build

[skymangs]

Finally got to work on Orson!

[skymangs]

Driveline reinstalled, cab is back on. We’ll spend the rest of the week lining up body panels. And next week French the headlights, repair the roof, and try to get it in color.

[8man]

Progress!

[skymangs]

Thanks 8man!

[joedoh]

looking good!

[nvrdone]

man, your builds are always amazing !! When you French the headlights, how about some instructions and pictures? ive been thinking of trying that on my AD. Thanks

[skymangs]

joedoh, thanks brudda

nvrdone, thanks! I really enjoy building these. You bet, would you like to see it added to the swap thread?

[NorCalGal]

Looking forward to watching this build.

[Rickysnickers]

Man, you guys and ladies make things look so easy.