My 1974 Chevy Short Bed

[andresco50]

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[Ravynia]

So yesterday my husband and I put in almost 10 hours on my truck. He pulled the wiring harness from the '86 and started putting it in the '74, and he pulled the steering column from both trucks and swapped them for me. I now have a 1974 with tilt steering! lol.

I replaced the glove box. The hinges on the glove box of the '74 were all busted and held together with bailing wire, and the glove box wouldn't latch right or stay closed. So I took the glove box from the '86 and installed it in the '74. I switched out the sun visors too. I also removed the black dashboard cover in the '86 and when my husband gets done with the wiring I'm going to put it in the '74 as well. I took off the doors on both vehicles, then I took off the stiff, worn, crumbly rubber door gaskets off the '74 and got rid of them, and put the still rather supple door gaskets from the '86 onto the '74. I also pulled out the seatbelts in the '86 and the seat... I put the seat into the '74 already, but discovered that the seat belts from the '86 are a bit larger than the seat belts from the '74 and won't go in without drilling a new hole.

The black truck pictured is my now dead 1986 Chevy Silverado Long bed 4wd. I had her less than a year before she stalled in the middle of the road and got hit. The frame is tweaked really bad or else all she would have needed was a front clip. So, now she's my donor truck.