'78 3/4 ton 4x4 FRANKENTRUCK

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Yo! Y'all!
Finally had time this eve to get pics of what I've been working on for about eight months (when I haven't been working full-time!),...my nearly finished FRANKENTRUCK!
Any of you who aren't familiar, this is a free, pasture truck,...a '78 Scottsdale fullsize 3/4 ton 4x4 P/U "camper special". 350/TH400/NP203 fulltime 4x4. My donor truck ($100/ton at the junkyard when I'm done,...it's accumulated quite a load by now!!), is a '73 Custom 3/4 ton 4x4 flatbed (350/TH350/NP205). I kept the Dana 44 with Warn locking hubs and 5560 lb rated rear axle, AND the springs from the flatbed, and the TH400 from the P/U, and put them together in the P/U with a 350hp/411ftlb 350 V8 that I built, and an Off Road Design NP205 with twin stick and machined shift rails. Here's my hand built result,...(still finishing some minor electrical and then the trip for exhaust fabrication):
With it's new hood, and that axle that the '78 is not supposed to have!



The 350 V8 I built:



And the new driveshaft, the NP205, and the electric fuel pump system that I built (valve above, fuel pump inside frame rail left,...both in steel boxes:



Todd.