** YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN ** The truck Chevrolet should have built.

[thelonerife]

Good job on it Drew. Wish I lived closer so I could give you a hand.

[drewskiren]

Originally Posted by thelonerife

Good job on it Drew. Wish I lived closer so I could give you a hand.

That would be great, if only.

On another note, I will be unable to do much until after Christmas.

[68 TT]

If it is just the location of the kick up being too far forward to work you could section the frame and move the kick up rearward where it will work. Then all you have to do it add some extra material up front to create the wheel base you need.

I did this on my 67 K10 conversion to make a square body chassis fit the body better without need for a body lift.

[drewskiren]

Originally Posted by 68 TT

If it is just the location of the kick up being too far forward to work you could section the frame and move the kick up rearward where it will work. Then all you have to do it add some extra material up front to create the wheel base you need.

I did this on my 67 K10 conversion to make a square body chassis fit the body better without need for a body lift.

I have been studying this a lot and it would be cake if I was building a 4wd. Building a lowered truck makes it very hard. I think now I will have to employ an old hot rodders trick and "channel" the body down over the frame. I will need to do this on the bed section only and will only channel the bed cross braces on the bottom of the bed for 2 inches, not the entire bed floor. Also will need to take out 3 inches off of the frame rise.

What I think I know so far:
99-2006 frames have a 9.5 inch rise or kick up for the bed.
The bodies on these trucks really hang down over the frame.
The new truck frame is 2 inches taller than my old frame, 4 inches wider.
67-72 truck bodies only hang down over the frame about 4.5 inches, so I need to keep the cab as close to the frame as possible to help hide the taller frame.
Old truck frames only kick up about 4.5 inches, So I need to come up with 5 inches of bed drop some how. (if I mounted the body and bed how they are now, the bodyline would be off by 5 inches)
All of these numbers are preliminary and will probably be adjusted somewhat.