Crew Cab Frame ???'s

[masters]

Fairly new to the forum but have been following it for awhile now. I currently have two projects going on and I'm trying to figure out which direction to go with one.

I currently have a '76 C-10 LWB all original 60K mile truck, it just needs a little TLC and body work and it will be where I want it.

The other is the one I'm torn on. I bought an '84 K20 that I am going to do a frame off on. The body is shot on the truck so I started getting donor parts. I traded a socket set for an '86 1-ton 2WD crew cab frame with a good bed and a full float 14 bolt that I was also wanting for the K20. I then bought a good cab and front clip off another truck for a couple hundred bucks. I pulled the bed of the K20 and the crew cab frame this past weekend. Now where I am torn is do I want to clean the frame up on the K20 and do the frame off on that frame, do I cut the 1-ton crew cab frame down to fit a regular cab since it is much stronger and it excellent shape, or do I put the regular cab on the cre cab frame and make one of the extra long bed trucks out of it?

I would really like to see what all would be involved in making an extra long bed, I think they come out to 10.5'? Anyone have experience doing this?

I plan on rebuilding the 350 motor and the 700 transmission to run in the truck, not sure if I'm going to keep the 208 transfer case yet or not, with the full float 14 bolt rear and either a built D44 up front or a stock D60 front. I'm planning on running a 35"-37" tire.

[johnnyclack]

I have not seen a modified bed to 10' . It would be interesting to see

[masters]

Originally Posted by johnnyclack

I have not seen a modified bed to 10' . It would be interesting to see

I've seen one single wheel 2WD truck in person and have seen several pics on the interenet of single and dual wheel trucks both 2WD and 4WD. The bed part would just involve mating together two beds to the appropriate lengths and then mounting. The hard part I think will be the cab mounts the way the crew cab frame bends.