'67 Chevy C-10 Longbed questions/ My Intro

[jhama78]

Greetings all, if this is in the wrong spot let me know and Ill delete or move it... Ive been registered here for a while but havent spent much time here in the last few years... and therefore dont know what the protocol for posting general questions is...

Anyway, heres a pic of my grandfathers 67 that he bought new in dec 66 and later restored in 89/90 timeframe. I drove it some through high school and help him work on it from time to time, but it has more or less sat in the garage since the early 90s.

He passed away a few weeks back and I may have an opportunity later this year to buy it from my grandma since he wanted me to have first refusal on it.

My questions are regarding a disk brake upgrade for the front and possibly dropping it a couple of inches.

First of all what is you alls recommendation for a disk brake conversion on the front that keeps the 6 on 5.5 bolt pattern? right now is has manual drums all the way around that work fine but Id like a little bit better brakes on it since I plan on driving it some.

Second I may at some point drop it 3-4 in the back and 2-3 up front so what are your suspension recommendations for a beginner that has never worked on these trucks very much?

As I previously said, if this is in the wrong section let me know... I spend plenty of time on pirate4x4 and know that if somebody comes into a 'hardcore/non-newbie section' and clutters up the forum with questions that every other newb asks then people tend to get annoyed.

Thanks again for any help/links/flaming/browbeating, Ive been building 4wd/off road trucks for years but havent done much with this genre of vehicles...



-j-rod

[ole dollor]

first let me say welcome back to the board, and there is a lot of info here for going to disk front brakes , do a search and you can read every thing you will need to do this and anything else you want to do.....welcome from Texas.

[hopped up]

Disc brake kits are available from cpp,ece,brothers and several other mfg. They usualky sell the dropped spindles and dropped springs too. Theres alwas the option th cut the coils tok. Lots of info in the site. Just lool around a bit youll find what you need. All are simple upgrades
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[jhama78]

thanks for the info, looks like I need to grab a beer and invest some time searching...

[2002yanks]

if you want to run disks and lower it eventually i would just get a set of 2.5" drop spindles. they are for disk brakes and to lower 2-3 in front its the ideal way to do it. you can get 6 lug rotors for them(thats what i have on mine). like was said before cpp ece and others sell them. try to make up your mind for what you want so you only do it once(way cheaper than buying things over). ex. 2-4 drop might still be high for you.4.5/6 might be better.

[RManson]

Cool truck! You can do a lot of cool stuff with the longbeds!

Check out my build at...

www.customclassictrucks.com

I built a longbed '68 C10 over the last year and did a number of the things you're asking about.

Shoot me an email (ryan.manson@sorc.com) and I can answer specific questions. Good luck and have fun!

-Ryan

[jhama78]

Link to pic since I cant edit the initial post to fix the link.

[Longhorn 70]

welcome back and cool looking truck.