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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky
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Re: 72 C10 winter budget build
At the Beginning of this summer I was hired on at the Corvette plant as an intern. This helped me gather the funds I needed to finish the first stage of this project. About mid way through the summer I bought a shortbed fleetside kit with stake pockets and rear marker lights. I just wish they made a kit that also had the holes stamped out of the bedside for the trim.
Assembly was pretty easy and straight forward. It took me from Tuesday to Saturday of one week. It would be possible to install this in a weekend. Only the passenger bedside needed some reaming and filing to line up with the front bed panel. I got some help from my dad to help me set the bed floor on the truck, after that I was able to manage everything else on my own. I used a paint marker and a hole saw to drill the hole for my gas filler neck in the bed floor. The two rear bed floor bolt holes needed to be drilled into my frame. After that everything else lined up. The aluminum tank in the frame blocked my access to the 2 middle rear bed bolts so for now I just left them out. It feels really solid with 6 bolts. The Bed was about 1/4" closer to the cab on the pass. side. I believe that my cab is a little off center, but for now It will not affect anything. At this point I had to make another trip to SOKY Classics to get the bed light fastener kit, some new lights, and a rear bumper bolt kit
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Dalton -1972 C10 LS swapped SWB conversion- http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=657591 ![]() -2004 Chevy 1500 swb daily driver |
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