'50 chevy 3100

[Matt_50]

I got a couple of things accomplished yesterday. First I got a correct style bed. When I bought this 1950, it had a 1954 bed with it. Previous owner wanted flat top rails and had traded his bed. I made a trade and got a slanted rail bed. Very happy. Second I got a front end for only 50 bucks. It's an earlier one but the crossmember is the same. This allows me to do the suspension in a nice timely manner. And means I'll have some wheels on the c10 when I'm ready to have it hauled off.

I'm not sure if it's swappable but the lower control arms u bolts are a different size. I can either swap stuff from one crossmember to the other. Or just swap the whole thing. I can treat this like a motor mount replacement. I can raise the engine and disconnect the mounts and pull the front end out and put the other in and then rest the engine back down. Any thoughts? I'm thinking maybe a support bar across the top so I have rpm to pull out the front end..