Chucks SWB Fleetside

[thelonerife]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

That's a nice looking hound you have there! The trucks progress is awesome too!

Thanks. She doesn't help that much. She'll come down there and sit on my foot just to let me know its time to rub her.

[thelonerife]

In these pics the trailing arms are on and springs bolted up. I may have to drop the trailing arms to mount the rearend. We'll see. The top shock relocating mounts are on. I need to clean up the rearend and get it on so I can get it rolling again. I've been down with my back so all I can do is post pics and clean parts. Light ones. This is how she sits as of now.

[VA72C10]

Nice progress! Will your floor jack lift up the rear enough to get it installed?

[thelonerife]

Yeah I think it'll go that high. I just thought it may be a tight fit with the cross members. I'm gonna try it like it is before I unbolt anything.

[thelonerife]

Its kinda stalled right now. I had to put my Mom in the nursing home. Shes been with us for 14 yrs and its been pretty hard on us. Shes real close to us though so we can pop in whenever we want.
thats been taking most of my time. I'll try to do some on it next week maybe, if nothing else happens

[thelonerife]

I started cleaning up the rearend but it started raining so I quit and moved it back inside. I'll get to that later. I decided that the gmc core support that I had was too rough. So I just cut the headlight mounts by drilling the spot welds and I'll put them on the nice core support that I have. It started out as a 72 chevy support. I took the mounts off of it and used it on my 68 frontend. Now it'll be a gmc support.
1st pic is of the rusty gmc support. 2nd is the headlight mounts off. 3rd is the good support that will get the mounts.

[gcburdic]

Chuck....would you have time to do a "how-to" on converting a Chevy core support to a GMC core support.....I think it would be helpful to others...I've seen several people wondering how to do this!.....Prayers sent for your Mother, you and family too!

[thelonerife]

Thanks, I'll show how to do it here. If I have time I'll do a seperate thread.

[thelonerife]

Well I got something going today. I decided to do the gmc core support while the rearend was drying.
In the first pic- is the core support that I want to convert. Its rust free and I wanted to use it.
2nd pic -I started by marking the edges of the brackets with a nail so I could measure exactly where they were on the original support.

[thelonerife]

So after measuring and transfering them to the good support, I marked them with tape. I then marked where the holes were and ground those marks off. I double checked my measurements and welded them on.

[thelonerife]

Now I have a rust free support that I just need to paint.

[sourkraut]

your light buckets are like rabbits! they are mutliplying!

[VA72C10]

Nice job four eyes

[thelonerife]

I got the rearend in and the cab on. The wife helped. (notice the wrench in her hand) I think she wants her parking spot back in the basement.

[Dustydog]

Looks great!

[60ratrod]

hey lonerife, what's that at the end of the hoist there?? did you make that yourself?? what ever that is that's an awesome idea.

[thelonerife]

Thanks guys. I made that out of a couple pieces of angle. It works pretty good. In the past I made one of those cab/bed lifts and it worked much better as it makes it more stable. I sold mine like an idiot.

heres a few more and a silohette ha ha

[67chevy1series]

looks great cant wait to see the front end on

[67cheby]

that looks great

[mcbassin]

Looks like some great progress! Awesome!

[VA72C10]

very nice! Always encouraging when they start looking like a truck again!

[DPowers]

Looks good Chuck- will be rollin' down the road in no time.

[thelonerife]

Thanks guys! I am excited to get the cab on but I still need to do some things that I should have done before puting it on like finish the fuel and brake lines. But I'll get it done. I'm jones'n to ride in an old truck again. I like the Silverado but theres nothing like an old truck.

[thelonerife]

I also did a little trick that I like to do with my core support bolts. I weld the bolt to the square washer just to make it easier to put together.

[67chevy1series]

did your doors crease or dent with that peice of wood my dad is wonderin thanks rick