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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Good to know. You can see in the picture from the circular marks that the bolt head overhung the edge of the mount. The first time I saw that I knew something wasn't right.I bought mine and had them sitting around for a few months. I'm sure they'll work fine. The tailgate will be closed 99% of the time anyways so who give a $hit really, right.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
My bed is 1/2 '62 and 1/2 '66......the earlier hardware was bolted and later it was spot welded. My theory is cost reduction during the production run. Other differences include a lot of metal that was eliminated as time passed.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
any update on this build? I love your truck...
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
He's busy cutting his truck up.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Thanks dude. Between the two kids under 3 and work, I've been really busy. I also have a 61 MGA that I'm restoring for someone and that's eating up my garage time from the truck. I have been doing a few things though. I took the front end off, fit the new hydraulic clutch master, brake booster master and filled some holes on the firewall. I got a gas tank from a guy who said it's a blazer tank of an unknown year. Maybe someone who reads this can identify it but I don't think it's going between the back cross members without some heavy modification. He said he thought it was from an 80 or 81 blazer. The thing is gigantic, it's like 26x26. I'll have to hack seven inches out of it to get it to fit up in there. The price was right, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Next I think I'm going to raise my bed floor up a few inches. With the air out of the shocks the differential pushes up on the bottom of the floor and bows the wood. I don't have the money to buy a wood kit so I'm stalled out on that for now. After the bed floor is done I'll blow it apart and paint the frame. I'll prime the whole thing while it's apart and then put it back together. I'm thinking of driving it in primer for a while to make sure there aren't any more modifications that I want to do before paint. It's nice sometimes to slow down and just look at it to make sure everything is like you like it before moving forward.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Thats a blazer tank. What type of steelies are those?
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
I thought so but is there a thread somewhere that you know of that deals with the modifications to jam it up in the frame rails that are 19" wide?
The rims aren't steelies. They're 17" cragar 397s.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Check out Rokcrln's threads. He did a late-model blazer tank install on his LowBuk build IIRC.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Well, I am putting the same tank in my 66 swb truck. You need to remove the last crossmember in order to make it fit. I am not happy w/ the idea of less support back there so Im going to weld a piece of steel right behind the tank going to both frame rails. Cragar 397s huh? Love em. Might have to invest in those. 17s look perfect, get those 20s outta here!
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![]() Thats where it stands now. I ran across some diamond plate straps and put those on. Im not sure I want to use aluminum instead of harder steel. The skid plate is a whole differnent animal I have yet to confront. Last edited by Joemomma1; 08-20-2009 at 01:15 AM. |
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Thats the only pic I have right now, I will post up more tomorrow. Side and ground clearance.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
The first tank I tried looked like the one you have. It's to big on the top half. They make another one thats smaller on top it's about 1" wider so you have to trim thing alittle but height wise it fits a lot better. The one I used came from a 80's van.Your right you won't use that roll pan you can just send it to me I can use it on my 64 it has a big old farmers bumper on it.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
I see you still have your drip edge. Thats good.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
The roll pan will go on at some point but I don't want it to be completely smooth back there so I'll probably leave the seams....maybe. I'm not committal on the drip rail. I'm with you, I'll wait to see how the rail on Dennis' truck comes out first.b The tank will end up working after I raise my bed floor a few inches.
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
DUUDE THATS ALOT OF BARE METAL
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It makes me a little nervous. It will all be primer soon... hopefully soon.
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IIRC They are 21 Gal. I was going for low buck on that one and didn't want to spend $100 on a new Blazer sending-unit (4x what I paid for the tank). So I welded in the flange from the truck tank and bent the truck sending-unit float arm and pickup to work in the Blazer tank. Worked great!
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Re: Shrunken66Stroker's build thread.
Still makes me a little nervous. I have just a few more things to do before painting the frame and priming the whole truck. I see the light at the end of the bare metal tunnel.
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