progress pictures

[cypress TX 72]

All of us "frame off" guys know thats a lot of work, clean and precise...
good work

[djracer]

this was his first try at this type of box!

[tnblazerk5]

it all looks great to me that box looks really good i thought about takin a old gas tank and doin sumthing like that with it

[LSGarage]

Gosh I'm old. I always thought two 6x9's and a killer 30amp output, am/fm with presets was the cat's meow.

[mike nutt]

Originally Posted by FRENCHBLUE72

What does flipping the crossmember like that do? I have never heard of doing that. Very nice progress so far keep us posted..

in the pics below there are two different trucks both with ece's 6" drop kits the top pic is my with the x-member flipped , the second is not flipped ,as you can see in the pictures on my truck the axle end of the trailing arm is alot closer to level. don"t know if it really needs it ,i just think it looks better.

[Hart_Rod]

Nice job on the truck. I guess I'm blind, because I'm not seeing the difference in the trailing arms. Did you C-notch? Did you use shock relocators?

Rob

[FRENCHBLUE72]

O.K. I see the difference looks like it would help out the pinnion angle and eliminate any of the vibrations that may come from such a drastic drop.. If its not too much trouble could you show some pics of your pinnion angle as it is now?? Thanks Luke,

[roj2323]

i wonder if you could just flip the brackets on the crossmember instead of fliping the whole crossmember? you would probably have to exchange left for right but i think it would work.
ondrew

[Hart_Rod]

I finally get it. I thought you meant the trailing arms were flipped upside down, now I see you were talking about the crossmember.

R

[mike nutt]

Originally Posted by FRENCHBLUE72

O.K. I see the difference looks like it would help out the pinnion angle and eliminate any of the vibrations that may come from such a drastic drop.. If its not too much trouble could you show some pics of your pinnion angle as it is now?? Thanks Luke,

frenchblue72, i don't have any pics of my pinion angle, on my truck i'm using a later model rearend , i had to cut the axle perchs off and i'm using a new set of perchs from ece, my pion won't be set until the truck is almost complete and pretty much at finished ride higth , but it does help if you were stock axle because of the severe pinion angle. i could have got by with out flipping the x-member and just corrected the pinion angle before welding the perchs on. just a note , the x-member work was done with the cab and bed off of the frame

[junkyarddog1956]

Lookin good Mike ... nice job ... jyd

[GMan69]

Gonna be one awesome ride when you're done!!

[muddpile]

Wow does that look good! I really like the sub box in your old truck too! I can't wait to see what else you have planned for this one.

[Longhorn Man]

Top notch fab worh there.
On that speaker box... what did you make that out of?

[Metmanice]

That speaker box is great. I have drawn out the plan for one like it in my '67 but that is a while off. I wanted to put the plan down to remind me (got a lot moving around in the head now

[mike nutt]

heres a few pictures of the cab after bodywork and primer.

[krue]

Very nice.

[phantom dually]

looks great

[mike nutt]

and heres some of the latest progress on the late model bed i will be using. the bed was shortend by 4 1/2" . the rear step was shaved and the front step was cut off and raised up to line up with cab. i liked the look of the bed sitting lower on the truck instead of raising the bed to line up the bottom of the bed.

[mike nutt]

more bed pics

[project76]

looks great, do you have any plans to mod the wheel wells on the bed to match the fenders?

[mike nutt]

looked at it alot and don't think i will, but not 100% sure

[djracer]

Lookin Good Mike! I need you to work on mine so huury up on yours!

[1Ton]

Very nice truck. Top notch fab work.

[lolife99]

Hey Mike,... Just a quick question. How did you Z the frame and not have to drop the front frame horns by the core support? Is the frame only Z'ed behind the engine? Great looking truck!