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09-06-2014, 07:05 PM
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Blue 64 Short Bed
Here's my 64 short bed
  Added a dual master and split the lines about a year ago (thanks cheif)   
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09-06-2014, 07:54 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
$200 73-87 donor front crossmember.
 All cleans up. I'll probably just swap the control arms onto the 64s existing crossmember.  New bushing and ball joints.  And finally just picked up a saginawm4 speed to swap into the truck. 
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09-06-2014, 09:26 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Welcome and great looking truck.
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09-07-2014, 02:31 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Nice lookin truck.
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09-07-2014, 03:14 PM
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But Found Her 25yrs Later!
 
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Very Nice
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09-07-2014, 03:15 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Nice!!
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09-07-2014, 04:58 PM
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State of Confusion!
 
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
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09-07-2014, 05:09 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
sharp truck.
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09-09-2014, 10:25 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Thanks guys!
Rolled the truck into the garage yesterday.  Upon closer inspection of the crossmember I decided to do a full crossmember swap. Got the crossmember blasted.  And also noticed the front radiator crossmember is bent. I'd like to replace this before removing the suspension crossmember. Does anyone have a straight one laying around?  
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09-30-2014, 11:16 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Pulled motor for crossmember swap and engine upgrades.
 
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10-01-2014, 10:00 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
I think I have a radiator crossmember I can get for you off my 64 frame. Let me look at it tonight and verify theres no damage.
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10-01-2014, 11:17 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
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10-02-2014, 01:35 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
I have one...looked at it this a.m., I'm out of town until Monday if you can wait until then.
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1963 Short bed step side SBW 427 big block and borg warner T-16 HD 3 speed manual http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=519869 1963 Short bed fleetside BBW 348 1st gen big block w/Powerglide http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=619024 1964 Short bed trailer |
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10-02-2014, 11:16 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
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10-02-2014, 11:31 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Pulling the motor to do the crossmember swap and running across a good deal on a pair of heads have made this a good opportunity to put some work into this wet fart of sbc. Today I tore down the motor and confirmed what I had expected. The heads were 76cc with badger .020 destroked pistons, this put the piston .050 in the hole. With a .040 head gasket this gave me a CR of 8.16:1. Comboed with a Edekbrock torker plus cam .488/.488 lift and 292/300 duration with an intake closing at 42 ABDC gives this motor a dynamic compression of 7.5:1........A WHEEZE BAG
 
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10-03-2014, 12:01 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Wow .090 below deck surface? Wheeze bag is right
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10-12-2014, 10:56 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Today I rolled the truck outside and power washed the front half of the frame to prep it for the swap. Also pulled the power steering box to repair a previous owners power steering conversion
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10-16-2014, 12:06 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Tonight I cleaned off the torch cut left by a PO to fit the power steering box and cut a 3/16" patch.
 Tacked the patch in and V'ed out some cracks. It'll all get TIGed later this week. 
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10-27-2014, 10:02 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Finished up the frame patch. Whittled up some spacers out of a piece of stainless for the power steering box to mount on.
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10-27-2014, 10:02 PM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Very nice work!
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10-28-2014, 01:24 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
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10-28-2014, 01:49 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
After finishing the power steering conversion yesterday I was able to drop the old crossmember and roll it out of the way.
  Tonight I wire wheeled the frame where I hadn't been able to because of the crossmember. Then I used machinist die where I would have to modify the frame to bolt up the late model crossmember. Once the dye was dry I slid the late model crossmember in place and fastened it tightly with the 10 bolts that do line up.   The blue dye shows the holes which need to be modifyed and allowed me to scrib the needed modifications. Drivers side  Passenger side  I scribed the upper hole and ended up marking the lowwer hole by threading a bolt from the opposite side till it scribed the dye. I ended up drilling the top holes with the crossmember in place, had I had a transfer punch available I probably would have chose such. Top hole drilled with crossmember in place  I then removed the crossmember and used a rotary file to elongate the bottom hole on either side. Upper hole drilled, lowwer hole scribed.  Lowwer hole opened up  I then marked the angle brackets that bolt on the inside of the frame rail. Surprisingly this required much less clearance, I assume the hole is already oversized.  I decided this was a good place to stop for the night. While this was all going on my rusty but free 4 bolt main 350 was stewing.  After a few hours 
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10-28-2014, 08:45 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Lookin great!
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10-29-2014, 12:19 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
Tonight I clearanced the right angle brakets and did a final fit of the crossmember to make sure all 14 holes lined up. I haven't seen many pictures of these right angle pieces being used in swaps but I figured since they were on the late model crossmember it wouldn't hurt to use them in the swap.
7 drive side bolts  7 passenger side bolts  Then I pulled the crossmember off for hopefully the last time. Next I will finish cleaning the frame and prep it for some paint. Once I had the front crossmember off I found myself radiusing the corners of the angle brackets. Something no one will ever see but I couldn't stand the look of the sharp corners and I will know its there. Left is the sharp corners and right is after radiusing 
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10-29-2014, 04:23 AM
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Re: Blue 64 Short Bed
You guys who do and know all this clever stuff really do impress me.
Nice truck.
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