Suspension Question

[alsriv2]

Hello everyone.
After a few years of inactivity on my '69, we were finally able to get the engine installation completed and the truck running under its own power. The 396BB I had built professionally is a beast. Have not been able to drive it yet, but can already feel the 460+ HP wanting to be used.
I have many questions, but will ask this first. Regarding front cross member swaps, will a front cross member from a 93-94 Suburban (1500) work in my '69? I have seen many posts about using a '70's era cross member, but don't remember seeing anything about an early 90's being used.
The advantage to this is 1. Its free 2. It has the disk break setup 3. The booster and associated plumbing and valve is included.
I am going to be grabbing the seats out of it to replace the original, poorly redone bench seat with the sub seat (thread: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=613744&page=3)
I am also going to take the 700r4 out of it and have it professionally built by Hughes in Phoenix to match the output of the 396.

Any words or advice would be greatly appreciated.

[hugger6933]

No that Sub is too new for the stuff to work. It has a crossmember that is welded to the frame not like the trucks from our era up to the 87's [trucks] 91 for the [sub's]. I'm sure that you can find a proper year model close to the same price range as the other.

[alsriv2]

Thank you for that information. I was just told the Sub is actually model year 92, manufactured in 91. Going to go take a look this afternoon. Free is very appealing.
If the crossmember won't work due to what you pointed out, will the spindles/brakes be adaptable to the 69 setup?

[morepower71]

Anything can be adapted with a welder, drill and grinder but the amount of time and work might not be worth what it would cost for new bushings, spindles, and a disk brake kit.

The one thing you should have going for you is the bolt pattern should be the same.

Let us know what you end up doing.

[wbc409]

A month ago I was looking into the same thing and a local junkyard said they would sell me a front frame stub with all of the front end parts for 400.00. They were going to have it ready for pick up at that price.

[GASoline71]

A lot of work for disc brakes when there are disc brake conversion kits available that will bolt right on to a 1969.

Gary

[alsriv2]

Thanks for all the advise guys.
I am going to go the purchase mode, rather than add more serious work to the truck. The truck is an older restoration and had the big block already but was in poor shape. Spent a small fortune on the engine, but super happy with the results. The "owner" that did the restomod work never upgraded the brakes, so I am doing that now to properly stop that truck when going down the road. Currently has power drum on all 4 corners.