[68 TT]

Been very busy with the family & life getting in the way but finally getting back to working on my trucks and the Camaro.

I ended up going off the deep end on my daily driver bagged 89 C1500 RCLB when it blew a head gasket in the original small block. It turned into a full frame off rebuild & upgrade. It is now a static dropped short bed on a torsion bar 4x4 chassis with TBI 454, 4L80E and 14-bolt posi. I am playing around with the idea of making it all wheel drive as I have all the parts to do it but the lack of posi for the front is kind of a detractor. We will see.

The stepside has reverted to the 400 small block and T-350 again.

I fit the stepside with the 5-lug drop spindles off of my 89 C1500. With the 235/70-15's on the front it sits nice an low like I wanted it. Now I have to make the rear match.

That necessitated a rear end swap to get 5-lug out back. I cut the trailing arm mounts off of a spare housing I had and fit them to a square body 3.73 posi truck 12-bolt 5-lug rear end I had rebuilt for the 89 C1500 rebuild job but didn't use after I decided to make the C1500 6-lug and found the 14-bolt posi for it.

I just got the rear installed into the stepside yesterday and am in the process of building a longer panhard bar setup for it. I used the axle tube mounted portion from a spare HO72 housing I had and modified it to fit outboard of the trailing arm mount on the passenger side. It sits about 2" lower than the stock mount does so that will lower the rear roll center a bit. I need to build the longer panhard bar to match. I am toying around with the idea of making a frame bracket to lower the arm more to level out the bar and lower the roll center even more.