1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes

[wutnxt]

Are you feeling truckless now with your truck at the body shop , or did you keep enough parts back to work on ? Mine has been gone for awhile and to keep busy i have been working on a shop addition and organizing parts.....Don't get me wrong i now drive to the body shop everyday i can and do what ever i can to speed up the process

[6lcummins]

Originally Posted by wutnxt

Are you feeling truckless now with your truck at the body shop , or did you keep enough parts back to work on ? Mine has been gone for awhile and to keep busy i have been working on a shop addition and organizing parts.....Don't get me wrong i now drive to the body shop everyday i can and do what ever i can to speed up the process

His stuff is in the way...

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by 6lcummins

His stuff is in the way...

If you don't have stuff in the way......you ain't building trucks.....LMAO

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by wutnxt

Are you feeling truckless now with your truck at the body shop , or did you keep enough parts back to work on ? Mine has been gone for awhile and to keep busy i have been working on a shop addition and organizing parts.....Don't get me wrong i now drive to the body shop everyday i can and do what ever i can to speed up the process

No, not quite yet. I still have the 76 sitting behind the shop, and Mathew's 88 was in the other bay. And yes, I kept plenty to work on but I have no spare time at the moment to work on my stuff. I'm trying to finish a PITA 04 F-250. I'm going to bring that thread back from the dead here shortly.

[Chevymaniac]

Your truck has gone through quite the transformation. Excellent work. How did you determine where to mount the rear springs on your truck? I'am coverting my 72 swb 2wd truck to 4x4. The front spring swap is easy, but i don't know where to start for the rear. My truck has trailing arm suspension. Any advice would be appreciated. What grade, size, and length of bolts did you use to put 4x4 parts on your 2wd frame?

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by Chevymaniac

Your truck has gone through quite the transformation. Excellent work. How did you determine where to mount the rear springs on your truck? I'am coverting my 72 swb 2wd truck to 4x4. The front spring swap is easy, but i don't know where to start for the rear. My truck has trailing arm suspension. Any advice would be appreciated. What grade, size, and length of bolts did you use to put 4x4 parts on your 2wd frame?

My truck had leaf spring rear suspension since it was a Longhorn. But I hear that you can mount the spring hangers on the coil spring frames with out much work. Best bet would be to put a bed on your frame and mock everything up to get the rear axle placed there you need it. I used 3/8" grade 8 bolts for my spring hangers in the rear. I think the bolts were no longer than 2", maybe shorter.