57 Chevy 6400 2 wheel to 4 wheel drive

[Katrina/10]

Very cool idea, and I see you found some of those rare 22.5 wheels for tubeless tires. What are your plans for the exhaust manifold on the driver's side?

[elpound]

I was able to use a corvette style big block exhaust manifold for the passenger side and put it on the driver side. It's tight but will work. Otherwise I was looking at Sanderson cast big block hugger headers.

[sweetk30]

also c-60 med duty big block manifolds are center style dump .


LOVE the direction this build is going .

only thing i might have done was 19.5 p-30 bread truck 8lug drw rims and tires .

but the truck still looks killer with your tire/wheel combo .

[elpound]

Originally Posted by sweetk30

also c-60 med duty big block manifolds are center style dump .


LOVE the direction this build is going .

only thing i might have done was 19.5 p-30 bread truck 8lug drw rims and tires .

but the truck still looks killer with your tire/wheel combo .

Thanks SweetK30!

I wish I had known about the C-60 manifolds. It took me a while to find one that would work. The factory steering box was a hassle.
I did have a set of 19.5s that were 10 lug on the rear. I just wanted to keep the rubber height around 37" like It had on it. Believe it or not the front wheels on this truck were 22.5-8's. I put them back on with 9r's. They are about an inch taller. This is the second chevy of this vintage where I have found 22.5's. The other was a 56. Riveted together tubeless wheels. I did some research and found Chevy started offering them in 1956. I put those wheels on my 68 ford N600. Same bolt pattern. Crazy....

[elpound]

I found a nice seat out of an 88-89 Chevy truck to replace the one destroyed by mice and many hard miles. I wasn't a fan of the extra wood butt support either. I also picked up an instrument cluster from Dakota Digital. It will be easier to adjust the speedometer with electronic unit.