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heres a few pictures of the latest progression my '69

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more pics

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nice..... something has been done to your inner fenders, but what? how much of a chop did ya go? looks real good so far. what engine are ya planning to go with?

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Some serious work done in those pics! Nice job. Keep 'em coming!

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he has done lots more than the pics show! Grafted on a new top fixed hacked up rockers, and firewall, z'd the frame swapped to 85 running gear and brakes he hasn't been working on this truck long at all for the amout of progress! He is putting in a wide motor!

Hope you didn't mind me filling in some blanks Mike!

Kevin

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is the trailing arm crossmember flipped like i think it is?

looks awsome! i actuly didin't realize the the frame was Z'ed at first. nice work.

ondrew

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yup!

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Very nice work!!

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:phat: What kind of panard bar set-up is that? :fb:

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What does flipping the crossmember like that do? I have never heard of doing that. Very nice progress so far keep us posted..

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nice

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might be a stupid question but when you z the frame like that what do you do with the trans x member? wouldnt that make for some strange angles?

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I think he made a newcrossmember and raised it up!

I think flipping the xmember allows for more ground clearance!

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maybe this will answer a few questions,the reason this truck is so heavily modified, the only thing left of the original truck once i got ride of the rotten body and the worn out and hacked up suspension, all i had left was frame so i decided to build a custom truck. the two cabs i used came from djracer and the rest from from '69 long stepside(have great set of stepside fenders and useable tailgate left over)and the complete suspension from '85.for the questions, the inner fenders were trimmed to clear the 3" z'd frame, the trailing x-member was flipped to less'in the angle of the axle end of the trailing arm with the 6" drop in the rear, not nessicary but looks better to me. worked out fine just had to redrill a few holes.also added 4" rings to run exaust trough.the panard bar came in a kit from early classic enterprice,awsome stuff. as far as the engine it is a hot little 396 backed by th400 with 2800 stall rear gears 411. i had to custom build motor mounts to lower engine almost 2"and fabbed trans mount to raise trans 1.5" ,the motor and trans has been in the truck fits great. with all the changes, i am mocking every thing up to make sure there are no problems later. comments and sugestions welcome. i'll post more pics with more progress. thanks.

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How tough was the 4" holes? I assume it was done while you had the cross member out of the truck?

I am quasi thinking of doing the same thing.

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it was done with x-member out, just cutt some 1/2" wide pieces of 4" pipe ,took the plazma cut the holes ,test the pieces , bolted x-member back in , tacked the pipe in , removed x-member and welded up. could be done in the truck i guess.

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Kick a$$ work my friend!

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Tight!

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What are you going to do for carpet to cover the new trans tunnel ?

Your truck reminds me of what mine looked like 3 years ago. Same yellow and I even found a green rust free door too.

Nice work.

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Nice progress

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all he'll need is high hump carpet!

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it's gonna have custom center console to cover any problems there.

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Mike got any pics of the speaker box you did for the other truck? It was too sweet!

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wow....nice progress

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ok kevin, here are some pictures of the speaker box in my red 86.

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All of us "frame off" guys know thats a lot of work, clean and precise...
good work

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this was his first try at this type of box!

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it all looks great to me :metal: that box looks really good i thought about takin a old gas tank and doin sumthing like that with it

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Gosh I'm old. I always thought two 6x9's and a killer 30amp output, am/fm with presets was the cat's meow.

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in the pics below there are two different trucks both with ece's 6" drop kits the top pic is my with the x-member flipped , the second is not flipped ,as you can see in the pictures on my truck the axle end of the trailing arm is alot closer to level. don"t know if it really needs it ,i just think it looks better.

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Nice job on the truck. I guess I'm blind, because I'm not seeing the difference in the trailing arms. Did you C-notch? Did you use shock relocators?

Rob

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O.K. I see the difference looks like it would help out the pinnion angle and eliminate any of the vibrations that may come from such a drastic drop.. If its not too much trouble could you show some pics of your pinnion angle as it is now?? Thanks Luke,

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i wonder if you could just flip the brackets on the crossmember instead of fliping the whole crossmember? you would probably have to exchange left for right but i think it would work.
ondrew

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I finally get it. I thought you meant the trailing arms were flipped upside down, now I see you were talking about the crossmember.

R

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frenchblue72, i don't have any pics of my pinion angle, on my truck i'm using a later model rearend , i had to cut the axle perchs off and i'm using a new set of perchs from ece, my pion won't be set until the truck is almost complete and pretty much at finished ride higth , but it does help if you were stock axle because of the severe pinion angle. i could have got by with out flipping the x-member and just corrected the pinion angle before welding the perchs on. just a note , the x-member work was done with the cab and bed off of the frame

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Lookin good Mike ... nice job ... jyd

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Gonna be one awesome ride when you're done!!

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Wow does that look good! I really like the sub box in your old truck too! I can't wait to see what else you have planned for this one.

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Top notch fab worh there.
On that speaker box... what did you make that out of?

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That speaker box is great. I have drawn out the plan for one like it in my '67 but that is a while off. I wanted to put the plan down to remind me (got a lot moving around in the head now ;)