[69GMC2004]

After seeing how bad the cab really was I decided to focus on the chassis and keep my eyes open for a better condition cab or even a truck. I had a hard time going back and forth between keeping the long wheel base or going short. For what I wanted short made sense, but you don't see a lot of pro-touring style long wheel base trucks. What ended up sealing the deal for me was working in a small garage. With the long wheel base the rear bumper would be an inch away from the door and I'd have maybe a foot or so of room in front of the truck to work in the engine bay, short wheel base was looking a lot better. I ordered the Brothers kit to shorten it and started hacking away. My trailing arms were getting pretty rotten and couldn't find any locally, the price difference between the OEM stamped style and a tubular style was almost negligible by the time everything got to me, so I picked up a set of CPP trailing arms and cross member.