Re: 1964 GMC 1500 "crustine" semi- build.
Well who am I kidding? Like I'm gonna have the time.....well fought with my conscience and won the battle. Picked up this 3/4 ton frame, trans, bell housing, 205 tcase, and coupler for $400 bucks. It is a 77 frame so it's got a 14 bolt in the rear and a 44 up front. In the somewhat near future the plan is to swap Crustine's body onto this frame along with having a 454 mildly built and if I'm lucky an NV4500. The 4 speed will do alright but I want to try and keep the 4.11 gears as I plan to beef up the frame so I can tow my dump trailer and install my goose neck hitch. My dump trailer is rated at 12K load capacity so I'm thinking that might be a tad much for this frame. Later in the future I plan to dually swap in and use a spare set of stepside fenders I have as dually fenders.
Anyhow, life has been crazy and I've had no time to even work on my 66 so we'll see when I get to this. lol I'll be starting a new build thread when I do and this one will be linked in there but no longer updated. As the 4x4 swap will be the new goal.
All for now folks!
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