View Single Post
Old 08-30-2017, 05:57 AM   #4
D13
Registered User
 
D13's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Memphis MI
Posts: 1,851
Re: Frame inside cab - legal?

300CID matters because a 3800# truck with an overbored 292 is still slow.

Keith, it seems that I have a 2 ton cab with small back window and flat floor just sitting in the back yard.... The small window leaves room for the rear down bars... and I think a little imaginative cutting would allow a roll bar to be put in the rear pillars and run just inside the front pillars. Would make a really rigid chassis with minimal interior impact, allow the truck to be dropped (IHRA says 2" min ground clearance - but that won't go across my yard) and eliminate the need for offset roll bar to frame braces.

Looking at my collection and starting to think of 'use it or lose it'. And retirement is coming up on the horizon.
__________________
1987 2 ton
1982 250/TH350 beater in progress
Dad's 1981 3/4 L6 3 on tree posi and no options, awaiting restoration or scrapping
Plus a mess o' tractors
D13 is offline   Reply With Quote