so the 65 is winding down and I am getting itchy. its not an STD, I like having something to goof around with so I am going to put a 49 on an s10 chassis.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill
here is the 49 (very important for titling) 3600 flat bed, came with 8 boxes of original spares, but sadly no bed and no glass. Spiders and bullet holes included free though. I made a low offer because it had a 65 tag on it, and to my surprise he said "have at it!".
the front springs were broken at the rear shackles so I opted for the adult option instead of the 20 yr old lets-crawl-around-in-dirt-and-push-this-on-a-borrowed-trailer-for-6-hours.
now its home, I have to clean it out and get a couple tetanus boosters
got a couple of these, plus the one in the cab,
a couple diverter valves in the boxes, newish OEM bumpers, a refinished oem painted grille, and just loads of extra stuff, gauges, weatherstripping, etc.
scored a set of patina matching running boards today too, no more shortys.
got a bed the other week, rusty front panel but of no concern.
I actually planned to use my 98 longbed under this but my wife has an attachment to that truck, she likes being able to haul all kinds of crazy crap and do it with an automatic transmission and air conditioning. I am swapping rear end gears in my 65, so I have been cruising craplist for a disc blazer rear end. I stumbled on a guy selling a 4.3 and auto trans for a sonoma. the ad says he bought it from an impound auction, the owner rolled it and didnt have comprehensive insurance. He bought it for parts so he cut the roof off and gutted it. I get there to look at it and it is a 2003 with 79k miles. (!) I gave him $300 for everything seen below.
stuck my rallies on it so I can sell the swirls.
I verified the mileage and the startup, the rad has a hole in it so we didnt run it long but the oil is clean and the trans fluid very red. its literally everything I need and I dont have to anger the wife god by tearing apart the tremendously useful longbed I already had. I am going to rebuild the front suspension because I can tell one of the balljoints is bad.
with the 49 behind it!
its an extended cab, so I have to decide on shortening it, or back halfing it. My brother in law and sister in law both work at a steel place so I get really good deals on metal. but I dont want to have to mess with this one too much... I do have some ART arms I got from a member here
and I have the necessary parts of an airbar to make the rear work. and some cups and bags. and some manual valves. hmmm.
I bought all the lumber and chain falls for a body crane, and I have patterns for the s10/47-55 body mounts and a plasma, and I just got an engine hoist. and its spring!
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill
here is the 49 (very important for titling) 3600 flat bed, came with 8 boxes of original spares, but sadly no bed and no glass. Spiders and bullet holes included free though. I made a low offer because it had a 65 tag on it, and to my surprise he said "have at it!".
the front springs were broken at the rear shackles so I opted for the adult option instead of the 20 yr old lets-crawl-around-in-dirt-and-push-this-on-a-borrowed-trailer-for-6-hours.
now its home, I have to clean it out and get a couple tetanus boosters
got a couple of these, plus the one in the cab,
a couple diverter valves in the boxes, newish OEM bumpers, a refinished oem painted grille, and just loads of extra stuff, gauges, weatherstripping, etc.
scored a set of patina matching running boards today too, no more shortys.
got a bed the other week, rusty front panel but of no concern.
I actually planned to use my 98 longbed under this but my wife has an attachment to that truck, she likes being able to haul all kinds of crazy crap and do it with an automatic transmission and air conditioning. I am swapping rear end gears in my 65, so I have been cruising craplist for a disc blazer rear end. I stumbled on a guy selling a 4.3 and auto trans for a sonoma. the ad says he bought it from an impound auction, the owner rolled it and didnt have comprehensive insurance. He bought it for parts so he cut the roof off and gutted it. I get there to look at it and it is a 2003 with 79k miles. (!) I gave him $300 for everything seen below.
stuck my rallies on it so I can sell the swirls.
I verified the mileage and the startup, the rad has a hole in it so we didnt run it long but the oil is clean and the trans fluid very red. its literally everything I need and I dont have to anger the wife god by tearing apart the tremendously useful longbed I already had. I am going to rebuild the front suspension because I can tell one of the balljoints is bad.
with the 49 behind it!
its an extended cab, so I have to decide on shortening it, or back halfing it. My brother in law and sister in law both work at a steel place so I get really good deals on metal. but I dont want to have to mess with this one too much... I do have some ART arms I got from a member here
and I have the necessary parts of an airbar to make the rear work. and some cups and bags. and some manual valves. hmmm.
I bought all the lumber and chain falls for a body crane, and I have patterns for the s10/47-55 body mounts and a plasma, and I just got an engine hoist. and its spring!