1963 C10 Build - Low, Loud, and Moderately Quick

[CubbyChowder]

I'll be following this one, excited to see what you do with it. Sorry if I missed it, is this going on bags?

[csermonet47]

This is looking awesome! I can't wait to see further progress and the other things that you have in store for it.

Thanks man! I will probably see you around at school this fall. Gonna be tough trying to build while living away from where it is.

Nice welding!



oh, the truck is cool too.

Thanks man. Got a little better over the next few classes:

Gonna miss not being on the TIG machine :'(

I'll be following this one, excited to see what you do with it. Sorry if I missed it, is this going on bags?

Yes it will lay rocker when I am done.

Messing around a bit in photoshop to try to get my bed proportions down:



Overall length of a long bed is 101 inches front to back. This would be 87 inches total. I would take roughly 7 inches off behind the wheel arch and about 7 inches off in front of the wheel arch. I used the ruler tool to measure how many pixels from front to back then set it to scale in inches and remeasure with the new lengths. What do you guys think? Here is long, mid, and short for reference:







I think the short beds look like chodes.

Anyways, drivetrain and rad core and inner fenders are off. Window tracks and vent window rebuild pretty much done and patched some more rust. Updates in the next few days. Thanks for the kind words everyone.

[aLaFleur]

Damn I love life.

You sure do look like you love life.

[dillon7]

looking great! Don't think you can go wrong with the long or medium bed. They both look
great.

[Average_Jerk]

Zip zap rap Dave the turntable slave

hahahhahaha

[MattyHacks71]

I think i see some bare metal showing through. If you wanna keep it as is you should throw some matte clear on it
Cool truck, I'll be watchin

[csermonet47]

Yeah I will matte clear it at some point when its on the road. There is a decent amount of bare metal showing on the bed. Thanks man!

Patched some rust today and made some more progress. Also polished some water spots out of my glass with some guidance from Mr. Dave. I think I should be ready to cut the frame up pretty soon. Just need to work out geometry and stuff. If anyone has any recommendations I would love to hear them.

[Average_Jerk]

What do you need to know? I have a friend turning his 69 Chevy pickup from an 8ft bed into a 7ft bed right now

[csermonet47]

I wasn't so much worried about shortening as I am about the z and getting my suspension geometry right. And I need to figure out what to do on the front to get it to lay out. I'd like to swap a subframe in from something else to get all my disc brakes and power steering rack done at once.I just don't know what to use. Porterbuilt makes a bolt in solution but I would like to make something else work.

[benz88]

grab a subframe and suspension from a 03up crown vic. cheap like borscht and easy to get parts.

[M.Doban]

I love how the paint turned out on this! I want an old truck now...

As far as the bed goes I would leave it as is. I love the patina you have going on and it would be a shame to have weld lines down the sides of the bed and it would also be a shame to paint it.

If you're set on cutting the bed up, I would get another bed to do it to. Then you would still have the original with the original paint.

[anth]

Loving this

[Rocknthehawk]

grab a subframe and suspension from a 03up crown vic. cheap like borscht and easy to get parts.

I did this on my '77 F100, have been debating starting a thread. The 03+ is used because it bolts in.

the CV clip is 34" wide (bolt hole centers.) The problem on some older trucks is the track width is much narrower. 03+ CV hub to hub is like 67.5". Pre 03 is about 4" narrower but has to be welded in as a clip.

[csermonet47]

I did this on my '77 F100, have been debating starting a thread. The 03+ is used because it bolts in.

the CV clip is 34" wide (bolt hole centers.) The problem on some older trucks is the track width is much narrower. 03+ CV hub to hub is like 67.5". Pre 03 is about 4" narrower but has to be welded in as a clip.

What all would be involved with narrowing the subframe to the width you need? I am just wondering what would need to be done about steering. Shortening tie rods sounds like it would mess up your steering.

You should definitely make a thread so I get get some ideas from you. I feel like there are a ton of different ways to do it.

[Rocknthehawk]

What all would be involved with narrowing the subframe to the width you need? I am just wondering what would need to be done about steering. Shortening tie rods sounds like it would mess up your steering.

You should definitely make a thread so I get get some ideas from you. I feel like there are a ton of different ways to do it.

This thread is the only one I've found with someone narrowing the CV crossmember:

http://fordification.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=68918

You can see he had to notch the frame for the strut towers. He used a mustang steering rack (haven't found any more info on it.)

A quick search I found that guys are pancaking the front crossmember:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=551353&page=6

to gain disc brakes you can swap a 73-87 front crossmember:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=367260

sorry, never really played with a c10 before (although i wouldn't mind finding one)