53 chevy truck

[Rhynorock]

Swiss cheese frame, courtesy of western NY wintertime...

My good friend Carl doin some cutting with a plasma cutter while I snapped the photo

The final result of the frame repair

After the rot repair, I elected to sand blast and prime the frame, and throw some flat black rust oleum on there

My cab, '53 chevy 5 window

More swiss cheese repair...

Underneath

Cab on frame just to see what it looks like

Locating the cab with a plastic 350 mockup motor

And now for some goodies

350 with new scat crank

 

[Rhynorock]

RPC aluminum heads

Motor almost complete, me throwin an almost bicep...

Both heads torqued on, carb and air cleaner placed atop for kicks

Engine pretty much complete. It's sitting tight right now on a stand till I get everything ready to put it in and run it, hence the tape over all the openings

 

[Old Iron]

I like the ole 5 windows
Looks like the engine will pull it just fine [ddd

 

[Rhynorock]

I trust it will, I dumped a little more dough into it than I originally wanted to lol I still have a long way to go on the truck though. UGH.

 

[Dirtyrat]

A little SPF 45 will keep that crank from getting sunburned!

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[Paul_J]

Looking good. What body style did the S-10 frame come out of? (Extended cab, Std. Cab, long wheel base.....)

 

[Rhynorock]

lol I should start using Lubriplate assembly lube for sunscreen

It WAS a '95 2wd, reg cab, long box s10 with a 4 banger. Goin hoodless and I dont care if the control arms are exposed. I actually pulled the motor back about a foot, and welded gusseted mounts to the frame right above the lower control arm bushings, also raising the engine by a couple inches for the crank pulley to clear the original engine cradle.

 

[skull]

lookin' good

l like it, cool little project,

keep the updates coming.

Later

 

[Rhynorock]

Hopin monday to get back to work on it. Life has gotten in the way and it's stalled out on me. Gonna fab up a core support and do some more checking, maybe even fab up my grille.

 

[Rhynorock]

update

Fabbed up the core support, a grille out of window arches, and a rough bumper. The grille's not attached right yet, this was just a mockup to see how it all fit together. Gonna brace the bumper with some heavy gauge steel.

I'm debating on replacing the upper control arms with tubes, then I'm gonna mount trailer fenders to the front spindles once I get the front wheels & tires that I want. I also might grab some drop spindles. I hacked a coil out of each front spring which brought it down some, but I'm not entirely satisfied with the ride height. Maybe it'll squat some more once I get the engine and trans in.

Thoughts anyone?

 

[skull]

fenders

are you running the front sheet metal(fenders/hood/grille) or going fenderless?

if the laws let you run open wheels, with no front sheet metal, no fenders of any kind.

the tube A-arms are good idea.

Later

 

[Rhynorock]

No hood, and only the wheel fenders, like on a prowler.