[gigamanx]

I'm not the one who did the rear end swap. I happened to have had a long bed already. This thread is the most recent I can think of, but not very descriptive

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=750872

Anytime you're in E-town, give me a holler. I'm maybe 15 minutes from there.

This might be the link everyone talks about. Photobucket broke the pictures, so I "borrowed" them for you

https://www.killbillet.com/showthrea...-(step-by-step)

Normally what guys use for these swaps is a long bed regular cab S10 because the wheel base is almost perfectly matched to the 48 truck's 116" wheelbase. My donor is a short bed and only 108" so I had to correct this issue. The cool thing is that the front leaf spring mounts are riveted to the frame. I just popped the rivets out, moved teh mounts back 8" and drilled new holes and bolted them on with grade 8 bolts. the rear hole on the bottom could not be bolted due to interference with some bracing so I just plug welded that hole and welded around that end of the mount.





Now for the rear mounts. The rear mount is kinda built into the frame:





...so I couldn't slide those back very easily. So after a little measuring I cut the last 11" off the frame on both sides and swaped them side to side effectively moving the rear mounts back 8".









Then we threw the springs and 8.8 under it: