Barn raising

[Mike Bradbury]

I bought a Lincoln 9" rear that came standard with disc that I had completely rebuilt. Nice rear end but I sure did not save any money doing it this way. I could have just bought a complete Strange rear end for the money I have put into this one. The cool thing is that the big Lincolns had 5 on 5 lug pattern.
My plan is to convert from a C20 to a C10.


I have a hoist in my garage so it makes it easy to lift the bed on and off. Probably the cab too but I have not gotten that far.


Little vid of it in action, only trouble I had was the tail light harness got on the wrong side of the frame and I had to re route it.

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[Mike Bradbury]

Took the entire front x-member off and had it powder coated. I have an oven at the shop so I was able to do some of the small parts like the springs, pan, and spindles etc... but I left the large items to the pros. Here I just sanded down the frame and rattle canned it. Came out better than I thought it would. Also got some of the last Coy's C-55s They have been discontinued and there are not many left. I guess they are going to make a new style

[Mike Bradbury]

Yeah the original owner was going to donate it to a homeless shelter where they probably would have beat it to death. He asked if I could afford $1000 and I said no but I have $700. He died a year after he sold it to me.

[Mike Bradbury]

Wheels came before the tires did so after I had the lower springs and the lower spindles I put a wheel on and jacked up the LCA until the truck lifted off the jack stand. here it is at ride height, there is 6 inches between the top of the wheel and the fender. My side wall of the tires is 5.8 inches. It should look real nice.



Invested in the Early Classics disc brake conversion.



Also had a 700r4 rebuilt. So by the time I am done with it, the oldest part in the drive train will be the 350 crate with 14,000 on it.

[Mike Bradbury]

Borrowed my neighbors tires so that I could turn it around and get the bed off and work on the rear end. Looked like a funny car with the 27 inch tall Burban tires and the tall C20 tires in back.



An hour later this is what it looked like.

[Mike Bradbury]

I was in the middle of building my own set of trailing arms when Nate revealed the latest Porter Built product. Since my arms are going onto a custom 9" rear I was able to weld the brackets in such a way that I did not need to bend them. I am also going to be putting Bilstein coil overs behind the rear axle, so it is going to be a unique setup.



Nate let me know size and brand of rod ends he was using and they are going to work great. Did not like the poly bushings that I had on there first. Thanks Nate they make all the difference.

[Mike Bradbury]

Rather than disassemble the third member after it was just rebuilt to have it powder coated I tried my hand at some PPG silver. It came out pretty nice I think. Three coats of base and five clear. Not that I needed that much but I still had paint left in the gun and did not want to waste it.



Here is the first fit up of the big Lincoln rotors



From the rear you can see the pan hard bracket and coil over bracket. Everything has close tolerances but it all articulates just fine.



Coil overs mounted in the bottom lining up the top bracket placement