"TANGERINE" (C20 to K10) (LWB to SWB) (CST/MOD) (5.3)

[Dieselwrencher]

Perfect for a crew cab then.

[mcbassin]

Nice progress on the wiring. I know how time consuming that can be.

[fakerwade]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Nice progress on the wiring. I know how time consuming that can be.

Yeah,, The wiring makes my head hurt a little. I'm pretty excited though,, I just watched that 71 Blazer sell on Barret Jackson,, for $200,000!!! So I'm busy building my dash and center console now. My upholstery guy said he'd be ready to start on my stuff in about 3 weeks.
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[fakerwade]

So I've been a little under the weather the last few weeks,, stupid cold,, turned in to stupid bronchitis,, made working on the truck kind of tough. I managed to get a little work done.
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I've been hauling the original carpet from the yukon around for the last six years hoping I could use it. So I did a trial fit and found that there were some pretty large humps that are molded in to the carpet. They are there for the heat tubes to travel under the carpet and front seats and blow on the people in the back seat. Since I don't need those tubes and I don't want soft humps in my carpet,, I decided to buy carpet for a 2001 pick up.
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The 2001 pick up carpet
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Bought it from Rock Auto,, I heard this brand is supposed to be pretty good.
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[fakerwade]

I started working on the dash too. Got a little discouraged with all the metal cutting I have to do,, so I bought a new throatless metal sheer. Hopefully that will speed things up!
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[Dieselwrencher]

Nice new carpet. Maybe someone on CL will want your old stuff. The new metal shear sounds like a good investment.

[fakerwade]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Nice new carpet. Maybe someone on CL will want your old stuff. The new metal shear sounds like a good investment.

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Used the shears today,,, worked great!!! (thanks eastwood!!) I'll post a pic later. The old carpet is serving me well as a semi-comforatable way of getting under the truck and cleaning up the frame. I do have a lot of stuff to do the CL thing with,, including the stock Yukon fuel tank. I finally made a decision ( after 6 years) The stock tank has got to go,, and the spare tire and the single exhaust!! The new custom built tank will go where the spare tire was and that will lend room for the new DUAL exhaust (what's a cool truck without dual exhaust??) .

[7dee2]

And I thought our old A/C dash was tight, jeez!

[lower50's]

You got to have dual exhaust.

[Trixxterr]

Wow. This is an insane swap. Way more than I could pull off. I'm going to have to check on wheel base lengths. Maybe a suburban would work for mine.

[fakerwade]

Originally Posted by 7dee2

And I thought our old A/C dash was tight, jeez!

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True that! I guess I could bring it more in to the cab,,, but I like the roominess of keeping it close to to the windshield.
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Originally Posted by lower50's

You got to have dual exhaust.

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I like the way you think!!
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Originally Posted by Trixxterr

Wow. This is an insane swap. Way more than I could pull off. I'm going to have to check on wheel base lengths. Maybe a suburban would work for mine.

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Hey Trixxterr,, thanks for joining the fun!! My original idea was to build a Suburban on a newer chassis,, but when I seen how closely the wheelbase of a Yukon/Tahoe matched up with the wheelbase of a shortbox,, plans changed!! .

[fakerwade]

Here's the new metal sheer.
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[lower50's]

What brand is your sheer?

[fakerwade]

It's an Eastwood,,,throatless sheer. About $160

[7dee2]

New tools are just the best!

[fakerwade]

Okay,, I'm back,, and I found my camera! So I spent a lot of time last year cleaning all the rust off the frame. I don't know why it had so much RUST!! The donor Yukon came from North Idaho,, where they do not salt the roads,, so,, beats me why so much rust. Anyway,, I also welded up a lot of the "tie down" holes in the frame too.
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[fakerwade]

I also got rid of the factory fuel tank and installed a custom made beauty. The factory cross member in front of the tank wasn't going to cut it,, so I cut it out and built a new one.
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[fakerwade]

I started to build the frame work for the bed but it looked like the tops of the shock mounts were just a little too tall and might interfere,, so I modified them with strength in mind.
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[fakerwade]

So here is a picture with the bed frame work a little further along and some test fitting of the bedsides.
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[fakerwade]

Here's a couple more pictures of the new cross member modification.
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[Palf70Step]

Glad you found everything and are able to entertain us again.

Really nice work!

[fakerwade]

more updates, it wasn't the most productive year but progress was made. Got the fronnt of the frame rails finished.

[fakerwade]

Trying to use a new online photo storage,,, but it doesn't seem to be working. I think the photo's file size is too large. I'm trying to use Flickr,, just don't know how to re-size the photo's with that site.

[fakerwade]

[fakerwade]

Okay,, switched to photobucket,, we'll see how this works. Painted and Dyna matted the firewall.