A tale of three trucks or, three trucks enter, two leave

[renegade6]

This may end up going into two separate builds, but for now it will be one. To start we have the following:

The Wife's truck: 72 K20 long bed stepside with a 350/350 and pretty plain. It had a partial restoration and while it looks good, they did some shortcuts on body work that will have to be addressed later. It has a low idle miss that goes away with RPM and I think the cam is probably about gone. The plan is to leave it pretty plain, but put a 6.0 LS and 700R4 to help with driveability.

My truck: 72 K20 Long bed with a 396, 700R4 and an Old Air conditioning system. Fortunately, it hasn't really been messed with so, what you see is what you get. Runs fantastic and minus some minor brake issues, made a 5 hour trip when I bought it. Plan is to fix the rust and body work and put a flatbed on it. I don't plan on going back completely stock, nor do I plan on making it a show truck. Just a good running truck to use on the property and tow with. Depending on funds, I may go fuel injected, but will have to see

The donor: 2001 Sierra 2500 2WD with a lot of miles. Even though it has high miles, it runs great. This one isn't going to make it out of this alive. Engine is going in the Wife's truck, flatbed is going on mine and the rest will be parted out.

Way Ahead: I'm going to start with the engine and transmission swap in the wife's truck and then start bodywork on mine.

Stay tuned.