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Old 01-04-2019, 05:40 PM   #1
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C60 help

Bought a c60 going to turn it into my toy hauler need lots of help is the cab and doors the same as the truck don't have it home yet has 427 in it.
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Old 01-04-2019, 07:20 PM   #2
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Re: C60 help

No the doors have the front lower corner cut , And the lower firewall / foot board is at a different angle from the pickup even the gauge cluster is slightly different , The 427 is going to be a tall deck engine that is different from a car short deck 427 by a lot .leave it a dump truck and find something that will cruise down the highway easier .
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Old 01-04-2019, 07:31 PM   #3
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Re: C60 help

I was thinking of a 4x4 frame or a longhorns frame or a c30 frame will the c60 go on these frames with a truck bed
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Old 01-04-2019, 07:42 PM   #4
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Re: C60 help

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The doors are easy to modify because the inner structure doesn't need any work, and they are usually in good shape.The cabs are basically the same except for the cutouts in the doors and floorboard for the front fenders.... A friend of mine and I put a complete C50 floor in his K10 a few years ago. We had to modify the front floor where the pinch weld is but it was pretty easy.

Like Grumpy said there are some differences.

I can guarantee the floor pans are the same except for the front corners and where the trans hump meets the front toe board, and those areas aren't that hard to massage....

Here is the thread where we put the C50 floor pan in the K10:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=490272

Here is a thread on some of the firewall area differences in the C50 and C10/20....

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=657508

As far as the cluster all you have to do is trim the plastic up to the next line where it fits around the steering column. That cluster should also have the 80# oil pressure gauge along with the Vac gauge.

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Old 01-04-2019, 07:43 PM   #5
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I was thinking of a 4x4 frame or a longhorns frame or a c30 frame will the c60 go on these frames with a truck bed
Sure, With a plasma cutter , welder and a bunch of fab work . They are not a plug and play conversion , Use the search option and see what others have done to use them . Body is different , fenders are different , hood is different ,interior floor is flat , even the cab corners are different ,
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I was thinking of a 4x4 frame or a longhorns frame or a c30 frame will the c60 go on these frames with a truck bed
Quite a few guys have put pickup beds on the big trucks by shortening the frames. If you type "C40 pickup" into the Google search box above and click on the circle in front of "67-72chevytrucks.com" and click on the Google button you can see some.....

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Old 01-04-2019, 09:41 PM   #7
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Re: C60 help

I moved your thread to Heavy Haulers where over 1t trucks have their own place and they guys who know the most about them hang. Check this forum out to see what others have done.
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Old 01-04-2019, 09:57 PM   #8
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Re: C60 help

That's a nice heavy truck with Wide Front Fenders. They will be hard to fill with a 1-Ton chassis. I agree, if it were mine, I would be leaving it original.
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:31 PM   #9
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Re: C60 help

I probably sound like a broken record on posts like this by now...

Toy hauler would be really cool if you keep the original drive train and frame. Maybe pull the dump body and put a 5th wheel on for a goose neck, or extended the frame for a flat bed/ramp truck. Would look slick with a pickup behind or on it.

Could just do a newer engine and transmission too.... but if you're just going to yank the cab and front clip and stuff it on a 1-ton, find a 67-72 1-ton instead to haul stuff. Down-right tired of guys chopping these heavy haulers up.
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:40 PM   #10
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Re: C60 help

All the trucks I have I keeped stock. Stock to me is the only way to go. Saved this truck from going the scrap yard just wanted the gaugecluster untill he said that he only wanted $500.00 or he was going to scrap it or the next guy that came along would have scraped it I guess I saved it for now.
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Old 01-04-2019, 11:06 PM   #11
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Re: C60 help

Glad to see that it got saved.

It looks to be pretty solid and very restore-able.

What is the GVW on it?

I'm going to guess around 24,000.
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Old 01-05-2019, 09:32 AM   #12
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Re: C60 help

It is very solid and it is 24000
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Old 01-05-2019, 04:29 PM   #13
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Re: C60 help

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I moved your thread to Heavy Haulers where over 1t trucks have their own place and they guys who know the most about them hang. Check this forum out to see what others have done.
Put it here for a reason their not many member going to the heavy hauler
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Old 01-10-2019, 08:48 PM   #14
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Re: C60 help

Looks like chrome grill trim, headlight bezels and bumper; I'd kill for a 500 dollar truck with that stuff. Seems like it is usually just on the fire trucks.
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Re: C60 help

This truck even has factory A/C in the cab first one I ever saw with A/C
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Old 01-10-2019, 10:13 PM   #16
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Re: C60 help

May want to validate the 427. From the looks of the hood, single vent and no 427 badging, it is probably the 366. The 366 equipped trucks had the vent on my on the drivers side like this one.
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