Dennisch' Pickup! Frontendtification!

[Dennisch]

A box of ball joints!

Freshly painted control arms!

Removal of old icky parts!

To go from old on the left to old new on the right!

And as a bonus, something I didn't notice until I had a really close look:

The old spindles are drop spindles and they go down a good 6,5 cm. So that's another bit of raising the car, together with the bigger wheels.

I can already feel the driving comfort .

 

[Dennisch]

It fits! That's the C2500 control arm mounted to my c1500 chassis.

*and the crowd sighs in relieve*

 

[Dennisch]

Shiny white spring is shiny. It was already white but it was a sad white. A new coat makes it happy white again .

How to press in a new lower ball joint.

From bottom to top: wood - steel plates - pipe - control arm - ball joint - pipe - hammer.

The difference in size for the front. Old in front. Together with the spindles it raises the front by 15cm.

BUT THE JOB IS DONE!! Short bed pickup with heavy duty suspension parts .

 

[Dennisch]

Raised the rear by 4 centimeters by using the lower hole. Going to look for original shackles so that it raises the rear even more, and then sell these together with the lowered spindles from the front.

Also.

We've reached equilibrium, well almost, mine's a centimeter lower still.

 

[Dennisch]

It has a new face. Original 1976 GMC grille.

I should visit this thread more often, as I have a giant pile of parts for the pickup ready to be bolted on.