84 Crewcab...AKA..Patches

totaly agreed doc.you dont want the metal fatigue...and flappers kickass.....tho im partial to cutoff wheels with a very fine touch..i can take a rivit off without nicking the frame if i want to.....even still ill useualy use a flapper to get all of em "close" before going in with a light touch and a cut off wheel
 
I wish the junkyard were closer. It's littered with old Dodge trucks, well back into the '60s. Well, it was the last time I was there, anyhow. :(
 
cow if your serious..how soo do you need it....im pretty broke this second waiting on some funds to get sent up to me for a few things...as soon as i have the money ill GLADLY go grab you a bracket box and arm...that stuff is EVERYWHERE down here..and IMO 3x safer than that 2wd crap used as 4x parts....fishy wrecked his truck cause of that 2x setup BS
 
I'm serious...but No rush though. I will be putting things together with the stock set-up for now. But if I can get the bracket and pitman arm then I will slowly get all the rest of the pieces to do the conversion.
 
i can get you those EASY..in fact i might have em laying around as well...i know in this pile of stuff we found the bits to fix fishys RC.....those parts are crazy easy to find
 
If, and when, you find those parts just let me know what I owe you. I will send the money paypal, or money order...whatever works best for you.
 
The tear down of the donor 93 continues.....Got most of the interior stripped out. My friend who's getting the cab will be so happy with how clean it is. Just a little surface rust on the drivers side floor...that's it!! A little wire wheel work, and a couple coats of tremclad paint and that floors good for another 20 years.

 
I had hoped to use the nice grey bench seat in the crewcab. Replacing the red rear seat was the plan. Well I wrestled the old one out,and then installed the grey bench from the 93. It turns out that a clubcab bench seat is off set, or short, on the passenger side. Here are some pics to show the difference.

Drivers side....



Passenger side....



Also turns out the base of the grey bench is longer then the stock rear bench. And the angle of the seat, and or the seat tracks, is greater then the orignal as well.





So needless to say I didn't keep it in the truck. Back in went the red seat and I will just have to get a good grey seat cover for now until I can have it re-upholstered.
 
And I tore down the transfer case for it's conversion from 23 spline to 29 spline input shaft. Never torn into a T-case before, so was a little worried. But found a couple sources on-line with great write ups and followed them. All went well.

Before..



After with case all cleaned up...





Now I have to get the parts down to my machinist to get the work done.
 
I had hoped to use the inner fenders, but the drivers side was too rusty, and then once I got the pass. side out I found it was rusty too. So I removed the mystery brackets and tossed them. I will reveld those brackets onto my good inner fenders on the crewcab later.




I also removed the shocks...all 4 were original units!! These are the rear shocks.



And this is basically how the truck sits now. Another day or two and it should be ready to come off the frame and go to it's new home.

 
that offset seat isnt soo bad till you sit on it and are like WTF my ass is hanging off the seat where i SHOULD be sitting
 
Guess the off set is on the clubcab only. Since the passenger side is usually where the people would be climbing into the back of the truck. So by having it off set gave the people a little more foot room to step up and into the back.
 
yup thats the idea....up untill getting this 74 club id never noticed....kinda like the way the passenger bucket on an RC has a "latch" to flip the whole seat forward
 
Been busy busy finishing the tear down of the donor 93....and working on the T-case etc. Pics and info to follow....

Got the rear diff out. Which was no problem. Getting the springs off...well that took me a lot longer.



3 of the 4 bolts were seized to the inner spring bushing metal liners. So I Decided since I wasn't using the frame or brackets I would just cut the front of the eyes off.







Next was getting the spring free...had to cook the rubber until it was soft enough to slide off. The rear spring mounts...which I knew were in rough shape...turned out to be paper thing. All the rust flaked off when I was beating on the bolts trying to free them up.

 
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And the cab just sitting there. We moved it off the frame so I could finish tearing the frame down.





And a day or two later all that was left was a frame....

 
Then I had to get all the front 4wd brackets and cross members off. So removal of the rivets was at hand. I ended up drilling out the heads of most of the rivets...then using a HD punch and a 3lb hammer to pound them loose.



Only ones I used a grinder on were the main engine cross member...sionce they were easily accessed.



And all the 4wd brackets removed. Too me about 5-6 hours to get all the brackets off.

 
And the frame pretty much ready to be cut up and hauled away.



Now to cut up the frame I was not sure how I was going to do this...until my neighbor, and friend, asked if I wanted to use his plasma cutter from his work....HELL YEAH I DO!!!



15 minutes after getting the plasma cutter home this is all that is left of the frame.



I'm keeping the front frame horns as templates and reference for drilling and positioning the brackets into the crewcab frame.

 
And that's about all she wrote for the donor 93...now it's sell a few more parts to recoup some of my initial outlay....already recouped over 1/2 the purchase price for the donor 93!!

I will start tearing into the crewcab in the next day or so.
 
I've had the machine work done to the transfer case so I can run the bigger 29 spline input shaft and bearing. Dropped it off at my machinist and he had it done in a couple hours....and charged me $60....:)

Before...





And after...





And the difference in the bearings...



I should have the T-case finished up tomorrow I hope. Been working on it for a few weeks now...just a few minutes here and there, when I have time between everything else.
 
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