1970 C10 truck with complete c5 drivetrain and suspension with air ride

[abadsvt]

Hi everyone! I have been lurking around here for a while as a guest admiring some of your absolutely beautiful projects and rides. I finally decided to register and share my project with all of you guys. I am new to this kind of build so i am learning as i go. I orginally built a custom tube frame for my truck that utilizes the solid rear end and a LS1 motor but when i went looking for the motor i found an increadible deal on the entire c5 drivetrain so i decided to go that route. So i built a new frame to accomodate all the c5 drivetrain and suspension. I had to extend the torque tube to accomodate the longer wheel base. There are a bunch of other things i did but will let the pictures do some of the talking. I am hoping to have it driveable by this summer so i can make sure i don't have any bugs and everything performs well then it will be torn back down for paint and powdercoating. Enjoy

[abadsvt]

Is this the only way to post pictures are these little attachments? You can't just post the pics in the threads? Thanks

Josh

[syborg tt]

Hi Josh,

Truck looks great.

You can host pics on a site and then use the image button to past in the link to the picture and your pic will be posted

[ccracin]

Josh,

Glad to see you made it over here. I am subscribed to your build over at 47-72 Trucks. Lookin good. You can post in a thread by having your images hosted on a site. I use photobucket, it's free and works fine. I'm sure others around here can give you more choices. Once your images are hosted you just have to copy the link into the body of your test. It will look like this
"[IMG]://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r35/ccracin/Cab_2.jpg[/IMG]" , I left the http out before the // so that you could see the format.


Hope this helps. Welcome again.

[abadsvt]

Thanks guys for the help! I really appreciate it! I will delete the attached pics and then just post them in the thread.

Here is the frame jig i made



Here are a few pics during my build.

[ironworks]

Wow that thing should be cool.

Rodger

[abadsvt]

This is where i am now. This week i plan on starting the stainless steel gas tank then work my way into the motor and the turbos

[XcYZ]

Originally Posted by ironworks

Wow that thing should be cool.

Rodger

x2!

[abadsvt]

Here are two pics with some sheetmetal on. The sun was pretty bright so the pics aren't the best. Anyways enjoy

[syborg tt]

That chassis is so simple and OEM looking - Man that's some great work