Thread: 1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn Build

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Originally Posted by 34_40

WOW, 1/4" is stout! Also = HEAVY!

It'll be interesting to see what it weighs when it's done compared to another 72 K20. The steel floor, boxed frame, diesel engine and heavier drivetrain, I'm guessing 6500-6800lbs. We shall see though. My 95 F-350 crew cab with a cummins weighs 7340lbs with a 1/4 tank of fuel and it isn't build out of old school sheet metal.

Sat box on to get rear end centered to set up rear suspension so I could tack everything together and cut my tubing for the link bars.






Welded weldments in the DOM.



Bed back off





Installing air bag brackets.



Installing panhard bar.




Shocks mounted



Side shot of suspension

I had one of my buddies paint an old style shop logo on the door because I've always thought it was cool. He did an awesome job!



My brother sanded and polished my valve cover, then repainted it.




I hated my first trans cross member and after we boxed the frame it wouldn't work. So, I built this instead.




New trans mount



Cross member installed. This was a lot of drilling.




The intercooler was up too high in the radiator support and hit the hood latch. We had to cut the lower portion of the support out and add metal so we could get the intercooler low enough to retain the stock hood latch set up. Then we added gussets to the support to add strength to it.






Due to these changes, my intercooler tubes were now too short. So we fixed that too.




Welding up rear axle and boxing air bag upper mounts.





Finished upper pan hard bracket.



Added another cross member for support under cab.



Added gussets to keep frame from moving in a diamond shape. (I doubt it'd ever do this anyway)