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looking for any help with custom project. I have a 1980 chevy crew cub. I would like to put a tip out front clip on it. also suicide the two back doors and shave all four door handles. If there are any kits, plans or ideas to achieve my objectives I would grately appreciate the help. thank you
Don't think any kits made. Your truck is a KING cab. Get a suicide door kit for hotrods, adapt that to the doors or, find a newer truck that has the 2 suicide rear doors stock and, there is no door post and, the rear doors lock into the fronts, you could adapt the mechanisms from these. I woulden't shave the handles cause the electronics for the door releases are hard to wire and expensive.
Sorry Streets, I have always thought that King Cabs were 4 doors ( up until newer trucks started coming out with 4 full doors and being considered crew cabs ), I must have been misguided somewhere early in life to think that crew cabs had ither no rear doors or stock suicide rear doors and, that king cabs were the only 4 full door trucks. All information is good to know.
Streets,
Thanks for the reply. Would you know of any links or web sites I could visit to get an idea of what I going to do for the front clip? Also where could I find the flush door buttons you mentioned? thanks again for your help.
There are several kits out there for shaved doors I used several and they are all about the same you just need to decide how you want it set up I've got wireless remote on my Sedan Delivery www.greganti.com/rambler and buttons on my 64 Fury www.greganti.com/mrmopar they are not that bad to put in I'll be doing my cousins 2003 Chevy next monthQuote:
Originally posted by caddykid
looking for any help with custom project. I have a 1980 chevy crew cub. I would like to put a tip out front clip on it. also suicide the two back doors and shave all four door handles. If there are any kits, plans or ideas to achieve my objectives I would grately appreciate the help. thank you
As far as tilting the front end my 64 is done just like streets said the only thingis I welded my hood and fenders toghter to make the frontend all one piece
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Hope this helps
MM64 :cool:
If you wanted to really stand out, put on those automatic electric ram rod things ( can't remember there names ), have 2, one fer each side and, when you want to open the hood, just pull the latch and, wire a switch on an auto stop ( when it's up ) so you don't have to release it and push a button turning it on, you just release it.
I am probably a little late but I ran into the same problem for a kit for my truck since the doors are so heavy. But were there's a welder there is a way. A buddy and me tackled this project using hinges from a 55-57 chevy car. They are heavy duty and allow for plenty of opening room. I would be lying if I was to say it was easy as a kit but it wasn't that bad. The hinges recess great into the jamb area. The real modification is in the door and the front striker. We had to fabricate a bracket in the door to allow for support and adjustment by using 1" wide metal roughly 3/16 in thick the length of the door. For the front striker we just fabricated as we went (Trial and Error). But we were successful. Hope this helped.