Perry & all:
When I remeasured I found that you are right on the money.
I plan to pick up this front end right away. I'll keep everyone up to
speed on my porogress.
I want to a cruise last night. There was a Task Force GMC there. I
looked down into the engine compartment o check out the width between the
frame rails. WOW, was I envious? You guys got tons of space The AD frame
with a small block looks cramped in comparison.
Mark Self
'55 1st 5-window
-----Original Message-----
From: Perry Smith <perigrinefalcon@netscape.net>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 7:34 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] AD suspension mods
>Hi All,
>Went to the bone yard and did some measurements, the frame is 29 1/8" wide
at
>the crossmember and the frame rails measure from about 5 1/4" to about 6 ",
>depending on model Chev, GMC, 1/2 or 3/4 ton etc, this is a massive
structure,
>it includes the crossmember, motormount perches, and upper A-arm mounts,
lower
>A-arms mount to the crossmember. The frame is arched upwards at the
>crossmember. the wheel track measured from the wheel mount lands on the
rotor
>hubs is about 64". I hope this is of some help for you guys. As for me the
>whole assy. is not wide enough for my 58 GMC which has a frame width of
about
>34 1/4".
>good luck to all.
>
>Perry
>
>58 GMC Fleetside (fleet truck)
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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