85 3/4 ton excab

[choptop]

You are buying them all aren't you.  I love the concept for this one!

Lol, no I think this is the last one for me. I need to find one for Zeig.

[zieg85]

You are buying them all aren't you.  I love the concept for this one!

Lol, no I think this is the last one for me. I need to find one for Zeig.

Now you're talking!!!

[choptop]

There is a farmer in my county with a six door suburban!

Get us some pics if you can. Id love to see it

[HAULIN IT]

Thanks Lorne, I thought I remembered seeing some spacers that looked likebolted on the the existing hub from the factory but could remember where. I think I have a set of those in the back barn, Time to go for a hunt.
 

In the early '90's we had a bunch of those railroad capable 2wd '73-'87 GM trucks in the junkyards. They had spacers that were about 1 1/2" thick, they weren't enough...the bud wheel hit something. The ones for the "new" independent front 1 ton 4x4's w/bud wheels had some a little wider that worked fine. I'm sure the aftermarket has them also. Have Fun! Lorne 

[rwhit57]

These trucks are built on a longbed frame, so in order to put a shortbed on it, youd still have to cut 4-5 inches off the front of the bed to make it fit, and then of course the rear frame rails. Youd have to either cut a crewcab frame down, or stretch the longbed frame. I will start doing a better job of posting the ones I find here, but there are a few guys that do an awesome job of helping me do that here, and it is appreciated.

You lost me on this one, help me out. If it's on a long bed frame and they stretched the cab, wouldn't the frame have to be stretched to put a long bed back on it? It seems as if the cab stretch was in the 14" range the short bed would be close. I don't know these trucks or how the conversion guys did them, but they are unique and cool. 

[zieg85]

You lost me on this one, help me out. If it's on a long bed frame and they stretched the cab, wouldn't the frame have to be stretched to put a long bed back on it? It seems as if the cab stretch was in the 14" range the short bed would be close. I don't know these trucks or how the conversion guys did them, but they are unique and cool. 
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Basically what they added to the cab they took out off the front of the bed.  Look at the picture on the first page of the grey 2 wheel drive with the small side windows.  Look at the gas door in proximity of the front of the bed.

[rwhit57]

I see how they did it now, that seems like the hard way to do it, at least paint and body wise. That's why from a distance I might have thought it was a short bed.  Thanks

[zieg85]

I see how they did it now, that seems like the hard way to do it, at least paint and body wise. That's why from a distance I might have thought it was a short bed.  Thanks

I agree on the body work wise but it is probably because GM new truck warranty.  Similar to conversion vans....

[choptop]

Thats what I understand about them from one of the saleman that sold them in the 80s. That way the drive train, suspension, and electronics still retained factory warranty, and the conversion company warrantied the body and paint.