57 Chevy Truck on a Tahoe Chassis Swap Part 3!
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57 Chevy on a Tahoe with E_Z Chassis Swap.
In this video I worked on the alignment of the cab and bed, as well as disassembly of the cab.
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We call that a stomp starter, good story’s, I’ve had a few junk yard finds , usually change $$ under the seat😀😀
Stump starter I haven’t heard that term. Thank you for sharing. Appreciate you watching going along with the journey with us.
In 1972 I had a 58 I painted the interior with 64 stock silver and the top of the dash black lacquer rubbed out every 5 coats I did looked like a pool of water I got more compliments on that the outside side was stock Chevy red alway regretted not doing the silver on the outside that interior color was so sweet
I will keep that in mind thank you for joining us on our journey
A shop tour would be cool , if u don't mind. The fuel tank situation if u have to have the original fill location then just gravity feed from the original to the tahoe tank.
I will see if it will gravity feed. If not, I may have to add a pump.
Oops it the comment button to soon lol yes some of the old cars and trucks had some neat add ons to them.Yes like your shop great size mine not so much .Your getting more done on the 57 should make a great driver well done sir great video thank you
Thanks for watching and your encouragement. This is my first built like this and my first video series.
Spare tank idea is awesome!!
Thank you I’m thinking it would be pretty handy
I would put a fuel gauge on both tanks tho, if it was mine.
Very cool Russell!
Thank you
Good day sir I like the idea you have for your fuel tanks
Thank you I’m leaning that way
It's a real pleasure to watch your videos. I to am handy capable. I have 3 major issues I have a muscular dystrophy disease thats making my legs give way. It's called CMT type 2, then there is the rheumatoid arthritis nasty problem. And then the big one a Masive heart attack 4 way bi pass and I am trying to cope with round 2. Way slower now problems exerting myself. Still getting around. I got a 1 ton 56 chev cab on a 78 frame and rear end and a 4x4 front end out of a half ton chevy, with a custom flat bed with stacks. And a wee little Ole 500 Cadillac big block squeezed in ner her hood her is Berta and she sports a set of dually also with a custom front bumper and a set of aluminum running boards and fender flares.
How can I see a photo?
Funny enough, I found another brand new TH-camr doing the same swap. He also cut his mounts loose and moved them exactly 1.5".
Yes, Joffrey and his dad
Hey ur doing good. Take ur time do what u can when u can. Main thing is do what U want Don’t listen to some of the comments. They r made they can’t do it. Keep em going 👍
I needed that. Thank you so much. I was overwhelmed tonight. I was out working with my wife and quit, overwhelmed by the vintage air in all of the AC parts, and that’s just one of the many systems.
Love watching your channel keep up the good work and yeah shop tour would be great, sending love and prayers from us all here in England x
Thank you from across the pond.
Russel, a stovebolt refers to a six cylinder engine, clutch head bolts and screws are de riguer for 55-59 Chevy and GMC trucks, panels and carryalls plus I used to take the gas tank out of the cab that system always stiks of gas in the cab, plus I did a Z28 front clip on my 57 and centered the front wheelin the wheel house so I get it. Cool truck keep it going loving your build.
Thank you I have a couple of new surprises on the latest videos
Love the build !
Part two and three are also out. I don’t know if you’ve seen those but part four should come out Saturday afternoon.
I know the video has been out for awhile but , yes on the full fender, and love the idea with the gas tank, I have a 55 truck on my channel it’s a long bed but not really sure how long, it’s at my property so I will have to measure didn’t know there were so many lengths, you are doing a great job, also dig your shop😆clutch head, I think the first series trucks were Stovebolts😀
How do I find your channel?
@@russellmcconahay7297 Desert Rat Fabrication
Great job, we are just getting started on my wife's 57 3100. It was her dad's truck and he bought it brand new. Your story's are part of the adventure.
Thanks for joining us.
Got me hooked on your channel and the way you film too. Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I will be here when she is finished. Keep up the good work.
We are hoping that the creek does rise because we are in a draught her in Utah HaHa
When I was little about 3 we had a 60 Rambler and we filled it with stones.
I’m not alone
Really enjoying your project and the nice simple filming is great , your microphone worked fine during the walk around. I think you can probably get the original Tahoe fuel tank to hook up and keep the original tank out for more storage put your design efforts into other parts of the build. Thanks for sharing and stay safe 👍
The holding tank idea is genius.
Thanks
gotta admit I like how you have set it up, it looks in proportion to me
Yeah, the first time I said it down on the frame I was pretty excited
Shop tour 👍
I need the tidying up first. It’s a mess right now.
1997(and up) Corvettes have two fuel tanks , so it's entirely possible to transfer fuel between two tanks safely and efficiently...
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I will have to look into the system they use
The bed gap "issue" will more than likely "go away" dependent on the color that you decide to paint the truck. I look at it this way, it will bother you more than any one else that comes to admire your work. I had an "older gentleman" tell me something when I was a teenager working on the body of my first car, which was a 65' Pontiac 2+2. I had only two bottlecap hub caps and two full cover wheel covers. I thought it would look dumb with them mis-matched. He said if I put the same ones on one side and the other on the other side, a person can only look at one side at a time. It took a quite awhile before any of my buddies noticed the difference. I finally got the other two bottlecap hubcaps and then proceeded to wreck the car beyond repair.
I love that that is good advice for many things in life
Your body and bed mount position is spot on. You have a good eye .I like your twin fuel tank idea and the original handbrake will maintain some originality in the cab. I hope you can get that to work. Be safe.
Thank you it’s good to have a little encouragement. Sometimes I just walk in circles around the truck and don’t know what to do a little overwhelmed.
cab/ bed .just add some square stock down the side of the bed. For the gas tank plum in from the cab to the new tank location. Remove old tank out of cab use the new space. Enjoy the new old truck. Thanks for sharing this project.
Thanks for watching it. Amazing how kind people are. It’s been fun to get everyone’s response.
It's coming along nicely, my 67 ls powered truck I used originally tank behind seat ,I dropped an electric pump into it using original pickup tube with modifications n a return fuel line .once in a while I smell gasoline fumes coming from cap breathing if the window is open as the vehicle coming to a stop sign or red-light. God bless yall real good.
Thank you
Ditch that old in cab tank , eliminating fuel smell in cab , owned several of those old trucks in my 61 years and fuel smell is a problem . LOVE your truck by the way
Thank you I haven’t figured out. How did you completely and still keep my filler cap in the original position
Good idea on gas tank I’ve had a couple like that. Fill both. Use 1. Til it run s out then flip over to other. Nothing wrong with that. Keep em going 👍
Thanks for the encouragement I need it. I’m a little overwhelmed, but I have to keep moving. I want to drive this thing.
Love the idea of using the original gas tank and pumping to Tahoe -
Btw, I have bad knees and use a wheeled stool
I’m thinking that that would be a fairly simple fix
@@russellmcconahay7297 btw, I have a 1954 - 3100 powered by a 235 ci - really enjoy your project - thank you for sharing
I think a fuel pump to fill from the factory tank to the Tahoe tank is over complicating it just gravity feed it from the top tank to the Tahoe tank and fill it from one spot. As simple as an outlet and a hose.
No problem I have the inlet for the Tahoe is above the bed level so it will be difficult to get gravity feed from the truck, spout filler tube into the tank without going uphill
People keep the original tank and have it fill another all the time and it works fine. It's not a bad idea at all.
So you’ve heard of this before then.
Let the stock tank be gravity fed to the poly tank. Maybe adjust the float to show full when both tanks are full. I would build a temporary paint booth unless you are painting on a regular basis.
The gravity feed would work if I knew how to put a inlet into that plastic tank that wouldn’t leak.
@@russellmcconahay7297 Maybe a bulkhead type fitting. Cut a hole and screw it on. Might want to reach out to Brent at #halfasscustoms. I think he did something similar on a 58.
Use floating pedal assembly from Tahoe and install the original pedal to it , just a thought
I’m gonna look on the Tahoe and see what I can salvage
I like your idea for the fuel Tank problem. I know you could put a pump in the factory tank. But who wants to listen to that run going down the road. Think you have a amazing project going on. Can't wait to see it done. I really think your going to love the ride from the newer chassis with the coil spring rear. Should feel like your riding on a pillow. I have 3 Tahoe's and they all ride great and in Minnesota they get around in the deep snow in the winter like champs. Amazing job your doing.
Thank you we have a lot of snow here. I’m looking forward to being able to go somewhere. The 57 would just get stuck in 3 inches of snow. I don’t know how the old-timers ever got anywhere. They must’ve use chains all winter long
@@russellmcconahay7297 my father n law told me stories about studded tires and chains where a necessary evil to get around. Tires have come a long way from the 40 50 60 70 and the 80s.
The 50s body style trucks are amazing. A friend of mine bought one 20 years ago and the guy who V8 swapped it didn't know much about firing order and points gap. Motor turned out to be a stock 283 not a hot 327. It was still cool after I got it running good. It ran so smoothly it wouldn't spill a full glass of water sitting on the air cleaner. He did a bunch of work to it and ran out of money and sold the project before I knew it was gone. Keep up the good work can't wait to see more progress on yours.
I added a refer tank into the box of my '82 GMC 6.2 Diesel 5spd, plumbed in a windshield antifreeze pump. This added 55 gals capacity to the original 20 gal truck tank. On the fly I could fill the truck tank almost 3 times, extending the miles between fills to ~ 1700 miles
I will look into that
If you use two electric fans mounted on radiator you will increase distance n cane move the cab back to a normal bed space .
I’m still worried about the wheel position in the fender, but I may have to go to electric fans because I was struggling tonight to get the radiator in . I should have the details of the radiator install in the next video.
Please do the shop tour. Also I wished I was offered a 1950 thru 1957 cab. I could start collecting parts for my build.
I didn’t buy the cab but there is one available in my hometown. Reply back if you’re interested it’s here in Utah
@@russellmcconahay7297 I'd like to have it . I'm sure to ship to Rome Georgia would be expensive.
The name for the bolts in your truck common in the fifty's Chevys. It's called a double d just like steering shaft .
Thanks sir the reminder I need to order the steering shaft
I did something similar to my f350 fuel tank using a bed fuel tank. I just put a valve in the bottom and let it gravity feed. It works just great. I can even let it transfer while im driving if i leave the valve open
I don’t think I’ll get gravity to feed the whole way, but I think if I had a little pump it would do it just a fuel pump in line electric. Doesn’t an in-line electric fuel pump. I have enough pull to create a vacuum from a tank and pull it up and get flowing ?
I was thinking of rotating the plastic tank around so that the filler spout is nearer to the old filler spout, the tank mounts on the plastic tank may have to be altered, but you would be able to link the 2 tank's together.
A simple external fuel pump linked to a switch on the dash would help in filling the plastic tank from the steel tank in the cab.
Helped a guy in the 70's fit 2 tanks to a 1968 long wheel based land rover, using a external electric fuel pump to pump fuel from the rear tank factory mount to the second tank that could be mounted under the front seat of the land rover,like the short 88 inch wheel base land rover would have mounted.
Both tanks had sender units with gauges on the dash, if you only want 1 guage you can use a 2 way switch to switch between the main tank and the secondary tank.
I think someone has already said about rotation of the tank to have the filler pipe closer to the cab.
But most of all it is your choice that matters more than anyone else, pickup truck is look good.
I think I’m going to try gravity feed and if that doesn’t work, I will probably play some pump. Can you please say electric fuel pump in line down inside of the tank?
You could turn the tank endo and it would be heading in the right direction.
I need to get Cab off and get it up on the left and see what that looks like.
Might be annoying to do but could you put a bulk head fitting in the front of the plastic tank and weld a fitting to the bottom of the original tank and run a 1 inch line between them. Gravity feed would work without the need for a pump. If you don't want to mess with the fuel tanks a low pressure pump would work great to pull fuel out through the factory pickup. It would just need to be on a switch
I like the gravity feed idea.
Keep the old gas tank. Thanks 😊
Kind of leaning that way
I've lost fingertip skit many times dealing with those "clutch head" screws.
Yes, they’re kind of aggressive
The tank issue could be easily solved but will cost a little. First get another tank for the Tahoe. Cut the fill area off both tanks. The new tank holde should be cut small so you can settle cut off from old tank and panel bond to the new tank pointing forward. Take the tank from the inside and weld a pipe to the fill spout and run down to the bottom the cab . Then run pipe to the tank.
You can split hold tank and run the pipe through the tank...no one would know what you did. SUPER TRICK.
Thank you for the ideas. Lots to consider.
I would use your second idea on the gas tank.. You will even get more driving range..
I think it would be fairly easy to rig up and I think I could do it safely.
transfer pipe from one tank to the other easy fix no fuel pump needed in the cab it will always fill the tahoe tank
The problem I have there’s no way to route the Tahoe take to the 57 inlet without going uphill somewhere along the frame to get to the inlet of the Tahoe
@@russellmcconahay7297 drill top of tank install a treaded fitting like they do on barrels run you line straight down into it no uphill
Some of those Tahoes have drive by wire , instead of cable type pedal assembly
Yeah, I wonder if it will convert over to drive by wire
yeah screws are clutch head screws i bought speical screw drivers lol gaps arounds wheels get close enough call done way cheaper and easyer
Yes, I think I’m happy with it
It was a TH-cam channel. Custom fuel tanks??. I believe that's how they went. They would take out the original fuel tank of vehicles and put in a larger India existing frame. They might be able to help you with the fill neck relocation by installing a larger that way you do not have to make any extra holes in your truck. I'm digging it. If you don't mind tell us where you bought your kit for the for the rest restomod. In the price if you don't mind. I really what you have here. Thank you and God bless. I'm holding my breath the next video.
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Can you spin the tank around or will that not work properly not I'm guessing but if you could turn the tank around then you could use the factory filler
No, it’s molded, right and all of the nooks and crannies of the frame.
I’m going to look into that
Was 63 years ago, a touch more maybe that I did the fill dads tank and use a grease gun to fill his tires with.... those poor valve stems. Have you watched powernation?? They used the chevy six, a 235 and added a turbo.... with only five pounds of boost, it on the dyno produced safely 600 horsepower and almost eight hundred pounds of torque... and its not a expensive thing to do. Just do the idle up to the stop light and ask "Pink Slips"??? Ya, I'm just running a six cylinder... and then watch some fat like 9:00 X15 tires start melting down as you pull away like a big dog! Ya, we are too old to do that but hey for just one time for the "Gipper", just have some fun. This is not a fancy turbo or other stuff. I am sure that you could look at their playlist and find it. I was (too old now) a mechanic for everything that came through the door to heavy equipment working in the field. I am relatively certain this is not a hard thing to do, would give you power to pull top gears and get some great mileage. I am certain the motor you have has pressurized bearings (incerts) on the rods so its not going to fly apart, it would actually last longer and no head work required.... I am trying to talk you into it/LOL.
I’d like to find more information on that that sounds crazy.
@@russellmcconahay7297 th-cam.com/video/xsNMrXDB5i4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=POWERNATION
this one can get you started
PS the top of the dash from factory had w hat kind of looked like zolatone to make it look like leather and painted black I sandeit off the inside was a Chevy silver but the 64 Ford silver was so much better
So it had a little bit of a texture original?
Why wouldn’t a Silverado fuel tank work they fill up on side I would think a little additional tubing you could match cab filler up
I will have to look into that
I had a possible option number 3 on your fuel tank issue... Of course I'd have to look at it more closer... Is crazy idea... could you just spin the tank around a 180ﾟ I mean the pump and everything is pretty much in the center of the tank so you shouldn't have to move any of the lines or anything Just spin the pump or the tank how are you look at it... Then your tank's fill lines will be in the front under the cab and all you have to do is connect up to your original fuel spout through the floor of the cab. of course you might have to do something different with brackets might be able to use the brackets you already got maybe and you're going to have to customize up a heat shield probably I don't see why that idea wouldn't work I mean it's not like you're having to contour to the floors of a Tahoe to worry about.
I have a ton of those clutch type screws on an Old 68 Rambler Holiday camper of mine That's what they used on everything...
I’m going to look into switching that tank around. Thanks for the suggestion.
Iya beat me to it @justinhobart7063 just watched this video and was going to say the same thing that would put the filler neck on the same side as the origional a couple of bends and your there
I wonder if you could make a transfer tube out of SS exhaust tubing from the inlet of the Tahoe tank up to the bottom of the original tank?
Yes, I wanna do something like that. I don’t know exactly what yet I’ll have to figure it out when I get there.
Looks good up to here. Where is part 1&2
Go to my channel, then click the videos button you should be able to see them all
57 Chevy Truck on 2001 4x4 Chevy Tahoe frame. PART 1Crazylegs Creations
th-cam.com/video/CHk_B0nYODI/w-d-xo.html
If you turned fuel inlet around on top of tank and extended the fuel tube any chance that works.
I have received several suggestions to do that. I will have to look into that.
Can't you move the box forward and the fenders back? Or just the fenders back an inch.
There’s about a half inch between the steak pocket or back post and the fender on the back edge.
Illinois here....Looking for a small window Chevy cab!
I know where 57 cab is they have done some modifications to it. The door knobs are trimmed off of the doors. It’s a GMC they have two different front clips with it one as welded together so it can hinge up as one piece. The other is original. It’s on a frame that’s been dropped and he probably wants 2500 and there is a bed with fenders short bed.
@@russellmcconahay7297 I'm interested in a chevy cab, but thanks!
I have the other kit for the 55 truck using a squarebody chassis. The way it was planned out, zero consideration for a big block chevy. I have zero room for a fan. Beyond stupid! Front tires are way forward w/ the front fenders.
I had to work with the way my wheel centered in the wheel well by the cab placement I made some adjustments according to what I felt was best. I did have to modify my radiator also quite a bit but overall I’m liking the kit have use both with Ed and see if he has any suggestions edit easy chassis swap.
Have you tried to take the Tahoe tank out and turning it around so the fille is in the front you could run a filler up under the truck to the original filler neck
Not yet I need get it up on the lift with cab off and see what I can do.
Are you on Instagram
Yes, as of tonight, my daughter just made an account for me