what did I get myself into?

[moondawg]

I bought this 73 camper special 2X4 with a "rebuit" 350. It's lifted. Don't knowhow much with 37s. They have two pieces of square tubing stacked on top one another as lifting blocks out back(9 leaves). Out front they have 6 in C channel welded to the A arms with an after market rack and pinion bolted to the crpssmember. You'll see how they got that to work. Where the hell do I go from here? I'm at a loss I even contemplated parting it out. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[moondawg]

Here's some more

 

[Skweegle89]

lol that's Purdy. Id be afraid to drive that across the street.

 

[mohawkben]

Wow...just wow..sorry best of luck..that's some award winning p.o tearing stuff up there

 

[Skweegle89]

You should move this to the Previous Owners Suck page lol. I don't know where you would even start. Is the body in good enough shape that you could swap it if you found a deal on a good frame?

 

[skysurfer]

They really put the "special" in Camper Special. Why did you buy it?

 

[J Knight]

It looks fixable to me. the only frame damage I see is the notch for the intermediate shaft. The real question is do you want to keep it lifted after its fixed or stock height?

 

[MadOgre]

Yep need to rip it all out and start over by welding in that notched frame .

 

[bucket]

Just when you think you've seen everything...

 

[MadOgre]

I aint seen that before! LOL now I have LOL

 

[moondawg]

I know right. The power steering works great though, I would never have noticed a problem if I didn't take a look. Initially I was really surprised at how responsive the steering is for being so big with such large rolling stock.

 

[moondawg]

The wife fell In love with the lift. My father inlaw has a chevy graveyard and offered to help turn it into a 4X4 and maybe I would put a lift on after. Everything he has is from three 3/4 ton suburbans 79 to 91. I forget the other one.

 

[MadOgre]

I was thinking maybe you could use those rear lift blocks to hang some extra tools or something lol.

Well you could just swap it over to a 4x4 frame.

Or you could fix up that frame and install the front hangers and shackle mounts from one of those Burbs. It can be done guys have done it before.

I cant wrap my head around that. That's an awfull lot of work to do it all wrong!

 

[MadOgre]

Its probably easier swapping over to a 4x4 frame if you can find one

 

[moondawg]

You think maybe I could use one of those suburban frames it's close to the same length. The rear bumper might not fit but I would use it anyway