I was tired of the hacked up gray ranger i had so i went to the dark side and bought a gmc, but now that i blew up the smallblock and im tired of mudding with a 4spd stick i came up with a great idea, putting a 460 under the hood of a gm product.

My question is my 2wd c6 is out of a 72 torino and it did not come with a driveshaft, are the splines the same from car/truck?

Right now the plan is a mild 460,c6 and a divorced 205 going to a set of 2.5ton gmc style axles on tractor tires about 42-44 inches tall, would have went with toploaders but gmcs are cheaper and i wanna run the least amount of lift as possible

here is a short vid of it from this past season, nothing fancy just a 6" lift and some used 35s on a 14bolt rear, 44 front.

YouTube - Chevy mud truck attacking a log ladder

 

everything i found points to 31 splines on all of the c-6 slip yokes.

and all i can say is right the **** on!!!!!! i'd love to see a bbf in a chevy mudder. i always wanted to do that to a chevelle or nova just to **** people off. i'm tired of seeing sbc's in everything. be sure to post pics and videos.

 

there was a late 70's vete here a few years back with a 460 and top loader 4 speed in it. it was built purposely to pee off he chevy in old ford folks.
it actually would walk all over the 427 vets on the race track

 

Im going to call this build "the ultimate failboat"


that is all...

 

Thats ok, im gonna build it anyway

 

i think you should. if ya got the engine and trans already, why waste money on a chubby that is only gonna blow up again.

 

Right now my 460 is just a longblock but once im back at home (i work a traveling job) ill start tearing it down and take/post some pictures.

 

I hate engine swaps between makes. It seems like there are always goofy problems that will always plague you.

IE...
oil pan - sump placement in relation to crossmembers
radiator hose - most Chebbys have opposite top/bottom hose placement from Fords.


this is just two small issues that I could come up with after working 16hrs last night. Im sure Ill come up with more. Besides are 77.5-79 F250s that hard to find in your area?

 

I live in the land of rust, looked at a lot of 70s fords before i got that gmc, fords were either a skeleton held together with rust or they wanted an arm and a leg for it.

 

Locally I could probably count how many 70s ford 4x4s running around on my fingers and not even need to take my shoes off. and I can only think of 1 F250 in the years you mentioned rest are F150s. there are a few more 2wd but not even a lot of those.

 

there is a simple way to find old fords. i seriously find them all over without even trying. i guess it all depends where you live, but anywhere there is a farm house there is almost certainly always a 70's ford 3/4 ton on the property somewhere. there are a couple within a stones throw of me that i need to go check out to see what they have for running gear cause me needs a d60 for the bronco. and remember, just because there isn't a for sale sign on it doesn't mean ****. it never hurts to ask, most will sell an old truck just to get something more than scrap price out of it.

 

within a 10 mile distance of me, i know of only 7 70's ford pickups. 2 150 2 wheel drives, 4 250's, and 1 350 dually with a wrecker body on it.

and 3 of the f-250's are mine

 

Dan that is the problem, when scrap went up to almost $200/ton a LOT of those got crushed. Local junk yard had 20+ 70s fords (and even more chevs and some dodges) he has zero now. in 1 shot he crushed around 1000 vehicles. The scrappers know the same thing you do and have been hitting farms up for any and all metal including old cars. I know of one farmer that had every car he had ever bought sitting out in the fence row, some scrapper came in and offered him $10k and the farmer took the money. He had cars clear back into the 40s sitting out there. Now nothing but a nice shiney new fence.

I know the above mentioned junk yard owner fairly well. and when he crushed those cars HIS take after paying the crusher and the trucking was almost $400k

 

around me they are all still sitting on farms, but the yards did cash in. the prices still got inflated from it though. i just saw an old rusty highboy on c/l for $5k. i don't think i'd pay 5k for a highboy unless it had some serious potential. you used to be able to pick up good runners for a grand or less.

 

i saw people driving trucks into the scrap yards, pulling the plates off the trucks, pocketing the 6-7 hundred bucks they were getting, and getting in the wifes car to go home, cause the scrap price on said trucks was more than they were worth.
i also saw at least a dozen 60's John Deere dozer's brought in for the $2000 they brought over the scales.
70's and 80's tandem dump trucks were paying on average $2800. in one week, the local scrap yard took in over 50 trucks besides the dozer's and old excavators.
i ran an old 235 cat over the scales. it ran, but the boss said $10,000 to get rid of it or $5000 to fix it up was a no brainer.