I have 2 of them here one with working flat bed dump. The one with bed has hauled a million ton flag stone.It has had a hard life. I bought it because of the bed in 81 I thing. But it did haul a good amount of grain for me. I think we kept it wound up to tight,cause it seemed to eat engines. It has big howl in the rear end from bearings being lose sometime in its life. Because 3 different drives in different comditions. But only one of them was a new built as a truck engine.
The original to me engine was 289 V8 that was from as mass rebuilder and was a year or 2 old. Then a junk yard 350 the the built 350 and finally a GMC V6 305 from junk truck. Changed the motor mounts and drive line to put the V6 in the other all just bolted up.
From what I have been told Chevy big blocks would bolt right in as well. So a engine transmission combo from any Chevy/GMC pickup until the new series engines in late 90 should drop right in.
The one truck has a set wheels that are tubeless 7 x 22.5 I think ,they look very narrow anyway. I could always find 9 x 20 easier and mounted myself on the super widow maker 3 piece wheels. Never had one let go but if no cage used a clip on chuck and a lot of log chain to tie it up.
I have been around a number of other Chevy/GMC 50,60, and 6500 trucks 1960 and newer all 4 speeds were the same as pickup trucks the 5 speeds were little bigger. None of them were big on power in my book. The 292 straight 6 was not that much less than a 350 or 366.
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have parts but you need to come pull them yourselfs.
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