wow!! i would love to drive that truck everyday. nice work!

 

Great work. That will be one sweet ride when its done.

 

Hell yeah! I love the old 67-72's. Especially the 4wd's. You don't see many of them running around. My dad and I built a 68 rcsb 2wd to pull my old Nova hot rod to the track. Just put together a bunch of junk and it ran damn good. It had a 307, saginaw 4 speed, & 4.10 rear. I bet you wouldn't have thought i'd build something with a stick would you? The Nova had a pro-shifted Muncie in it as well.
Keep it up man. That thing's a 3/4 ton with a 14 bolt isn't it?

BTW- you didn't happen to sneak me out a Jerico from the NASCAR shop did you?

 

That thing is looking sweet I can't wait to see it when it's finished.

 

HAha, we didn't use Jerico's, we used Tex Pretty much the same though Kinda noisy, but way fun to drive, and if I'd been able to "sneak" one out, it would have been for me

The truck is a 3/4 ton, but I believe the rear end is actual an Eaten 1ton dually rear end. Its got a 10 bolt round cover and is FF and its 4 inches narrower track then the front. I think it's one of those ran out of parts on the assembly line thing. Cuz that's what it came from the dealer with. My dad went to put new bearings in it one time and bought the 3/4 ton bearings for it and they fell right though the hubs to small . It dosen't have a posi or locker, but I guess thats what the 4x4 is for

 

I dunno what rear that is. More pics would be interesting. I've never seen anything like it in an old chevy truck. The 14 bolts definately different.

 

From what I have found I think it is an Eaton HO72 1 ton. They made a HO52 (3/4 ton) and HO72 (1 ton), the only differences is the brake hubs are bigger and narrower on the 72. Its got removable front pumpkin, like a 9" ford. Apparently they haven't made or used them since 72, so parts can be a little hard to come by, but it's supposed to be a stout rearend, 12.?? ring gear. It does have 4.11 gears though. Here's a couple pics

 

That's pretty cool. I've never seen nor heard of it and i've seen quite a few.

 

Any updates on the buildup?

 

Not recently, I had a supercharged TA come up I had to put a motor in, and I'm on vacation for the next week and a half, but will be back at it when I get home