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[blazin_blazer]

i've found a 63 chevy fulltime 4x4 2500, drum 8 lug front&rear??, i6, 4speed, transfer?? , is this truck worth anything other than motor/trans/transfer? is it sm465/np205? anything special? is it usual d60/d44f? it started life as a snowplow!

 

[YZEATER]

they didn't start making open knuckle d60's till 77. that should be a d44.

 

[b454rat]

Straight 6, SM 420, Rockwell t-case, closed knuckle 44, Eaton rear (possibly Dana 60), good truck to plow with but nothing to make money off of. Inless parts where changed over the years...

 

[Randy92782]

think it has the tranny i wanted a few years ago. lower 1st gear if i remember correctly. not sure if it was strong but i just wanted it for the lower 1st and try and figure out if it had a 205 behind it

 

[Bent77]

Would be a 10 spline 205, correct? Nothing special as the rat said.

 

[blazin_blazer]

uhhh

Would be a 10 spline 205, correct? Nothing special as the rat said.

rat just said it was a rockwell transfercase,...i think its all stock, are the closed knuckle d44 better than open, is it complertly closed off like d50? keep muck out of tubes? i'm pretty shure it a d60 rear. dana pattern..and a PIG!anywho! are the sm420/rockwellcase as indestructible as sm465/np205?

 

[YZEATER]

you'd be better off to wait for at least a 73 and up truck. alot easy to work with.

 

[Bent77]

my bad

 

[b454rat]

If the price is right then get it. I would like to have another truck that year, but already have too much going on to get another project. But 1 tons will bolt up, no need for spring mounts. As for the t-case and stuff, not sure how strong, but the tranny was pretty much the same as in the bigger trucks, C60 and 70s....

 

[pauly383]

I have always wanted a GMC truck of that vintage , with a Chevy front clip . The GMC had a 305 V6 , looked like a little 409 , so damn cute when he popped the hood

 

[Big Blzn]

Straight 6, SM 420, Rockwell t-case, closed knuckle 44, Eaton rear (possibly Dana 60), good truck to plow with but nothing to make money off of. Inless parts where changed over the years...

I don't really have a lot of expertise on a lot of mechanical things such as trannys but I thought I read in Peterson's 4wheel and offroad that the SM420 was a very good and strong t-case and getting harder and harder to find? Am I wrong or what?

 

[pauly383]

SM420 is a strong tranny for the era it came from , it just got superceded by the SM465 . So many rigs ran it , I even have a 2wd version at home .

 

[Randy92782]

think you mean the SM420 is a tranny but i have no idea on the subject of structural integrity

 

[Big Blzn]

think you mean the SM420 is a tranny but i have no idea on the subject of structural integrity

Yes. That is what I meant since I was thinking with my a$$/brain.