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| | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 248 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 248 | Well I talked myself right into a new project lat weekend...helping one of my kinfolk rebuild a '58 Apache SWB Step Side. Not knowing very much about this year truck I naturally have a few questions for the elders...
1.) This truck has 5 bolt wheels on it, was that an option in '58 or am I dealing with someone else's half [censored]ed resto project?
2.) The engine and transmission are gone, but it had a V-8 in it at some point because the exhaust is still there, were they putting V-8's in them in '58?
3.) He also has a field full of other trucks that would make excellent donors for parts. A mid 80's one of them has a perfectly good 305 / auto trans in it. How difficult will it be to transplant that engine into the '58?
Oh well...enough for now, but I'm sure I'll be back with more questions later. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 319 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 319 | I'm no elder but I'll share some info about your second question. In a recent post about the 283, here is the list again from a site showing the available engines for chevy trucks in 1958. (Look under the engine serial number section) http://www.chevytrucks.org/mikesgarage/1958.htm
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 248 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 248 | Randy...thanks for the link. | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | Texmo, the '58s still had 6 lug, the change to 5 lug wasn't til '71.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 248 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 248 | That's what I thought, but I've been wrong before so I decided to ask...looks like I'm dealing with someone's leftovers. | | |
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