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If you have a 6 bolt flat flywheel, and it has been ground for the bigger clutch, you can use a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette clutch kit, all parts. I have a 1956 GMC civy 302 in one of mine and that is what fits perfectly! I asked on another forum about having 4 bolt flat flywheels made. I had...
The Chevys are similiar but quite different in many ways.
Chevy engine is 1.5" shorter, mounted 2" lower has different tranny and xfer case axles with differences, smaller U-joints and shafts....
For a Chevy a later full pressure 235 6 cyl is a nice conversion. I have that in 2 right now. The...
To me the most valuable cargo truck is as follows:
Short WB
Closed cab
All Steel cargo bed
Hole in roof and MG mount
Winch
Banjo (GM) axles
There is a guy in Vt who put a 3 or 4-53 detroit in a WW2 Chevy. It is pretty tight in there AND once you get away from the original bellhousing...
I am glad you all (no you-all) like them. They represent over 25 years of collecting and restoring, and restoring....
Most of mine have slightly newer engines that bolt right in. Some prople find that blastphamy, but I consider it wise. I drive my cargo CCKW 2-3000 miles a year. I want to get...
I have a collection of 8 CCKWs one of them being a LeRoi Kompressor late war open cab with winch.
1943 CCKW cargo with M32 MG mount (my baby. I have driven this one over 50,000 miles since I bought it 25 years ago)
1945 CCKW-Schiled-Bantam Crane (ABM-51 prototype)
1944 CCKW LeRoi
1942 CCKW...