1.22.12 PANCAKE TIME AT RANCHO FUNK

All cleaned up and ready for a pancake.

Clean metal. Fifty years of mucky, tar, and miscellaneous road rash is gone. It's pancake time.

We're fixin' to remove an inch and a half of height by horizontally sectioning the center. A pancake, also known as sectioning. The net result will raise the ground clearance using a period ol’ school technique, bringing the lowest part of the cross-member even with the lower frame rails.

A fabrication first for yours truly, so I’m bringing in some real talent to do the hard part.

We’ll also be tubbing the front fenders using modified trailer fenders, shaving the firewall, and tidying up factory welds.

The Steering box will need to be raised an inch and a half to compensate for the pancake.

We’ll be remounting the cross member an inch forward to perfectly center the front wheels in the wells.

The result will be a truck that can be dropped and driven 3-4 inches lower.

Anyone can stroke a check. This truck will be built, not bought. Sweat equity.

The fabrication fun begins this weekend. Breaking out the tape measures and the sharpies and firing up the angle grinder and cutoff wheel.

Sparks will be Flynn’ at Rancho Funk. Above is the before shot looking at the forward edge.

With any luck, the modified frame will look something like this rear side view of a modified C10 cross-member.

Stay under.