“CrewCad” Resto /Newstalgia 95 c3500 454 CCLB Dually thread.

[Onizukachan]

Mine had AC, that's all I needed to be happy.

That’s a bloody necessity in the desert. Unless you only drive at night! I stopped using mine around early December, amd started using again in February!


I’ve been looking for some thing “elegant” but not ornate or too street rod, now that I have chrome door pulls.

edit. Amd something that doesn’t remind me of the cranks in grandpas squarebody. Something kind of like this?

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[Onizukachan]

my first time carpeting a box, didn’t come out too bad. While I had it apart, I made sure to re-seal the box.

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[Supercharged111]

That’s a bloody necessity in the desert. Unless you only drive at night! I stopped using mine around early December, amd started using again in February!


I’ve been looking for some thing “elegant” but not ornate or too street rod, now that I have chrome door pulls.

edit. Amd something that doesn’t remind me of the cranks in grandpas squarebody. Something kind of like this?

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Can you find that with a not chrome wheel? I'm envisioning it being covered in fingerprints and schmoo.

 

[Onizukachan]

I’ve seen ivory, but frankly never had a problem keeping chrome pulls etc clean in my cars. They’re actually easier than textured plastics, imo.

 

[Onizukachan]

So I finally found a ball mount that would work with a flip up plate. I needed at least 9.5 from hitch pin to the ball amd preferably 10”, and most of the standard ones are about 8.5 from what I measured. Fine if doing a drop, but doesn’t work when doing a rise as the plate is already occupying that space!

it required me relocating the camera offset to the side of the plate rather than where the PO had the first one, and where I installed mine, ie centered up otherwise there still was no practically clearance to the ball.

it’s the one pictured here but set up as a rise, ie the movable part on top with ball on top. that’s right about 10” out which is what I needed. Not much rise actually needed to get the standard 18-19” once I put 35lbs of air in the helper bags, would have been fine with a 2“ drop flipped or even a 1”drop flipped but they weren’t long enough.

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Actual pics tomorrow sorry, it’s too late and too dark tonight


edit: oh and I cut the welds and relocated the 7 pin connector from hanging below the roll pan where it was subject to damage from backing into a curb or stoppie block, to also behind the plate. the bracket was already bent from someone having done just that so better to get it mounted somewhere safer while I was docking around with stuff. Also found the 4 pin connector, not that it matters as I have a 7 pin to 4 pin adapter.
amd I took out the guide and tube for the spare tire mount as I have no spare 22” and if I did I wouldn’t be hanging it under the bed! That gave me the room needed to mount the 7 pin next to the reciever and thus behind the plate too.

 

[someotherguy]

To solve the roll pan hitch/ball mount issue I just used a flip-down plate bracket scavenged from a car that had the gas filler behind the plate (note the "unleaded fuel only" stamping on it) - a couple scraps of thin bar stock welded to the hinge of the bracket, couple holes drilled, now can bolt it to the roll pan that was designed for a flip-up bracket. That was a Sir Michael's pan (man I miss that stuff; top quality) and because of how the plate box was designed into the pan, there wasn't room to drill holes in the bottom to simply bolt the bracket on at the bottom. With this setup, a straight-out or even a lift ball mount works great with no plate interference.

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Richard

 

[Onizukachan]

@someotherguy Hahhahaha, I have the same Sir Michaels pan!
matter of fact I have that same flip plate!
(and the same name! Lol)
I modified my flip up last Thursday by cutting the center bulge out to clear the reciever so I can run a rubber cover on it and not have it stick out at an awkward angle And I trimmed and bent back 90 degrees the middle of the resulting “m” shaped bracket to clear the top of the reciever tube.

I already have a slotted piece of 1/8” steel across the bottom two holes as the mount for the camera bracket and that ties it back together when a plate is on it


I had a similar thought about flipping it down if I couldn’t find a hitch that let me keep the flip up but I would have had to relocate the camera off the plate and it’s too darn useful to lose to me.


here was my alternative solution To the same dilemma. The camera can also rotate 90degrees so it can face back and be usable whether the plate is up Or down.

the adjustable mount was under $50, so not much more than a decent brand static drop.

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Hope between our two examples it helps someone in the future!

 

[someotherguy]

That adjustable hitch looks like a curb-catcher, sir!

Richard

 

[Onizukachan]

That’s a fair point of concern.

It’s not as far down as the pic makes it look. About even with the bottom of the reciever frame which is only about 1/2” below the pan.
if it’s on, the truck would actually be aired up 1-2” to get the tires untucked out of the fenders (35psi instead of 5psi) , so I suppose you could Say it’s actually higher than the bottom of the pan is when not in “tow mode”
And if the truck was lower, you’d raise it higher giving back ground clearance.
if that makes sense?

 

[Onizukachan]

What I’d really like but no one yet makes is a side swing license plate…

Though the ultimate solution would probably be a flush mount camera in the pan and a reciever mount plate holder.