Asking For Help From The Dually Gods Here

Hello everyone, i have a simple question. What's involved in getting an old old body c30 dually to lay out possibly on semis? I have had the perfect project truck insert fall in my lap this morning. An 86 chevy with a fairly new rebuilt 454. Plenty of real patina going on. Its running but has been sitting for years. Hoping i can get it home this weekend. If bagging it is as straight forward as i hope i may be sidelining my ranger project yet again to have a cruiser for this summer. Thank you all who respond

A lot depends on your relative term of "lay out" and "semis" haha.

I have a c30, SRW.

If you are just laying frame on a wheel no taller than 30", its a brease. drop spindles, arms, bag mount. Narrow rear end, or modify dually fenders to accomidate.

My personal truck runs a 305-35-24 up front, its about 33.5" OD. When you get to this size tire, you start to have all sorts of other problems as well. Steering, hood clearance, and firewall clearance will be the first ones to get ya.

I swapped a dropmember into mine, converted to power rack and pinion steering, made new control arms that kept the camber at less than 1 degree change from layed out to lifted, and scooted the track width forward away from the firewall. so now its able to lay out on a 33.5 tire, turn lock to lock when layed out, no need to modify the firewall, or the hood.

The trucks are not hard, but the technology under the hood is dinosaur like, so in my opinion, swaping out the right stuff makes if feel and handle like a new truck.


Taylor

I guess im just fishing for info to help me come up with a game plan. I KNOW its gotta lay frame and be on bags. Semis wont be inthe budget yet but based on info im seeing i will probably look for a shaven set of 22's. I read somewhere a long time ago that a rear from a cab/chassis or box truck is narower... Any trueth to that? Without getting into the 2or4 link debate, ive seen in posts duallys done both ways... So could i go economically the cheapo route? Are the dropmembers and arms the same as a c10?

check out duallyscene.com, they have several guys who have done it and are currently doing it that could assist you.

Thanks, I found duallyscene a few days ago. Found a ton of answers