Slammed Daily Driver 1971 Scout 800B 2WD

[71scout800b]

This all started with a trip to my preachers house where I saw a good looking scout with a great body sitting on a trailer. He paid $600 for two of them the 71 800b on the trailer and a RUST BUCKET 4x4 with a running motor. He said he was going to Frankenstein the two into one and i walked away. Two weeks a few phone calls, and $600 later she was on my tow dolly headed to the house. I have been wanting to build cool little daily driver something with good fuel mileage and the 2wd scout was the answer to my prayers. (My F350 4x4 gets about 13.5 mpgs of high dollar diesel.) With my little sister's totaled 1996 S-10 blazer in the back yard I had everything I needed.

I started by removing the top, first rust not bad but will need to cut a piece of 16ga to fill bottom edge. Hood is in great shape, one little ding and fill. Out with the seats and gonna need a few more square feet of 16ga. Jerked the motor and trans (stupid shifter), shift linkage kicked my and dang near broke my hand when cutting out the exhaust. Bruised bones heal pretty quick.

Inner fender well on passengers side will need some metal and I haven't got the outer fenders off to completely assess the damage. The neighbor next door has a killer shop with lots of tools and his plasma cutter is next on my list to make room for the donor motor and trans. I am going to be mounting everything a little high to accommodate her very low stance. I will have a finished ride height with just enough to skim over speed bumps about 4 inches. Speaking of which looking for a local to bend my I-beam and give me a few more inches in the front. After I get the I beam where I want and I find some rotor/hubs I am going to fabricate up some mounts to put the calipers off my donor truck in place. I ordered some prefabricated c-notches for the rear.Then with the donor truck's 10 bolt in place I will run the brake lines and have ABS! That is pretty much it for now. Trying to sell some parts and clean the house so my finance administrator (pregnant wife) will release some more funds.

Also looking for a local to whiddle my ecu and sensors down to what I need.

I will add photos tomorrow it's time to go home.

[Mark Ashford]

Originally Posted by 71scout800b

This all started with a trip to my preachers house where I saw a good looking scout with a great body sitting on a trailer. He paid $600 for two of them the 71 800b on the trailer and a RUST BUCKET 4x4 with a running motor. He said he was going to Frankenstein the two into one and i walked away. Two weeks a few phone calls, and $600 later she was on my tow dolly headed to the house. I have been wanting to build cool little daily driver something with good fuel mileage and the 2wd scout was the answer to my prayers. (My F350 4x4 gets about 13.5 mpgs of high dollar diesel.) With my little sister's totaled 1996 S-10 blazer in the back yard I had everything I needed.

I started by removing the top, first rust not bad but will need to cut a piece of 16ga to fill bottom edge. Hood is in great shape, one little ding and fill. Out with the seats and gonna need a few more square feet of 16ga. Jerked the motor and trans (stupid shifter), shift linkage kicked my and dang near broke my hand when cutting out the exhaust. Bruised bones heal pretty quick.

Inner fender well on passengers side will need some metal and I haven't got the outer fenders off to completely assess the damage. The neighbor next door has a killer shop with lots of tools and his plasma cutter is next on my list to make room for the donor motor and trans. I am going to be mounting everything a little high to accommodate her very low stance. I will have a finished ride height with just enough to skim over speed bumps about 4 inches. Speaking of which looking for a local to bend my I-beam and give me a few more inches in the front. After I get the I beam where I want and I find some rotor/hubs I am going to fabricate up some mounts to put the calipers off my donor truck in place. I ordered some prefabricated c-notches for the rear.Then with the donor truck's 10 bolt in place I will run the brake lines and have ABS! That is pretty much it for now. Trying to sell some parts and clean the house so my finance administrator (pregnant wife) will release some more funds.

Also looking for a local to whiddle my ecu and sensors down to what I need.

I will add photos tomorrow it's time to go home.

I'm commented in a couple of your other threads, but now that I read this one... well, with the bit of information about your blazer donor... a BODY SWAP is looking better and better. After you swap the drive train, mod the axle(s), improve the steering, brakes, booster/MC you still have a leaf-spring 50's technology rig with custom parts.

I'm a mild "keep it IH" guy.... but if I had your donor list..... well I'd have a hard time not melding the two.


Either way its your project and a cool one at that. Post up pics and keep the build going!!

[71scout800b]

Ok the front disk brakes are a BUST! I have a solution and it ain't gonna be easy, but I'm commited to this front end if at this point only out of SPITE!

I am haviing the drums lathed off at the local macine shop, then a disc with a lot of backspacing and 5x4.75 bolt pattern for my C6 wheels will be tigged on with an adapter bolted through the rotor for the studs. Yes a PAIN in the , but I will be satisfied in my enginuity and be the only guy with the stock I-beam and dics brakes, ABS at that. Machine shops are so scared of lawsuits I can't get anyone to tig the rotors to the hubs so I will be heading up to the the community college for this portion of the project. HA HA Uncle Sam and the VA are buying me a TIG welding class so I can build a custom truck. If that ain't a good use of my G.I. Bill I don't know what is?!

Also for thos who say WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY? THAT WILL COST A FORTUNE... Think about this most custom brake shops get $1,100.00 to take your axle and upgrade it to all modern parts so you can go right down to Auto Zone and buy replacment parts. That ain't what I want, I want an old school truck, with nothing extra outside of safety and a modern fuel efficent engine that I can drive for years. This is going to cost me about $400, I will learn a new skill, and I am the first to do something. I may even send one to a manufacture and they can have a base to build these for other guys in the future. I can't be the only guy in the world with a I-beam IH axle who wants disk brakes.

Bottomline is my head may be in the clouds, but I'm doing it MY way, for MY truck!

Build em' how you want em'!

[71scout800b]

The first few minutes of well now it's mine...

[71scout800b]

On the way home the top started lifting so I had to drive the rest of the way 35mph. I was a popular guy on that highway!

So here she is in her unmolested Stock form.

Rolled into the garage the shop-vacuuming and tear-down began.

10 years since she's been registered. The biggest pain I've found yet is the fiberglassed bed and bed caps. Seriously what was someone thinking!?

[71scout800b]

Anyone need a boat anchor? I'm gonna tear it apart and sell what is salvageable let me know what you need.

I love all the hidden little IH logos.

Bruised a bone and damaged a few ligaments in my hand to get the drive train out. Stupid Sawzall!

Anyone need a transmission?

[Mark Ashford]

Nice starting point

[71scout800b]

Originally Posted by 71scout800b

Ok the front disk brakes are a BUST! I have a solution and it ain't gonna be easy, but I'm commited to this front end if at this point only out of SPITE!

I am haviing the drums lathed off at the local macine shop, then a disc with a lot of backspacing and 5x4.75 bolt pattern for my C6 wheels will be tigged on with an adapter bolted through the rotor for the studs. Yes a PAIN in the , but I will be satisfied in my enginuity and be the only guy with the stock I-beam and dics brakes, ABS at that. Machine shops are so scared of lawsuits I can't get anyone to tig the rotors to the hubs so I will be heading up to the the community college for this portion of the project. HA HA Uncle Sam and the VA are buying me a TIG welding class so I can build a custom truck. If that ain't a good use of my G.I. Bill I don't know what is?!

Also for thos who say WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY? THAT WILL COST A FORTUNE... Think about this most custom brake shops get $1,100.00 to take your axle and upgrade it to all modern parts so you can go right down to Auto Zone and buy replacment parts. That ain't what I want, I want an old school truck, with nothing extra outside of safety and a modern fuel efficent engine that I can drive for years. This is going to cost me about $400, I will learn a new skill, and I am the first to do something. I may even send one to a manufacture and they can have a base to build these for other guys in the future. I can't be the only guy in the world with a I-beam IH axle who wants disk brakes.

Bottomline is my head may be in the clouds, but I'm doing it MY way, for MY truck!

Build em' how you want em'!

Yesterday I went to talk to my hotrod Guru and he threatened my life if he ever saw me scooting down the road in my Scout with the brake setup I had brought to him for final thoughts. He scares the hell out of me and has enough property to bury my corpse on and hide the truck forever, so I have decided to transplant the IFS from the blazer.

That being said the blazer has been wrecked a couple times and the frame is TOAST, burnt black, curled edges, smoking toast. I got the front clip off this morning after seeing the wife off to work, way too early. Check out what I saw when I got back in from working on the Blazer. Oops!

So here I go down this road if cutting and welding a front end off one onto another. The frame in front of the suspension is bent to , but the carnage never touched the tires so the upper and lower arms look good.


Question Time: Do I cut the frame of the blazer a couple feet behind the cab and try to meld the two together? Do I take every piece and mount off the blazer and weld it all to the Scout? What is the right way to do this? If I meld the two how do I get things to match up on the front? I know I am going to be fabricating and fabricating but as much help as possible would be great!

[tanof]

If the wheelbase is close, I would just use the Blazer frame.

[guidolyons]

Originally Posted by 71scout800b

Yesterday I went to talk to my hotrod Guru and he threatened my life if he ever saw me scooting down the road in my Scout with the brake setup I had brought to him for final thoughts. He scares the hell out of me and has enough property to bury my corpse on and hide the truck forever, so I have decided to transplant the IFS from the blazer.

That being said the blazer has been wrecked a couple times and the frame is TOAST, burnt black, curled edges, smoking toast. I got the front clip off this morning after seeing the wife off to work, way too early. Check out what I saw when I got back in from working on the Blazer. Oops!

So here I go down this road if cutting and welding a front end off one onto another. The frame in front of the suspension is bent to , but the carnage never touched the tires so the upper and lower arms look good.

Question Time: Do I cut the frame of the blazer a couple feet behind the cab and try to meld the two together? Do I take every piece and mount off the blazer and weld it all to the Scout? What is the right way to do this? If I meld the two how do I get things to match up on the front? I know I am going to be fabricating and fabricating but as much help as possible would be great!

Most guys wouldn't admit to wearing mismatched shoes, much less taking a pic and posting it for all the world to see Thanks for the chuckle.

How bad is the S-10 frame bent/smashed/charred toast? Just the front bits ahead of the IFS? You'll probably cut that part off anyway. If you are swapping the IFS, then you will definitely want to keep the section of the frame that has all the mounts for the A-arms, etc.

Apparently, the S-10 frame is about the same width:

INTERNATROLET's slammed Scout w/ S-10 front IFS: http://www.justih.org/Binder-Bench/s...ad.php?t=11886