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This truck is so old it is probably cheapest to buy a whole donor truck with a bad engine or wrecked or rusty body. Look at the frame of the donor and your truck, see if the holes are drilled on your truck and the frame is the same. If not, swap the body and engine from your truck to the donor. You'll need a pretty good hoist frame and slings to hoist your whole body off, and some way to push the frames around while the body is in the air. Use stacks of railroad tie or landscape timber (6x6) pieces (2' long) to protect yourself against slippage while you are under it. Hint- chainsaws cannot cut a tarred tie, use a sawzall. If the frame holes are predrilled and the frames are the same, you can think about just swapping axles, brackets, and transmission/transfer. If you do that, measure and match diagonals (front left -right rear etc) to make sure your truck runs square when done.
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