Well here is my new donor truck. As far as I know no one has ever swapped the grills of an early 2nd gen to a later model. Well as a result of a fender bender I decided to do the swap. As I quickly found out it was more labor intensive than I imagined. As a result ive decided to swap the whole front end, right down to the sub frame. I'll show my progress as I go and hopefully yall can offer input. Btw can someone tell me how to better post my pictures? Maybe in the body of the post?

 

edited...

 

 

dangit now its just showing the red x

 

Or use photobucket..

 

Ok now I got it.

here is my truck mostly stripped

As you can see I had to drill out every spot weld...not very fun

This is my weapon of choice, cobalt bits make life easier

These parts are off the 94'....quite a face lift

Drilling that dang sub frame

Finally got it off



More progress to come...BTW I am calling this "Operation Face-lift"

 

thats fun. ive been there.

have fun welding!!

 

Im about to start the tack welding? Muddog have you done this swap, can you offer any advice?

 

why..?? not saying bad/dumb idea or whatever, go for it. cool cool... but why?? i just, don't get the point...

If i was going through all that, i'd custom make my own grill, cost more, but it'd be B.A. Then if i was gonna cut all that, i'd just cut it all up, and do tube frame from firewall to bumper(to support fenders/grill).