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76 C20 looks pretty solid, nice it stays in the family, cool it was your Grampa's too.

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My 81
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Looks good sittin low.

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Picked this one up last fall. Recovered the seats recently and freshened up the interior a bit, however, the seat covers need a little time in the sun to tighten up.

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sweeettt....I love the black on red style it has

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Now that's a good looking truck :gmc2:

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Was such a nice day I had to get the 85 out!

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stupid pc posted twice so sorry

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Hi guys new to the site gonna follow a post with my personal truck but this is the pride and enjoy of my father in law and my self's labor building his truck in this post but i wanted to reference this truck i saw earlier with some issues i saw with it, my problem with this truck is there's no drive shafts in it anyone can lift them this high with money and ordering parts but making the power train function right is where the real headache lies

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This is me standing next to my father in laws truck him and I built (btw I'm 5'9 for height reference) 1984 chevy k20 28 inches of lift (spring only) rear custom made perch drops 2 degree front & rear axle housing clocking for u-joint clearance 39.5x15x15 super swamper tsl 350 sbc .060 bore aggressive cam edelbrock rpm perform intake edelbrock 750cfm carb camel double hump ported and polished 200cc heads with 64cc combustion chambers 2.02 stainless steel intake valves 1.6 exhaust valves th350 built with b&m stage 1 shift kit gear driven 205 tcase gm corporate ten bolt front 3.73 gears gm corporate 12 bolt rear 3.73 with front and rear lockers solid rear drive shaft aftermarket gm slip front drive shaft.... just under 3k invested with purchase of truck....

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my 1982 chevy/gmc high sierra 350 sbc stock flat top pistons, stock cam, 462624 lightly ported heads with 2.02 intake and 1.6 exhaust valves, edlebrock rpm performer air gap intake, holley 750cfm vac secondaries, 1 3/4 long tube headers to 3 inch outlet, dual open 2 1/4 exhaust, th350 rebuilt stock, a older gear driven 203 tcase with part time kit installed and locking front hubs, rebuilt gm corporate 10 bolt front rebuilt gm corporate 12 bolt rear with gov lock both have 3.42 gears, 36x13.50x15 super swamper iroks om 15x10 chrome wheels. She is a work in progress my dad owned one when I was little when he passed away it was sold off with his estate I traded a 300 dollar s10 4x4 v6 for this truck last year and have slowly been putting it together to hopefully one day pass it on to one of my two sons unlike me losing my dads. I am only posting the picture of the front end rebuild to show oem color I am gonna repaint it back to but with a bit of metallic, truck was originally a 6.2 diesel but was a 350 when i got it.
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A few pics of some LWB squares that I had. The two wheeler was my daily driver back in 2000, and the 4x4 was my DD in 2006.

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Here is my 84. 6" lift with 35" BFGs.3/4 ton axles with 4.10 gears out of a 73.Rebuilt 355.

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just updating my pics lol
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Took my truck shopping, parked beside a new Dodge with a 4" lift on 35's. Man I love Chevy's.
http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...ps64462ba0.jpg

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Took my truck shopping, parked beside a new Dodge with a 4" lift on 35's. Man I love Chevy's.:chevy:
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Sorry double post...:confused:

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How are the 3.73 gears with the 40" tires?

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They work well, mostly due to having a big block and 4spd standard, an auto and small block won't be so great, done that before..learned a lesson that time. Glad I went from a 14.50" wide tire to a 13.50" width, helps a lot and steers a lot nicer too.

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Just wondering. I had 17-40/16.5s on my '66 chevy with 4.56 gears and was happy, but is has a 350 and sm420.

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You are right with the small block, I think overall 4:10's would work a bit better for me but to big of a chunk of cash to change what only has a little over 5,000 kms on them and thinking of upping the anti on the big block a bit in the future, the 530hp is good but think over 600 would be a bit better, plus I do one trip to an outdoor large car show once a year and it runs about 2,200 with the 38.5" tires so the 40"s will maybe be 2,100 rpm @ 60mph so considering that a bit. Trip is 350 miles one way.

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I bet the 16.5 tire would drag the small block down a bit to wouldn't it, a whole lot of tire there. I had a set of Pit bull's that were 35"/16.5 wide, wow was that a bit of tire. here is a pic of my last truck.
http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...ps31e4d686.jpg

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Our new 82 Silverado C10. Has just 91k original miles, was a garage kept Georgia truck until last month, now it's a garage kept SC truck! Will post pics soon.

It's gonna need a carb and valve seals and some minor stuff.

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Here's my truck. Just brought her into the family this past December. She's had a good life, but has sat for 2 1/2 years prior to coming home with me. I had been looking for a truck like this and got tired of seeing it sit there... to pretty to let her rust away to nothing.

She's a 1986 GMC C3500 Custom, 454 w/ Quadrajet, 4 speed manual, in bed kingpin (inverted 5th wheel setup, where the trailer has a 5th wheel and the pickup has the kingpin). She's cancer free, tho the clearcoat is starting to peel just a tad.

What's everyone think?

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I like , but please more pictures

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Pics of my 82 Silverado long bed. It's an all original garage kept truck. Hardly looks like its 32 years old! Everything is original except for the tires, seat cover and paint is about 20 years old.