If you are following me over on social media, than this may be old news, but wanted to let you guys know I tested the 'touring' part of pro-touring. I put around 800 miles on C10CJ this past weekend. Truck drove very well. Cruises down the highway at 75 mph with ease and got around 17 mpg overall across the 800 miles. The only issues I had were interior related and the interior is still something I need to tackle. The issues were basically too much wind noise due to leaking windows. I really need to replace the vent window seals and all the other window seals. I did the door seals earlier and that just showed me where the next problem was (which I expected). So here's a little photo journal of the trip.
The trip was to my Dad's place in the black hills. The route was 380 miles each way, straight up I-25 from Denver then cutting across Wyoming on US 18/20 to US 85, then on US 18 again into SD over to SD Hwy 79 up to Hermosa then towards Keystone no SD Hwy 40. Fairly easy drive with elevation reaching as high as 6100 ft then down to ~3500 ft at Dad's place.
Shot on the drive up, somewhere on I-25
Parked in my Dad's buddy's shop. That dark grey C10 got some updates I installed over the weekend.
The upgrades were installing a new throttle/TV cable setup. He's been having trouble getting his truck to shift in to OD and one thing I found was the TV cable wasn't quite right.
So I fab'd a bracket to bolt to the non-standard throttle on that giant Holley Ultra XP carb (950 cfm feeding a 555 cu in BBC built by Pat Musi)
The final setup.
