just an old truck I got in a trade

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Originally Posted by silverbear

It's funny how "I just need to fix this" turns into a full restoration. Your truck looked pretty good to start with and judging by the last few pics, I think it will be sweet when you are finished. Please keep the pics coming.

Thanks silverbear.
Yea my wife was about ready to kill me when I took it down to the bare frame lol. Oh well everything will be new or rebuilt when its back together again.

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What im working on tonite.
getting my front calipers and pads mounted up.
In the process.... I went to take off the wheels and noticed they didnt turn when I jacked the fron up. Well apparently the wheels hit the lower a arms and I failed to notice it when I mountes the wheels on the other day. Talked to a couple people who have done the 2 1/2 drop spindles and they say it is pretty common. So ill be doing some grinding on the a arms to clear the rims. Wish I would have known that before I painted the a arms and put them back on the frame though.
Oh and the parts house give me the wrong brake lines for the front lol

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Originally Posted by jrfonte

Thanks silverbear.
Yea my wife was about ready to kill me when I took it down to the bare frame lol. Oh well everything will be new or rebuilt when its back together again.

I started out just replacing a rusted out brake line. During that process i broke the fuel line due to rust. Then learned most of my truck was rust. So... almost a year and a half later I finally start driving it. I'm not finished by a long shot but at least it's usable and has alot less rust.

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Lol I hear that. This one started because of a oil dipstick lmao

Apparently the spell check on my smart phone isnt so smart I just noticed half of the words are misspelled in most of my post.

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Couple pics

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Few more

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Lot of work making these shine.
bam lol
Say thanks to my buddy Clayton for the idea to do it after I seen his. He has the platinium c10 project on here.

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Pulled the engine apart because someone was careless and put a long dipstick in a short tube.
every single set of lifters the cross bar was installed upside down.

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The cylinders wont hone out. Tried to but no luck

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The lobe on the cam for the fuel pump push rod is gone.
crank has 666 stamped as the casting number hmm.. not sure if I want to reuse it or not

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Didnt really care for the unworked runners in the heads. Cant believe aomeone would just buy heads and slap them on . Still have work to do on them

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Getting a lil closer but still several more hours left on them

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Got frame down to nothing

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Didnt get a pic of the frame all cleaned up from old paint and rust down to bare metal. Just forgot about a pic I was busy looked like rain.
brought my front end pieces to work had the guys blast them for me. Then sprayed them at the house.
all my parts all cleaned up nice n pretty

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Got new a arm bushings installed. Pain in the ass.
front cross member installed onto frame and a arms mounted but not tightened down

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New ball joints done and new rubber stops on control arms
New lines ran. And a couple other lil things

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Some work on the cab.both sides
Cut the old out welded new in.
shaved some off while I was there

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Its like christmas in the summer lol. I like it when the brown truck brings gifts

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What to do with this.....?

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Maybe some disc breaks. Since the p.o. swapped in the 12 bolt axle and it has the 2 3/4 shoes on it for the hd brakes and the truck has jb3 brake system on the rest of it.

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Turned out pretty good.
I thought the grease fittings would help keep it quiet later on

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Looks like at some point the pinion got into the carrier at some time