"The Ayatollah of Rusty Hole'a 1987 SWB 6.0 4L80E

[noonzor]

sweet progress, your makin me feel like a slacker!

[Gordonr1973]

Haha....Kyle you sent me a msg via kijiji about my C10 parts, I do have lower A Arms, my uppers I have are rusted through...but too cold to pull them off my parts truck right now.

[Gordonr1973]

Had new power steering lines made today, worked out good as they are much shorter and out of the way now.

[Gordonr1973]

Had a new brake splitter made by Gregg's in Edmonton, this is a stainless steel braided line that is covered with red something or other to meet DOT laws...

But Gregg's can build a whole brake line system for you without joints in some spots where my 'LMC Stainless Steel line kit' has joints...plus this stuff can come with brackets to hold it's shape around multiple corners & angles....next project I'm going to use this stuff for sure because I hate hard lines!

[noonzor]

Originally Posted by Gordonr1973

Haha....Kyle you sent me a msg via kijiji about my C10 parts, I do have lower A Arms, my uppers I have are rusted through...but too cold to pull them off my parts truck right now.

haha thats hilarious!! yeah i think im going to run some stock arms and coil spring suspension for a while. switch to the coil-overs later on.

[East End K5]

Dude, this truck is a machine! Which is a reflection of you....good job brother!

[Gmchighsierra85]

[QUOTE=Gordonr1973;4688725]The firewall is good.

It was parked nose down for a year or two on a very steep driveway before I bought it so I think thats why there was lots of rust due to a leaky windshield.

Anyways, things are a bit different up here as most cabs are going to be rusty to some degree --- rust-free 30 year old anything is hard to find!!

thats 100% true man, if u wanna c how bad a canadian truck like urs can get< have a look at mine sometime http://www.cardomain.com/ride/320043...00-regular-cab

[notyo_cheez]

Found a place on a web search that fabs replacement cabs and body panels for all the classic Chevy trucks, in fiberglass. At around $5000 US. You have to pick it up, they won't ship it period. My pockets ain't that deep.

Then again anyone with a MIG rig, BFH and patience can fix anything. It's a little rusty, so what?

[Devillusion]

Originally Posted by Gordonr1973

Had a new brake splitter made by Gregg's in Edmonton, this is a stainless steel braided line that is covered with red something or other to meet DOT laws...

But Gregg's can build a whole brake line system for you without joints in some spots where my 'LMC Stainless Steel line kit' has joints...plus this stuff can come with brackets to hold it's shape around multiple corners & angles....next project I'm going to use this stuff for sure because I hate hard lines!

Does he have a website and pricing? I need a full custom set for my trail rig (K5) and the crew shorts....

[73gmc454]

Wow you have made some real progress since the last time I checked it out everything looks great you'll be riding before ya know it ,

[Gordonr1973]

Originally Posted by Devillusion

Does he have a website and pricing? I need a full custom set for my trail rig (K5) and the crew shorts....

http://www.greggdistributors.ca/home.htm

It's about $7 / foot plus ends plus labor...I will have some pics over the weekend as my current hardlines did not match up with the new brake booster so I had them do new lines up to the rear axle...might change those as well.

Originally Posted by 73gmc454

Wow you have made some real progress since the last time I checked it out everything looks great you'll be riding before ya know it ,

Thanks! I wish it was done already!!

[quote=Gmchighsierra85;5143829]

Originally Posted by Gordonr1973

The firewall is good.

thats 100% true man, if u wanna c how bad a canadian truck like urs can get< have a look at mine sometime http://www.cardomain.com/ride/320043...00-regular-cab

Yeah they can get rusty, but it is true that anything can be cut out and new stuff welded in.

[Gordonr1973]

Thanks everyone one else for checking in...been busy with work and trying to find replacement connectors for the ones that pulled off the PSI harness...not too happy with their customer service so I will be using Hayes Performance for the wiring on my next project.

[hick]

Gordon,

Whats the cost of that brake line /foot and do you remember what its call. Just so i don't sound like a retard when i walk in haha

So its basically just SS braided line they can cut to custom length and put ends on?

[shenk10]

truck looks great, but unhappy with PSI? I thought all their harnesses were brand new, and only heard good things about them. If you don't mind me asking what was the problem? I'm assuming something with the connectors?

[mooseknuckles]

I'm a little curious too....since I just bought a harness from PSI!

[Gordonr1973]

Originally Posted by shenk10

truck looks great, but unhappy with PSI? I thought all their harnesses were brand new, and only heard good things about them. If you don't mind me asking what was the problem? I'm assuming something with the connectors?

Originally Posted by mooseknuckles

I'm a little curious too....since I just bought a harness from PSI!

The lengths are off, some wires like the fuel injector connectors are way too short, some wires like the driver's front to the MAF and sensors in the front are way too long. I'm actually glad that the big ugly plastic motor covers will hide this sh*t because it looks sloppy to me.

I had 2 fuel injector connectors pull off the harness, I emailed & called Jon on Dec 6th & he promised to send two replacements...they never showed up, I emailed again on January 11th asking him to FedEx them and I would pay the FedEx charges, he said sure but I never received them either....I sent him another email this week saying I found two connectors locally (cost me $75 for two!!!) and he replies with an email sounding like he's all for customer service etc etc....and asking what he can do to make this right....Well, all I really ever wanted was the two pigtails that pulled off. He promised to send them and he never did...so if I drop a LS motor into my Firebird this fall, I'm buying a harness elsewhere. Period.

Hopefully the harnesses you bought were actually made to fit a C10 b/c mine was off.

[Gordonr1973]

Originally Posted by hick

Gordon,

Whats the cost of that brake line /foot and do you remember what its call. Just so i don't sound like a retard when i walk in haha

So its basically just SS braided line they can cut to custom length and put ends on?

Yeah just go into the Eaton hose shop just next door to the east of the Gregg's building (they are the same company really) and ask to see the hose...you can get it red, green, clear, silver, black, and I think blue.

They are really nice in there so ask any questions you want....just take in samples of your connectors so they can put ends on that will match your system where ever you are connecting to.

It was $7 / foot plus ends plus labour to do it up.

[Gordonr1973]

Here's some pics of my lines I got in today....will trim the heater hoses once the fenders are on:

[Gordonr1973]

Here's a not so great pic of the excess wires that are folded up to keep them off the headers:

[Gordonr1973]

And here's a pic of the CPP brake booster that I got with my brakes, nice unit but in NO WAY is a straight bolt-on...I have to try to figure out a way to make it work...I made the black brackets behind the booster tabs that would normally bolt to the cab front. I thought that would work but the rest of the bolts are no too short to bolt the thing to the cab.

I looked up the part number and it is a booster actually made to fit 65-67 Chev trucks?? Funny thing is when you select the part to fit a 73-87 chev truck, CPP 's website just sent me to the same booster that I was sent....

I don't know what to think about that one!! That's the kind of day I'm having...

[noonzor]

did you call cpp about it? may be something they can fix up for you, unless it is supposed to be the same booster... and... i dunno. cant see that being the case though.

aside from that everything looks good.

[renegade6]

The booster definitely looks different from the ones that go on those years of trucks.

[Gordonr1973]

Yeah guys, I'm going to have to check on this because I tried to fab up new brackets today to get it to stay on and the whole booster is tipped to the front.

I don't see how this could be correct for this truck unless they could provide different brackets to bolt onto the rear of the unit (b/c the curent rear bracket on it just bolts on) and that might do the trick...if I have to I will build my own brackets to do this but I will need a week to do it....more delays :-(

[Greenlee]

How's it going? Got any new pics?
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[Gordonr1973]

It's going slow....just got home from overseas so was back at it this weekend.

More wiring, and more and more. And got my brake lines fabbed up & installed.

Actually, getting close to be able to test start the truck...probably within a week or 10 days if I get a chance at night to work on it.

Because the Painless harness wires were SO LONG in the engine compartment (they were almost 2 times the length of the truck), I just connected them pretty much as is for the test-fire and once the engine runs good, I will trim the wires to fit where ever I run them for length so it will be a lot neater later on, with loom as well.

I can't say how much I hate the Painless kit when connecting it into the LS harness...won't be buying any more of their products after this build.